The celebration of the fourth edition of D-CAF, the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, in the spring of 2015 in Cairo revealed important tensions regarding the use and ownership of urban spaces, women's access to and occupation of public space, and the memorialization of the January 25th Revolution in an increasingly securitized landscape following the military intervention of July 2013. My presentation will focus on the street art workshop “Unchained,” organized by the graffiti initiative Women on Walls (WOW) in the framework of D-CAF, and examine the discussions and reactions that the project sparked as the participant artists painted murals on women's issues on the walls of Youssef Al Guindy and Mohamed Mahmoud Street, famous for their revolutionary graffiti and the murals honoring the 2011 Revolution martyrs. Through interviews with organizers and participant artists from Egypt and other countries of the Middle East, photographs documenting the creation (and partial destruction) of the collective graffiti during the 5-day workshop, and online exchanges in Facebook and Twitter among street artists and activists, I will analyze how notions of revolutionary street art are embedded in gendered, nationalist, and political discourses that predetermine who has the right to represent the Revolution and who is entitled to be represented as part of it. I will discuss these events in the context of the rise and escalation of sexual violence in political protests under the military rule that followed the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak and during the Morsi and El-Sisi regimes, and the multiplication of independent initiatives against sexual harassment and assault that proliferated in Tahrir Square as well as on the streets and in public transportation since 2012. Moreover, I will situate my analysis within broader discussions about recent urban developments, the pacification of Downtown Cairo, the securitization of public space, and the co-optation of the revolutionary discourse by El-Sisi's regime.