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Her/She Senses: Imag(in)ed Malady

Practitioner:
Angela Ellsworth and Tina Takemoto

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Tina 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…

#manifestjustice

Practitioner:
Manifest Justice

Date:
Dec 1 1993

In 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…

Queer Crisis (4.25.2014)

Practitioner:
Queer Crisis Flash Collective

Date:
Dec 1 1993

An intervention created by the April 25 2015 Queer Crisis Collective organized by the Helix Queer Performance Network (HQPN), and part of an ongoing queer resistance project mentored by Avram Finkelstein. Over a period of 2 weekends, 8 artists met…

Manifest Justice

Practitioner:
Manifest Justice

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Last August, as protesters marched in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old unarmed teen shot by a police officer, another group of activists began thinking about how to incorporate the creative community into the movement. The…

A Straight Journey: days and nights in their kingdom

Practitioner:
Masamojo

Date:
Dec 1 1993

A Straight Journey is a documentary of Chinese homosexual people. It is the first time for Chinese gays and lesbians to make their debut and speak out via one of the largest Chinese Internet service providers. Two Chinese photographers Masa…

Dark Matter

Practitioner:
Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Dark Matter is a trans South Asian performance art duo comprised of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, a prominent pair of voices operating at the intersection of the arts and activism. The work of Dark Matter is complicated, much like…

#LaLigaArcoIris: Rainbow Shoelaces Against Homophobia

Practitioner:
Federación de Lesbianas, Gais, Transexuales y Bisexuales (FELGTB)

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Spanish soccer has witnessed and engaged in a variety of conversations in the last few years: Racism, politics, xenophobia, territorial issues, corruption, inmigration. However, there is an issue that remains untouched, and this issue is homophobia. Soccer is still a…

Music video in support of gay marriage rights

Practitioner:
Sam Smith

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Grammy nominee and Rolling Stone cover star Sam Smith unveiled the video for his new single “Lay Me Down,” the latest track off his platinum-selling debut album In the Lonely Hour. The video, filmed at the parish church of St.…

Fabled Asp

Practitioner:
Fabled Asp

Date:
Dec 1 1993

Fabled Asp is a multimedia online archive that documents forty years of activist history and creativity. Disabled lesbian activism is a radical assertion of self in the face of societal stigma and marginalization. The project illuminates the myriad ways disabled…

“Great Men” – Marlene Dumas at Manifesta 10

Practitioner:
Manifesta 10, Marlene Dumas

Date:
Dec 1 1993

AMSTERDAM — “When I was in the army, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.” So reads the text beneath a haunting ink-and-metallic acrylic portrait of Leonard Maltovich, an American veteran of…