Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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TikTok’s teen communists are reclaiming the hammer and sickle
Read more: TikTok’s teen communists are reclaiming the hammer and sickle20-year-old Ilyssa, from New York, sees communism as the only viable alternative, one that will improve the societal issues we currently face. “From a young age, I was very aware of the stark class differences that existed,” she says. “I…
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Women’s March Taiwan 2018
Read more: Women’s March Taiwan 2018Women’s March Taiwan 2018 “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” is the slogan of the Women’s March Taiwan 2018 held by the feminism organization Women’s March Taiwan. On March 8th, 2018, Women’s March Taiwan held a parade in Taipei city to…
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Donate an hour
Read more: Donate an hourPrison inmates in Mexico have suffered from coronavirus infections at a higher rate than the country as a whole, and pandemic lockdowns have reduced their already limited contact with the outside world. But one group of women inmates at a…
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#KuToo Movement: protest against mandatory high heels at work in Japan
Read more: #KuToo Movement: protest against mandatory high heels at work in JapanYumi Ishikawa, a Japanese actress, freelance writer, and part-time funeral parlor worker, started the #KuToo Movement because she feels it’s unfair she has to wear heels at work. She also feels that being required to wear heels is rooted in…
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Iran’s Shaming of Young Dancer Draws Backlash
Read more: Iran’s Shaming of Young Dancer Draws Backlash“But Ms. Hojabri lives in Iran, where women are not allowed to dance, at least not in public. The 19-year-old was quietly arrested in May and her page was taken down, leaving her 600,000 followers wondering where she had gone.…
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Snwmn 4 Carbn Pricng
Read more: Snwmn 4 Carbn Pricng500+ snowmen appeared outside the office of Senator Chuck Schumer in Melville Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. The snowmen appear to be placed there by climate activist @pricecarbonplz. (Source: Newsday, https://www.newsday.com/long-island/photos-of-the-day-1.50139710) The project is connected to a Twitter account @pricecarbonplz and…
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“The Little Match Girl” in Shanghai -“One Box of Matches to Warm a Child”
Read more: “The Little Match Girl” in Shanghai -“One Box of Matches to Warm a Child”On January 12, 2016, Shanghai’s temperature dropped to its lowest of the year. A little girl was seen selling matches in the cold wind on Bund street. The little girl, wearing a classic dress, wrapped in an ocher-red scarf and…
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The masked artist protesters in a polluted city of China
Read more: The masked artist protesters in a polluted city of ChinaIn the south-western city of Chengdu, by all accounts a city on the edge coping with heavy pollution but also with authorities scrambling to put a lid on simmering discontent. That night police detained a number of artists who managed…
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‘Framing Britney Spears’
Read more: ‘Framing Britney Spears’“Spears entered the conservatorship in 2008, at age 26, when her struggles were on public display. Now she is 39, and a growing number of her fans are agitating on her behalf, raising questions about civil liberties while trying to…
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Las Carpetas
Read more: Las Carpetas“Las Carpetas looks at the bureaucratic residue of a 40-year-long secret surveillance program that aimed to destroy the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. Through still-lives, archival appropriation, and investigation, Christopher Gregory-Rivera provides a counter-history to the way many understand this period…
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WomXnish
Read more: WomXnisha month-long interactive art exhibition in the heart of downtown Chicago celebrating women and gender nonconforming folks. Two sisters have made it their life’s mission to support women and create safe, uplifting, and simply FUN environments to connect in. After…
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Zaria Forman Artistic Practice
Read more: Zaria Forman Artistic PracticeTED TALK: I consider it my life’s mission to convey the urgency of climate change through my work. I’ve traveled north to the Arctic to the capture the unfolding story of polar melt, and south to the Equator to document…