Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Blued
Read more: BluedHow a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet Blued, one of the biggest gay dating apps in the world, has succeeded because it plays by the ever-shifting rules for L.G.B.T.Q. China — bringing together…
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Caged ‘Children’ Appear Throughout Des Moines Amid Iowa Caucus to Remind Voters of ‘The Terrors Enacted in Your Name’
Read more: Caged ‘Children’ Appear Throughout Des Moines Amid Iowa Caucus to Remind Voters of ‘The Terrors Enacted in Your Name’Caucus-goers in Des Moines will arrive to a disturbing sight on Monday, with dozens of chain-link cages appearing to hold migrant children cropping up across the city overnight. On Monday, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services…
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Under the same sky
Read more: Under the same sky“Under the Same Sky” bearing the name and the first part of my project completed. I collected the letters written to 40 Armenian young people from 40 random Turkish young people. The mutual translations of all letters and video subtitles…
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#TeamTrees
Read more: #TeamTreesWhen And Where Will #TeamTrees Plant 21.5 Million Crowdfunded Trees? Two months after reaching one of the most ambitious crowdfunding goals in YouTube history, #TeamTrees is getting closer to delivering on behalf of its 800,000+ unique donors. According to a…
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The Ugly Conference
Read more: The Ugly ConferenceLast November, when you Googled the phrase “ugly Black woman,” Vanessa Rochelle Lewis’s photograph was the second to come up. “Which I’m offended by,” says Lewis, a Bay Area–based artist and writer, “since I’m an Aries and I like to…
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Welcome to Chechnya
Read more: Welcome to ChechnyaIn February 2017, authorities in Chechnya — a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus — arrested a man they suspected to be under the influence of a controlled substance. As is procedure, they searched his phone. According to…
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Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test
Read more: Mainstream Media Is Blowing Its Coverage Of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA TestWASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was positioned to make a strong bid for president in 2020, but she infuriated tribal leaders by releasing the results of a DNA test to prove her Native ancestry and now her future is…
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The Fearless Girl Statue
Read more: The Fearless Girl StatueOn the eve of International Women’s Day and the one-year anniversary of its SPDR®SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (ticker: SHE), State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is calling on the more…
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Australian artist Badiucao’s exhibition finally shown in Melbourne after China ‘threat’ ordeal
Read more: Australian artist Badiucao’s exhibition finally shown in Melbourne after China ‘threat’ ordealThis month, the art of Chinese dissident Badiucao has finally seen the light of day in Melbourne — more than a year after the Australian artist’s Hong Kong exhibition was cancelled due to threats reportedly made by Chinese authorities. Reflecting…
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The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Read more: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti MonsterIn the mid early 2000s, religious advocates tried a new strategy: promoting the theory of “intelligent design” to be taught in schools. As the Kansas School Board considered the argument, Prophet Bobby Henderson saw an opportunity. His now famous, “Open…
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Gray Area
Read more: Gray AreaBeing a Kuwaiti citizen makes you feel like you belong to Kuwait, as nationality is a legal relationship between a person and a state. But what if you are a “halfie” and are finding it hard to answer the question…
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Perigives
Read more: PerigivesThe public bathrooms at Penn Station in New York City are a dirty, depressing place. But now, there’s a bright spot: a poster that encourages women to donate menstrual products, like pads or tampon, to help the many homeless women…