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Party with Playboy
Read more: Party with Playboy“Every year Playboy releases the ultimate guide to campus life: our infamous party school list. Over the years, it has been brought to our attention that some of our long-standing party picks have a not-so-toast-worthy, rape-ridden side to their campus…
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FreeAJStaff
Read more: FreeAJStaffAll over the world, journalists and rights groups are protesting the detainment and muzzling of four Al Jazeera staff members in Egypt. Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and correspondent Peter Greste, were detained December 29. The trio, who are accused of…
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Black People Love Us
Read more: Black People Love UsThis satirical website ridicules hipster racism and black tokenism, using two fictional white characters – Sally and Johnny – who have many black friends. The webpage is fairly simple and features fictional testimonies by black people celebrating the stereotypes and…
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LAMP
Read more: LAMPvia Detroit Future Youth: “Detroit Summer is [a] multi-racial, inter-generational collective in Detroit that has been working to transform communities through youth leadership, creativity and collective action since 1992. The Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) of Detroit Summer is a…
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GULF Protest at the Guggenheim
Read more: GULF Protest at the GuggenheimLast night, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night’s pay-what-you-wish admission hours. Unfurling mylar banners, dropping leaflets, chanting words, handing out information to museum visitors, and drawing attention with the use of…
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Protests and Posters in Kafranbel, Syria
Read more: Protests and Posters in Kafranbel, SyriaA town in northwestern Syria has become the creative center of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad. Since the beginning of the uprising, the residents of Kafr Anbel have drawn signs that skewer the Assad regime and express outrage that…
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The Merit Shop
Read more: The Merit ShopThis shop is more interested in people than it is in profits. If you’ve got some mad dance skills, or even just some mediocre ones, you can purchase a variety of goods at The Merit Shop in San Francisco. The…
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Peng! Collective Slams Shell at their PR event in Berlin
Read more: Peng! Collective Slams Shell at their PR event in BerlinIn 2013, Shell sent out press releases about their upcoming event, the Science Slam, which would aim to “celebrate the company’s responsible oil production” and “showcase ideas for renewable energy by scientists and students.” Essentially, Shell organized this event in…
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Indian Act
Read more: Indian ActIndian Act speaks of the realities of colonization – the effects of contact, and its often-broken and untranslated contracts. The piece consists of all 56 pages of the Federal Government’s Indian Act mounted on stroud cloth and sewn over with…
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“Playboy’s” Top 10 Party Commandments
Read more: “Playboy’s” Top 10 Party CommandmentsForce: Upsetting Rape Culture is a group of creative activists who seek to raise awareness about rape culture and promote consensual sex. They “create art actions to generate attention and get millions of people talking,” in hopes that sex can…
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Snake Ceiling
Read more: Snake CeilingOn May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake in China’s Sichuan province killed approximately 90,000 people. Ai Weiwei created this serpentine sculpture, made of backpacks, to commemorate the more than 5,000 school children who were killed when their shoddily constructed schools…
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Something Terrible
Read more: Something TerribleSomething Terrible is the story of Trippe’s childhood sexual abuse and painful struggle with its psychological aftermath. Though the comic itself is sparsely scripted and free of gory details, Trippe provides an afterword that relates the hard facts: he was…