In Phoenix’s Last Song the viewer is presented with the legend of the paradisiacal bird who descends to earth in order to die. Her words are a call to think and live against the patriarchal, capitalist and colonial power structures that define the world as we know it. The text draws on the work of feminist thinkers like Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Simone de Beauvoir and Emma Goldman, and look at the ways in which institutions like the bourgeois family or state education inscribe the child within these power structures. Against this background, Phoenix’s Last Song opens a space to imagine how a new world may arise out of a burning of the old.