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Reimagining Albus
Read more: Reimagining AlbusThrough her work, South African art activist Athenkosi Kwinana aspires to deepen the understanding of Albinism in her native country, where she has faced discrimination in most aspects of her life from childhood days on. Working with both drawing and…
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Silver Action
Read more: Silver Action“Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. One of her best-known works to date is The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987) a performance with 430 older women,…
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Feminism Gets Rebranded
Read more: Feminism Gets RebrandedFor the November issue of women’s magazine ELLE UK, agency W+K London teamed up with feminist cofounders of Vagenda, Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, to rebrand feminism. Frustrated with the way women are stereotyped and portrayed, Vagenda created a…
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Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder
Read more: Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder“So dramatic, so strong, so visual,” artist Stéphan Gladieu said of his first encounter with the revival of an ancestral folk art movement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa is the capital of Congo but also one of the…
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2020 Was the Year of Protest Music
Read more: 2020 Was the Year of Protest Music2020 was the year of when protest music blared everywhere. For a long period, Black people struggled against police brutality and in the uproar of George Floyd’s murder, BLM protests instantly swept over the country. Of the many protest music…
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Act Now – Our House Is Flooding
Read more: Act Now – Our House Is FloodingIn the early hours of Sunday 10th November, Extinction Rebellion activists staged an action on the river Thames in London. A classic suburban house was seen floating down the river, sinking into the water in yet another attempt to send…
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DEMAND BETTER HATE CRIMES DATA IN NEW YORK STATE
Read more: DEMAND BETTER HATE CRIMES DATA IN NEW YORK STATEIn New York, laws that are designed to protect vulnerable communities could in fact be harming them. Criminal penalties for hate crimes exist to prevent discrimination, harassment and violence against LGBTQ people, people of color and other marginalized communities. But…
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Glam Up the Midterms
Read more: Glam Up the MidtermsYou think midterm elections are boring? Not this year. Funny Or Die and Billy Eichner are going to Glam Up The Midterms! Only 12% of young people voted during the last midterm election. From the same team that brought you…
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What If We Switch Positions With Whales?
Read more: What If We Switch Positions With Whales?What would it be like if we switched positions with whales in captivity? Nothing like this – but at least prankster Rémi Gaillard had some fun trying to recreate the scenario. The actor and some of his friends dressed up…
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Degrees of My Deaf Rage
Read more: Degrees of My Deaf RageChristine Sun Kim’s series Degrees of My Deaf Rage is a series of charcoal drawings of charts that depict the artist’s varying degrees of what she calls “deaf rage.” These frustrations are categorized by situations: deaf rage in the art…
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The Ugly Conference
Read more: The Ugly ConferenceLast November, when you Googled the phrase “ugly Black woman,” Vanessa Rochelle Lewis’s photograph was the second to come up. “Which I’m offended by,” says Lewis, a Bay Area–based artist and writer, “since I’m an Aries and I like to…
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Putting It All On The Table
Read more: Putting It All On The TableThe following description is taken from an article that appeared on the unreasonable.is website (see link below): on January 24, 2014, a gallery exhibit opened in New York for the express purpose of inspiring people to think differently about food,…