Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Primavera Violeta en Mexico
Read more: Primavera Violeta en MexicoEl acoso sexual a las mujeres en México, no es novedad. Desde un chiflido o grito de “mamacita” en la calle hasta una alarmante cifra de seis feminicidios diarios, la violencia machista es un asunto cotidiano. Lo que sí es…
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Camión / Galeria de Arte “Gente de Corabastos”
Read more: Camión / Galeria de Arte “Gente de Corabastos”Se sacuden la desconfianza y entran al camión. En él no hay frutas, ni verduras, ni carnes. El piso, igual que el techo y las paredes están inmaculadas y pintadas de blanco. Solo ellos y algunos compañeros inmortalizados en fotos…
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One Of My Kind, Championing Muslim Women in The Zine World
Read more: One Of My Kind, Championing Muslim Women in The Zine WorldThe questions that London-based collective One Of My Kind (aka OOMK) explore are those of identity and belonging—issues that are experienced by everyone regardless of whether they grew up defining themselves based on the music they listen to, the hobbies…
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Kiss-in protest after lesbian couple told they were ‘disgusting’
Read more: Kiss-in protest after lesbian couple told they were ‘disgusting’As the crowd surged indoors shortly before 6.30pm, Luke Wassell and Lewis Jones found themselves in the vegetable aisle, wedged between the sweet potatoes and the bags of spinach. Though both are gay, they are friends rather than partners, and…
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LezFem’s Diary
Read more: LezFem’s DiaryThe current cultural and political context in Macedonia marginalizes lesbians and women in general, and the dominant political party forces the traditional role of the woman, where she is a mother, a housewife, and of course, heterosexual. Furthermore, the major…
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This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Read more: This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering“This Ain’t a Eulogy” is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows: “Moved by the non-indictments of the police officers responsible for the deaths of…
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Beyonce’s Lemonade
Read more: Beyonce’s LemonadeIn a single hour, Beyoncé’s Lemonade re-wrote the textbook definition of what a visual album should look like. The genre-bending music it introduced will define the struggles a generation was enduring in 2016, specifically for black women. The project transcends…
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Miss HIV Stigma Free
Read more: Miss HIV Stigma FreeTo change Bostwana’s regional misconceptions about HIV, Kesego Basha-Muebli, founded the Miss HIV stigma free pageant. A pageant designed for women who are currently receiving health and wellness counseling and HIV antiretroviral treatment to come out to their friends and…
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Reflections from Inside
Read more: Reflections from InsideWe Save Lives, a non-profit created by MADD founder Candace Lightner, has launched “Reflections from Inside,” an online film against drunk driving. The title refers to the live footage of Kris Caudilla, a convicted drunk driver currently serving 15 years…
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Join The Pack
Read more: Join The PackGrey wolves have had a tumultuous relationship with their human neighbors in the Pacific Northwest for more than a hundred years. From nearly being wiped out from the continent, Canadian grey wolves started being reintroduced to the wilderness in the…
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Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
Read more: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower SeedsAi Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually…
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All in the Family Parts 1 & 2
Read more: All in the Family Parts 1 & 2The link between early trauma and ill health later was untilled soil in the world of medicine. But the possibility of a connection captured the interest of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. And it was the beginning of…