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Your body is a battleground
Read more: Your body is a battlegroundUntitled (Your Body is a Battleground) is an iconic 1989 silkscreen portrait made by artist, feminist and activist Barbara Kruger . Though the poster was meant for the pro-choice march on April 9th, 1989, in DC, the portrait is now…
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YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaign
Read more: YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaignLexi Nisita from Refinery 29 writes in her article “Not A Sketch: The Most Creative Anti-ED Message We’ve Seen Yet,” “Brazilian modeling agency Star Models has recently released an eating disorder awareness campaign featuring your typical fashion sketch on the…
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Black Superheroes Matter
Read more: Black Superheroes MatterWatch Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, and you’ll see a charismatic character who fills a void in the conflicted do-gooder group. This T’Challa is accessible, awe-inspiring and perhaps most importantly, human. “I think the question that…
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‘It brings out the best in humanity’: the rescuers saving pets from LA’s wildfires
Read more: ‘It brings out the best in humanity’: the rescuers saving pets from LA’s wildfiresRescue workers have swung into action to board, feed and treat displaced animals – and find those who may be trapped. As the wildfires besieged Los Angeles, marauding through hillside suburbs at an impossibly fast and ferocious pace, 500 miles…
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“Citizen K”/“Občan K”: Idendity Swap
Read more: “Citizen K”/“Občan K”: Idendity SwapOn 17 June 2007, a horrific vision was offered to the viewers of the Czech morning program Panorama: instead of idyllic hills, the image of a mushroom cloud was broadcast by a weather camera installed in the Krkonoše mountains, which…
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Shift Change Dress
Read more: Shift Change DressShift Change Dress is a community fashion & art project that utilizes a shift dress sewing pattern as a medium for communication and action. Participants are encouraged to use the pattern as a blank canvas for their art or message…
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Read more: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus BoycottIn 1900, Montgomery, Alabama had passed a city ordinance to segregate bus passengers by race, and conductors were empowered to assign seats to achieve that goal. The first four rows of seats on each Montgomery bus were reserved for whites,…
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Activism Through Art by an Angry Feminist Whale
Read more: Activism Through Art by an Angry Feminist WhaleInspired by the ecological disaster unfolding across the planet and driven by empowering underrepresented people, Moule, a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer, creates art that makes a statement. Dressed in a magenta blazer and wearing bright pink lipstick, she is…
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Washing the Flag
Read more: Washing the Flag“It might not seem that an act of public laundry could unsettle a president with a well-deserved reputation for inflexibility, corruption, and brutality. But mass washing ceremonies were a key element in getting rid of Peru’s unpopular president, Alberto Fujimori,…
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Read more: Aboriginal Tent EmbassyIn the 1970s, inspired by the Black Power movement in the US, Aboriginal people were politically very active. In Sydney, Australia’s first Aboriginal legal and medical services were founded. Aboriginal people demanded land rights for the areas that they lived…
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Phillip Lim on Asian-American Activism in Fashion
Read more: Phillip Lim on Asian-American Activism in FashionIn the wake of hate crimes against Asian-Americans, the New York designer has moved his studio to Chinatown and refocused his energies toward advocacy and fundraising on behalf of the AAPI community. As he said, ‘I can no longer separate…
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Mind Over Media
Read more: Mind Over MediaMind Over Media is a crowdsourced educational platform that contains diverse examples of contemporary propaganda on a wide range of social, political, economic and environmental topics. 1. ACCESS AND SHARE EXAMPLES. Timely resources for classroom discussion are important. By using…