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Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activist
Read more: Actor Jim Carrey has emerged as an unlikely political artist and activistActor and comedian Jim Carrey has always been known for his slapstick silliness. You know the films — “Dumb and Dumber,” “The Mask,” “Liar Liar,” “Ace Ventura,” just to name a few. But he also always managed to peel back…
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#wakandathevote
Read more: #wakandathevoteThe Movement for Black Lives recognized a great opportunity to register a whole lot of people to vote: the opening weekend of Black Panther. According to activist Kayla Reed, the campaign has already inspired similar drives all over the country.…
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Black Superheroes Matter
Read more: Black Superheroes MatterWatch Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, and you’ll see a charismatic character who fills a void in the conflicted do-gooder group. This T’Challa is accessible, awe-inspiring and perhaps most importantly, human. “I think the question that…
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Wirikuta Fest
Read more: Wirikuta FestIt was a long time coming – but it was worth the wait. Nearly two years ago, more than a dozen of Mexico’s biggest performing artists came together in a mega-event aimed at saving Wirikuta, one of the country’s most…
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A Period Coloring Book Now Exists And It’s Bloody Delightful
Read more: A Period Coloring Book Now Exists And It’s Bloody DelightfulA new coloring book is making menstruation easier to talk about, one sex-positive illustration at a time. Created by Toronto-native Andrea Yip, the Period Coloring Book is a sex-positive coloring book that aims to normalize menstruation. Yip, a public health…
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Campaign aims to make Hong Kong a key player in fight against slavery
Read more: Campaign aims to make Hong Kong a key player in fight against slaveryAt least three international companies have committed to join the fight against slavery in a campaign that aims to make Hong Kong the hub in Asia to tackle human-trafficking. The Slave Free campaign is being launched by Hong Kong law…
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Drake Donates $1 Million Budget for Music Video God’s Plan to Schools in Impoverished Areas
Read more: Drake Donates $1 Million Budget for Music Video God’s Plan to Schools in Impoverished AreasDrake has released an emotional video for “God’s Plan” in which he donates the music video budget to people in need. Shot in Miami and directed by Toronto’s Karena Evans and Jordan Oram, the video features a bunch of generous,…
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#MuslimVDay
Read more: #MuslimVDay“In these apocalyptic Islamophobic times, laughing in the face of the resistance can sometimes be the best medicine.” That may sound like the trailer to a good-bad movie, but that’s how Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed describes her awesome Muslim Valentine’s Day…
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Zanele Muholi: ‘I’m a visual activist’
Read more: Zanele Muholi: ‘I’m a visual activist’I am a visual activist. Most of what I have done over the years focuses on black LGBTQIA+ and gender-non-conforming individuals from South Africa and other neighbouring countries. It’s about making sure we exist in the visual archive. I call…
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Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest
Read more: Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protestLocal artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America–appeared all over…
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Artists mark Trump’s inauguration anniversary with day of protest art
Read more: Artists mark Trump’s inauguration anniversary with day of protest artThis weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration. It also marks the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March his election inspired, the largest single-day protest in the nation’s history. To memorialize the occasion, artists across the country are…
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Poetry of the street and poetry of transparency
Read more: Poetry of the street and poetry of transparency“At the end of 1969, Alain Arias-Misson invited us to join him in a Public Poem project, which he called “A MADRID” (in Madrid, Spain) . If that was not the first “Public Poem” in history, since Alain had experimented…