Fluxus is an international avant-garde network of artists and composers founded in the 1960s and continuing into the present. The Latin word Fluxus means “flowing”. In English, a “flux” is a flowing out. Practitioners of Fluxus hold in common simplicity and anti-commercialism, chance, accident, and humor. Styling themselves as an alternative to academic art and music, Fluxus established a democratic form of creativity intended to be open to anyone. Collaborations were encouraged between artists and across artforms, and between artist and audience. Two factors in the social constitution of Fluxus stand out. One was its tricontinental membership; the other, the robust presence of women. Their varying engagements in the public spheres of the avant-garde and second wave feminism drew together ideas and actions normally kept apart. This difference marked more than a difference between Fluxus and other postwar avant-garde collectives. In this course, we will consider the opportunities and the constraints through the work of Fluxus artists and composers such as Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Mieko Shiomi, Takako Saito, Shigeko Kubota, Alice Hutchins, Carla Liss, Alice Hutchins, Charlotte Moorman. We will, furthermore, consider these women, their worldviews and their careers through the lens of contemporaneous writings by second wave feminists such as Kate Millett and gay and lesbian activists such as Geoffrey Hendricks and Nye Ffarrabas.