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Gucci model stages mental health protest at Milan fashion week

If fashion is a reflection of the times it is little wonder that the current round of shows have often felt discombobulating. Gucci’s show on Sunday night was particularly surreal, opening with a series of models being propelled along a…

When I Walk

Practitioner:
Jason DaSilva

I love New York. When I was younger, the city was my playground. You could find me on any given weekend catching brunch with a friend at a café, going to an East Village restaurant for dinner, and then hopping…

Borders

Practitioner:
MIA

The video for “Borders,” a song off MIA’s album Matahdatah, features images recalling all sorts of migrations from the developing world—there are people crossing deserts, fences, and bodies of water. Though much of M.I.A.’s work has been about women and…

Naked Barcelona Animal Rights Activists Covered in Blood to be “Human Meat” Protesting

Practitioner:
Barcelona Animal Rights Activists

Naked animal rights activists have covered themselves in blood and wrapped themselves in giant meat packaging in the middle of Barcelona. The Spanish branch of animal rights organisation AnimaNaturalis staged the protest on Sunday, on Barcelona’s Sant Jaume plaza.Activists protested…

With the Help of an Art Installation, Ukrainian Activists in NYC Canvass Voters for Support

Practitioner:
Ganna Smirnova, Vsevolod Myrnyi and Zhanna Galeyeva

Four days before the U.S. presidential election, three Ukrainian activists gathered at a stranded fence in New York City’s East Village to hang an expansive information poster. “19546+ Ukrainian Children Abducted by Russia,” reads its headline in bold. From a…

Day Care Center Sit-In

Practitioner:
building tenants

Low-income tenants at a public housing project in Rhode Island — many of them working mothers with young children — wanted an affordable day care center in their building. With petitions, pickets, and letters to the city council, they built…

Rolezinho

Practitioner:
Brazilian Youths

This description is taken from an article posted on dissidentvoice.org (link below): Since last December, Brazilian shopping malls have become the stage for a new style of youth gathering: the rolezinho. Roughly translated as “little excursions” or outings, the rolezinhos…

Google Features 12 Female Artists To Celebrate International Women’s Day

Practitioner:
12 female artists

Google is honoring female artists and their stories this International Women’s Day. On Thursday, the tech company will feature 12 interactive illustrations or “Google Doodles” on the search platform’s homepage. The artists are from 12 countries, including the U.S., Japan,…

People’s Tours: A social history of the South End walking tour

Practitioner:
People’s Tours

In early 2012, a group of artists, activists and assorted other odd balls got together to form People’s Tours. The idea was to give walking tours in the Boston area. Standard enough. But instead of the usual history, we would…

Rolling Jubilee

Practitioner:
Strike Debt

Across the United States, 2,693 people have received a letter in the last few months, which identified a debt and read: “You are no longer under any obligation to settle this account with the original creditor, the bill collector, or…

The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols Video

Practitioner:
RowVaugn Wells

TYRE NICHOLS WAS a photographer with an eye for the natural world. He was especially drawn to landscape portraiture, its calm and innocence. It is said that Nichols liked to crane his lens skyward, capturing what sunlight he could before…

Honest Shop

Practitioner:
Grizedale Arts

A village shop in Coniston is stocked by local producers with everything from farm meat and vegetables to paintings and knitted goods. The produce is all homemade and brought in by local suppliers. Customers are invited to buy goods in…