Projects tagged
Religion
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Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker Meeting
Read more: Benjamin Lay spills blood at 1738 Quaker MeetingIt was September 1738, and Benjamin Lay had walked 20 miles, subsisting on “acorns and peaches,” to reach the Quakers’ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Beneath his overcoat he wore a military uniform and a sword — both anathema to Quaker teachings.…
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#CronicaDaMorteAnunciada
Read more: #CronicaDaMorteAnunciadaAcción #CronicaDaMorteAnunciada que consistió en la creación de 9 estandartes con informaciones sobre asesinatos a “País do Santo” para denunciar sus muertes por motivos de racismo afroreligioso en la ciudad de Belém, Brasil. La acción resalta la violencia letal contra…
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Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World
Read more: Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the WorldThe exhibition “Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World” included work by five New York City area artists that examined a range of social and political issues and offered companion special events. The exhibit, curated by Aileen Bassis, presented…
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White Clergy Spark Debate By Telling Cops #UseMeInstead For Target Practice
Read more: White Clergy Spark Debate By Telling Cops #UseMeInstead For Target PracticeA group of clergy members wanted to change the conversation when they heard that a Florida police department was using mug shots of young black men as targets for shooting practice. “#UseMeInstead,” the religious leaders said, tweeting photos of themselves…
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One Of My Kind, Championing Muslim Women in The Zine World
Read more: One Of My Kind, Championing Muslim Women in The Zine WorldThe questions that London-based collective One Of My Kind (aka OOMK) explore are those of identity and belonging—issues that are experienced by everyone regardless of whether they grew up defining themselves based on the music they listen to, the hobbies…
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The “marriage effect”
Read more: The “marriage effect”Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The “marriage effect” clause sees convicted rapists given…
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For Warmth
Read more: For WarmthThich Nhat Hanh reads his poem “For Warmth” in Vietnamese, Krista Tippett reads the translation in English, excerpted from the episode “Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism.” Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country…
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Perception and the Garbage People
Read more: Perception and the Garbage PeopleThe streets of the Cairo suburb Manshiyat Naser, nicknamed “Garbage City,” are lined with trash, and the people who live there — Coptic Christians who make their living sorting through it and recycling anything they can — are called zabaleen,…
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Not All Like That
Read more: Not All Like ThatJohn Shore and his wife Catherine had been attending the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego for six years when they were nominated to serve as deacons. But before they could be ordained, they were asked to sign a document…
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Mexico Burns Effigies of Donald Trump in Easter Celebrations
Read more: Mexico Burns Effigies of Donald Trump in Easter CelebrationsMEXICO-US-HOLY-WEEK-TRUMP Credit: YURI CORTEZ / Stringer Caption:Mexican’s hang an effigy representing US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump before being set on fire, March 26, 2016 in Mexico City during Holy Week celebrations. For many years Mexicans have made cardboard figures…