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LOGIC’S ‘1-800-273-8255’ OFFERS AN HONEST TAKE ON SUICIDE & AMERICAN YOUTH

Practitioner:
Logic

Date:
Apr 28 2017

Logic, a rapper known to incorporate meaningful messages with his music, recently released his newest track, “1-800-273-8255.” Covering topics of depression and suicide, the song and its subsequent music video uses the phone number of a national suicide hotline as…

Sister Activism: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Practitioner:
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Date:
Apr 28 2017

If you’ve been to a Bay Area protest or community event, you’ve probably seen — or even met those nuns in whiteface — The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Devoted to human rights globally and locally, AIDS education, and respect for…

Pop Art Politics

Practitioner:
Keith Haring

Date:
Apr 28 2017

It’s this symbolism and the characters that repeatedly appear in Haring’s work that provide the backbone of an exhibition opening March 16, 2018 at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. On view through June 24, 2018, “Keith Haring. The Alphabet,” comprises…

Chinese High School Students Making Film about Trans Gender

Practitioner:
Hu Ranan

Date:
Apr 28 2017

A high school student from The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China Made a Movie about “Sexual Minorities”, a Topic Avoided By Almost Every Parent. How Should We Start Talking About This?” was widely circulated among people on…

Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest

Practitioner:
Barnard

Date:
Apr 28 2017

“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest,…

Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI

Practitioner:
Iranti

Date:
Apr 28 2017

ONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…

Keith Haring’s AIDS Activism

Practitioner:
Keith Haring

Date:
Apr 28 2017

Keith Haring was an American artist and activist in 1980s New York, whose artwork raised awareness on social issues at the time. One the main awareness campaigns Haring participated on was AIDS awareness and activism. As an openly gay man…

A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender

Practitioner:
Lee Mokobe

Date:
Apr 28 2017

“I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered,” says poet Lee Mokobe, a TED Fellow, in this gripping and poetic exploration of identity and transition. It’s a thoughtful reflection on bodies, and the meanings poured…

NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others

Practitioner:
Johanna Toruno

Date:
Apr 28 2017

You’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not…

General Idea and the AIDS crises

Practitioner:
General Idea Collective

Date:
Apr 28 2017

The Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and ’80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus. A retrospective presented…