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Reverse Graffiti
Read more: Reverse GraffitiReverse graffiti is form of street art that involves carving into the dirt and dust that surrounds us. Artists subtract from a surface in order to create a negative image within the positive, often quite dark layer of grime. They…
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Ghost Bikes
Read more: Ghost BikesGhostbikes.org is intended to be a site for the worldwide cycling community where those lost on dangerous streets can be remembered by their loved ones, members of their local communities, and others from around the world. They also hope to…
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Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll
Read more: Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll“How different. Exotic,” commented one women as she watched a group of almost 50 people — mostly young and black, many wearing bright fabrics with African designs — stroll through the Shopping Leblon mall. They came this Monday to participate…
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Publixtheatre Caravan
Read more: Publixtheatre CaravanThe Publixtheatre Caravan is the English name for a travelling project of the Volxtheater Favoriten, a Vienna-based international theatrical troupe that has been creating site-specific theatrical interventions in public space as well as stage-based performances since 1994. It is a…
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The Art And Activism of Nobuko Miyamoto: How She Became One Of LA’s Most Enduring Performers
Read more: The Art And Activism of Nobuko Miyamoto: How She Became One Of LA’s Most Enduring PerformersIn 1972, something unheard of happened on national television. An Asian American singer-songwriter duo was invited to perform on the widely-watched The Mike Douglas Show by guest hosts John Lennon and Yoko Ono. “They’re beautiful singers,” Lennon said in his…
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Israel’s Handmaid’s Tale Protesters
Read more: Israel’s Handmaid’s Tale ProtestersHundreds of women clad in red, their heads bowed and topped with white wimples, moving slowing in formation with clasped hands is the most unforgettable image from the weeks of recent protests throughout Israel against the judicial reforms proposed by…
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The Sacred Art of Ori
Read more: The Sacred Art of OriThe story of an artist. Laolu Senbanjo grew up surrounded by the culture and mythology of the Yoruba, an ethnic group from the southwest of Nigeria, but he never imagined how it would influence the artist he is today. After…
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Kurt Hiller’s Literary Activism
Read more: Kurt Hiller’s Literary ActivismKurt Hiller’s Literary Activism Sexual revolution and sexual liberation movements are traditionally associated with the 1960s and 1970s, and particularly linked to western protests and liberation discourses. However, there are some examples of sexual activism before this period. Kurt Hiller,…
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Kimani Gray Barricades
Read more: Kimani Gray Barricades“This project was launched in the wake of the police shooting of 16-year old Brooklyn resident Kimani Gray. Blue NYPD barricades left in piles around the city were spray-painted with the names of people killed by police, then re-deployed in…
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Break Down
Read more: Break DownMichael Landy made an inventory of every single thing he owned: every item of furniture, every book, every work of art, every article of clothing and one Saab car. Cataloguing all his possessions took a year to complete and the…
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Ukraine’s Femen: Topless protests ‘help feminist cause’
Read more: Ukraine’s Femen: Topless protests ‘help feminist cause’FEMEN is a feminist Ukrainian protest group based in Kiev, founded in 2008. The organisation became internationally known for organizing topless protests against sex tourists, religious institutions, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international topics.Some of the…
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Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’
Read more: Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’On Friday night, as U.S. television screens burned with images of peaceful protests turning violent, Nike released a new socially conscious ad calling on Americans to do something quite different than the brand’s usual call to “Just Do It.” Instead,…