Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Her/She Senses: Imag(in)ed Malady
Read more: Her/She Senses: Imag(in)ed MaladyTina Takemoto is an artist and associate professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work examines issues of race, queer identity, memory, and grief. Her current project explores the hidden dimensions of same-sex…
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Kids Helping Kids
Read more: Kids Helping KidsKids Helping Kids is a youth hip-hop program run by two NGOs, Hip Hip Saves Lives and Negusworld. Together, these organizations work with middle school and high school students to make conscious hip hop influenced by activist work happening worldwide.…
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Jesus as a Working Class Hero: Resignifying religion in Spanish music (three examples)
Read more: Jesus as a Working Class Hero: Resignifying religion in Spanish music (three examples)The story of the life and death of Jesus is arguably the most ubiquitous story ever told. Translated to every language, vastly circulated, taught in schools all around the world, conservative groups –except for some exemptions, like Liberation Theology- have…
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Herself
Read more: HerselfHerself.com may not be safe for work, but it FEELS safe for work. That’s how intimate and gorgeous the shots of these naked women are, they transcend, for some, the feeling that you are looking at the taboo. You are…
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The Procession of the Holy Cunt: Feminist Activism during Holy Week in Spain
Read more: The Procession of the Holy Cunt: Feminist Activism during Holy Week in SpainEven though Spain is constitutionally defined as a non-confessional nation, the Catholic Church still holds great power. For example, the Catholic Church is exempt from paying certain taxes, and can reclaim certain buildings as their property. This often creates frictions…
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#manifestjustice
Read more: #manifestjusticeIn the wake of the amount of police brutality that has been occurring since the dawn of the damn police, an institution that began as a way to find escaped slaves, across the United States, #manisfestjustice chooses to make its…
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The Vulvatron
Read more: The VulvatronThe Vulvatron was created specifically for Burning Man 2014. A multi-sensory experience, the Vulvatron attempts to communicate to those whom interact with it a distinctly feminine mystery. What is woman? In a world that has politicized, exoticized, sexualized, objectified, made…
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Not Ready to Make Nice: 30th Anniversary of Guerrilla Girls
Read more: Not Ready to Make Nice: 30th Anniversary of Guerrilla GirlsNOT READY TO MAKE NICE: GUERRILLA GIRLS BIRTHDAY 30 YEARS AND STILL COUNTING! BLOWOUT PARTY WITH DJ AND CAKE! Friday, May 15 8-10 PM • ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST, NY ALSO AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 GRAND ST,…
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An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective
Read more: An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA RetrospectiveAn Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective by Steff Yotka How did they ever make a Yoko Ono exhibit? The pop cultural icon is a figure either so beloved or so reviled that an individual’s…
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Quac: el Noticero (Quac the newletter)
Read more: Quac: el Noticero (Quac the newletter)From 1995 to 1997, Colombian families reunited in front of the TV to watch Quac: El Noticero, a comedy newletter performed by the comedian Jaime Garzon and the actor Diego Leon Hoyos. It has been the only space in which…
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Pamparadio
Read more: PamparadioAs part of USAID’s “My Comunidad-Mi Agua” program in Peru, “Pamparadio” was a radio show run by two adolescents from the community of Iquitos, a jungle province. Armed with a gigantic speaker on the top of a community center and…
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The Dollar Menu
Read more: The Dollar MenuEver get to thinking about how a food desert can pop up in the middle of a major city? One major reason is corporate fast food and manufactured goods. Food deserts are defined as urban neighborhoods and rural towns without…