Projects tagged
Domestic Violence
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Kinshasa Costumes
Read more: Kinshasa CostumesThe collective Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle, a group of Kinshasa street performers turn their bodies into living sculptures, and use them to political ends. Among the artists is Jared, who regularly takes to the streets dressed as Robot…
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“Do You Hear Women Sing”
Read more: “Do You Hear Women Sing”On Nov 24, 2013, more than 10 Chinese feminist activists sang the feminist song “Do You Hear Women Sing” in the cabin of Beijing Metro Line 13 (adapted from the famous song “Do You Hear the People Sing” in the…
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Song 33
Read more: Song 33After J.Cole posted a song that implies that Noname can get her message across to a wider audience if she changes her tone, she releases another song in response. However, instead of explicitly responding to his critique, she uses the…
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Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul Convention
Read more: Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul ConventionIt has been a tumultuous and anxious week for women in Turkey. When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree at midnight last Friday, annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, women poured onto the streets…
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Demonstrators hold “flower strikes” across the restive country
Read more: Demonstrators hold “flower strikes” across the restive countryOpponents of military rule in Myanmar have marched, observed “flower strikes” and sought alternative ways to communicate after most users were cut off from the internet, undaunted by the bloody suppression of protests during the past two months. The authorities,…
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Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the World
Read more: Artists Across Myanmar Are Making Protest Art to Share Their Struggle for Democracy With the WorldMyanmar has been engulfed in protest since February 1, when Burmese army general Min Aung Hlaing seized control of the government in a military coup, refusing to accept the landslide election victory of the National League for Democracy and its…
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Jiangshanjiao, do they talk to you like this?
Read more: Jiangshanjiao, do they talk to you like this?On Feb 17, 2020, the official account of The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League on Weibo announced the launch of its virtual idols “Hongqiman” and “Jiangshanjiao”, and set up a new official microblog, and called on people to…
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The Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project
Read more: The Domestic Violence Milk Carton ProjectPeggy Digg’s The Domestic Violence Milk Carton Project consisted of an image printed by Tuscan Dairy Farms on over one million milk cartons, which were distributed during January and February of 1992 throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware,…
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The Chronicles of Resilience
Read more: The Chronicles of ResilienceFor FX Harsono, art is activism. Over the past four decades, performance, sculpture, and painting have become his means of nonviolent protest against government autocracy and ethnic strife in Indonesia. In his current exhibition The Chronicles of Resilience, curated by…
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Between the World and Me
Read more: Between the World and MeBetween the World and Me by Richard Wright And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms And the sooty details of the…