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Chinese Artists Protest Against Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Release Through Visual Arts
Read more: Chinese Artists Protest Against Japan’s Nuclear Wastewater Release Through Visual ArtsJapan has begun discharging nuclear wastewater into the ocean four times a year, each time lasting 17 consecutive days. Under their 30-year plan, it is estimated that approximately 1.34 million tons of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will…
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This Clothing Line Tricks AI Cameras Without Covering Your Face
Read more: This Clothing Line Tricks AI Cameras Without Covering Your FaceA start-up has launched a line of clothing that confuses artificial intelligence (AI) cameras and stops them from recognizing the wearer. Italian start-up Cap_able is offering its first collection of knitted garments that shields the wearer from the facial recognition…
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The Crossroads Project
Read more: The Crossroads Project“The mandate for great and difficult achievement is manifest in the message coming from the science of sustainability and climate change. Yet information alone will not take us where we need to go; science needs the arts to compel a…
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Activists get branded with hot steel
Read more: Activists get branded with hot steelOn October 2nd 2012, World Farmed Animals Day, three animal rights activists in Israel got branded with a hot steel brand, in the same way that farmed animals are branded in factory farms. The branding of the calf’s number, chosen…
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Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on Women
Read more: Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on WomenBy Lauren Barbato, Ms Magazine Blog “I find this onslaught of anti-women legislation repulsive,” says 23-year-old Amanda Velez. “These proposed laws condescend to a level where women are treated as something much less than human.” A resident of Elizabethtown, Kentucky,…
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Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns)
Read more: Hansel and Gretel (Have Guns)The N.R.A. Reimagines Classic Fairy Tales, With Guns. The world of make-believe can be a scary place, but never fear: Thanks to a series of reimagined fairy tales published online by the National Rifle Association, classic characters like Hansel and…
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Pink Chaddi Campaign
Read more: Pink Chaddi CampaignIn late January 2009, a group of 40 members of right-wing Hindu group Sri Ram Sena attacked women and men in a pub in the Indian city of Mangalore. They were upset with the women for engaging in behavior they…
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Read more:On a freezing Friday in January, Khmer-American artist Kat Eng sits in front of retail giant H&M’s Time Square store working on a manual sewing machine. For eight hours, Eng stitches together U.S. dollar bills while wearing a surgical mask…
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Kinshasa Costumes
Read more: Kinshasa CostumesThe collective Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle, a group of Kinshasa street performers turn their bodies into living sculptures, and use them to political ends. Among the artists is Jared, who regularly takes to the streets dressed as Robot…
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New Beijing, New Marriage: A Milestone Film in China’s LGBTQ Movement
Read more: New Beijing, New Marriage: A Milestone Film in China’s LGBTQ MovementNew Beijing, New Marriage is a documentary shot by Fan Popo, a Chinese gay rights activist in 2009. The film recorded that a gay couple and a lesbian couple, who were volunteers instead of real homosexual couples, were having their…
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Art Inspection notices
Read more: Art Inspection noticesBogus building inspection notices with the forged signature of city Building Inspection Director Frank Chiu appeared on buildings in San Francisco’s South of Market area, prompting an investigation by exasperated city officials. Project LOFT, as posted in July 2000: “In…
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Kiss-in protest after lesbian couple told they were ‘disgusting’
Read more: Kiss-in protest after lesbian couple told they were ‘disgusting’As the crowd surged indoors shortly before 6.30pm, Luke Wassell and Lewis Jones found themselves in the vegetable aisle, wedged between the sweet potatoes and the bags of spinach. Though both are gay, they are friends rather than partners, and…