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Iranian Women of Graphic Design

Practitioner:
Iranian Women Of Graphic Design

Date:
Dec 9 2022

Platform ‘Iranian Women of Graphic Design’ share open-access protest posters to amplify #WomenLifeFreedom movement—triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini—in Iran and beyond. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in hospital three days after being arrested by the morality…

Mattress Protest/Carry That Weight

Practitioner:
Emma Sulkowicz

Date:
Dec 9 2022

Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015) was a work of endurance/performance art which Emma Sulkowicz conducted as a senior thesis during the final year of a visual arts degree at Columbia University in New York City.[1] Begun in September 2014,…

Inside Out Project

Practitioner:
JR

Date:
Dec 9 2022

After winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement…

The Clothesline Project

Practitioner:
Rachel Carey-Harper

Date:
Dec 9 2022

According to the Men’s Rape Prevention Project in Washington DC, 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam war. During that same period of time, 51,000 women were killed mostly by men who supposedly loved them. In the summer of 1990, that…

Shining a spotlight on domestic violence – the Women’s House (Sunglasses) project

Practitioner:
Sanja Iveković

Date:
Dec 9 2022

Croatian artist Sanja Iveković started Women’s House (Sunglasses) in 1998 in collaboration with a women’s shelter in Zagreb and later with women’s shelters elsewhere in Europe and Asia. Iveković organised workshops with women in these shelters to produce plaster casts…

Sweden to tighten gun control laws after deadly shooting

Practitioner:
Oliver Moody

Date:
Dec 9 2022

The government will introduce more rigorous vetting procedures for firearms licences and restrict access to semi-automatic weapons. Sweden plans to toughen controls on gun ownership after its deadliest mass shooting in at least a century. A gunman with legitimate licences…

Abortion Access & Gender-Based Violence in Haiti

Practitioner:
Nègès Mawon

Date:
Dec 9 2022

Haiti is a conservative society where Roman Catholicism shapes many of its social norms. Patriarchal norms, says Haitian feminist Pascale Solages, co-founder and general coordinator of feminist organization Nègès Mawon, have informed its strict views on abortion. In Haiti, women…

This Photograph Put a Face on the Epidemic of Domestic Violence

Practitioner:
Donna Ferrato

Date:
Dec 9 2022

Photographer Donna Ferrato helped bring awareness to the epidemic of domestic violence in the United States through her raw and often graphic portraits of survivors of violence. But she fell into the work by accident after witnessing domestic violence firsthand.…

On Abortion

Practitioner:
Laia Abril

Date:
Dec 9 2022

On Abortion documents and conceptualises the dangers and damages caused by women’s lack of legal, safe and free access to abortion Under “natural” circumstances, the average woman would fall pregnant about 15 times in her life, resulting in ten births.…

We have to get beyond the shame’: Women of the World launches festival against sexual violence

Practitioner:
in partnership with Birkbeck, international and grassroots organisations and charities join forces with local artists and leading voices to address the global crisis of violence against women and sexual assault., University of London, will see national

Date:
Dec 9 2022

Gender equality charity Women of the World (WOW) is launching a one-day festival of activism that invites people from all generations, genders and backgrounds to take part in conversations around sexual violence. The festival, created in partnership with Birkbeck, University…