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Chinatown gets animated in campaign against 76ers arena plan with bevy of protest art on display
Read more: Chinatown gets animated in campaign against 76ers arena plan with bevy of protest art on displayWander around Chinatown and you’ll find a simple message plastered along storefronts and the sides of buildings: NO ARENA. The posters are usually sparse, text-heavy and straight to the point. Since last year, residents and shop owners in Chinatown have…
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“Yes I’m Hot of This” Explores the Experience of Muslim American Women One Panel at a Time
Read more: “Yes I’m Hot of This” Explores the Experience of Muslim American Women One Panel at a TimeComic artist Huda Fahmy has been breaking down walls with her hilarious comic “Yes, I’m Hot in This.” In her own words, “What started as my therapeutic way of dealing with the Islamophobia and prejudice I encounter on the daily…
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Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ Is Still Revolutionary
Read more: Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ Is Still RevolutionaryLady Gaga said something interesting about her song “Born This Way” during a March 2011 interview at Google headquarters. “What’s so funny [is] when I put that song out, everybody was like, ‘Oh, the lyrics are so literal,’ and I’m…
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Women are Heroes Project
Read more: Women are Heroes ProjectIn Women Are Heroes, JR introduces women who sometimes look death in the face, who go from laughter to tears, who are generous, have nothing and yet share, who have had a painful past and long to build a happy…
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“Don’t Look Up” director McKay gives to climate activists
Read more: “Don’t Look Up” director McKay gives to climate activistsSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In director Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” a 2021 satire about two scientists who try in vain to warn the world about a planet-destroying comet, the scientists’ desperate plea for action ultimately doesn’t work. But don’t…
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BLOOD. by Kendrick Lamar
Read more: BLOOD. by Kendrick LamarKendick Lamar is known as one of the most prolific, and socially conscious, rappers of our time. ‘BLOOD.’ is the second track off of Lamar’s iconic album ‘DAMN.’ from 2017. What makes this song stand out is the sample used…
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Queering the Map
Read more: Queering the MapQueering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space. The platform provides an interface to collaboratively record the cartography of queer life—from park benches to the middle of the ocean—in…
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Bike Church
Read more: Bike ChurchWatch Gabriel Frilando (aka CheatDeathNYC) cycle through the streets of New York City in this short film of remembrance made by NYC based, Argentinian born, director/ cinematographer Nicolás de Miranda. Speaking about this personal project Nicolás says: “On June 18th…
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Emory Douglas, “Afro-American Solidarity With the Oppressed People of the World,” 1969
Read more: Emory Douglas, “Afro-American Solidarity With the Oppressed People of the World,” 1969Emory Douglas joined the Black Panthers in January 1967 at the age of 23, just three months after Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the party. Douglas, who had studied graphic design at San Francisco City College, swiftly became…
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We the People Are Greater Than Fear
Read more: We the People Are Greater Than FearColorful portrait of a Muslim woman wearing an American flag colored head scarf. Image on back of a woman with a rose in her hair in black and white with text that states, “We are resilient. We are indivisible. We…
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‘I am not your scapegoat’: See the art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hate
Read more: ‘I am not your scapegoat’: See the art created by Asian Americans in a year of anti-Asian hateIn mid-November, the nonprofit group Asian American Federation released 10 travel posters designed to subvert a question that can instantly get under the skin of any person of Asian descent in the United States: “Where are you really from?” At…
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“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”
Read more: “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”National Museum of Women In the Arts: To maintain their anonymity, group members wear gorilla masks in public and adopt the names of historic women artists, such as Käthe Kollwitz and Frida Kahlo, as pseudonyms. Guerrilla Girls posters first appeared…