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How To Blow Up A Pipeline (Sexy)

If you’re planning on wearing this costume — call me
If you’re planning on wearing this costume — call me Image: Gizmodo (Photos: Shutterstock, Verso Books)

In tandem with the Soup Protests, we’ve got our next suggestion: go as the embodiment of Andreas Malm’s badass manifesto on the virtues of escalating climate protest tactics. There’s less visual splash to work with than the previous suggestion, but a lot more rhetoric to work with. (You could probably technically make any of these costumes sexy—we just think this Malm’s book is the sexiest.)

If you’ve got a plain red top and are a fan of DIY, the book’s cover could be a great inspiration. Making some barbed wire and letters for the book’s title with some printer paper could be a fun way to spend a cozy fall afternoon before you head out to Trick-or-Treat (if you live near an oil and gas project, we won’t ask where you’re going after all the candy is gone).

Or, you know, just wear a red bikini and carry a piece of pipe around and engage your autumnal crush in a conversation about the merits of symbolic protest versus actual property destruction. That works too!