Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Dad Writes Anti-Sexism Timewarp Letter to Daughter’s School
Read more: Dad Writes Anti-Sexism Timewarp Letter to Daughter’s SchoolWhen the boys were sent on a field trip to a hardware store and girls went to get their hair done, this modern dad didn’t get mad, he got hilarious. He wrote a letter notifying the school that there was…
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Felipe Romero Beltrán captures young migrants coming-of-age in Seville
Read more: Felipe Romero Beltrán captures young migrants coming-of-age in SevilleHorror stories about treacherous boat journeys from Africa to the Mediterranean far too often make headline news. The men, women and children fleeing their homes to start a new life in Europe become faceless numbers in the media, and are…
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Hedonistic pictures of Barcelona’s queer underworld
Read more: Hedonistic pictures of Barcelona’s queer underworldTopless queer men light spliffs on the beach. A trans man injects testosterone on the toilet. Drag queens nonchalantly scroll through their phones and smoke. These are just some of the images that make up the new book from Leo…
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Fashion’s biggest names are drawing penises for a great cause
Read more: Fashion’s biggest names are drawing penises for a great causeYou might think that pictures of dicks (usually unsolicited) aren’t particularly hard to come by on the internet. And most of those dick pics aren’t particularly expertly composed. But that’s not the case for Penile Papers, a new collection of…
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Carlota Guerrero’s erotic photos celebrate a surreal sense of femininity
Read more: Carlota Guerrero’s erotic photos celebrate a surreal sense of femininityFrom intimate portraits to urban performance art, the through line of photographer Carlota Guerrero’s work has always been her stripped back sense of feminine reverie: rumpled sheets and broken shells, translucent tights and long braids, dusty floors and bare chests.…
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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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Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justice
Read more: Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justiceMarisela Escobedo was 52 when she was shot dead on a sidewalk outside of the Government Palace of Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. She had set up camp in one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities – a place where people won’t…
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Ella Daish’s Giant Tampon
Read more: Ella Daish’s Giant TamponEnvironmental activist Ella Daish has created a giant tampon applicator as part of a protest against single-use plastic. The piece is made out of period plastic found polluting beaches, waterways, and local ecosystems in the UK. Daish sourced 1,200 applicators…
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Women Series: IUD 2014
Read more: Women Series: IUD 2014According to the World Health Organization, China is home to two-thirds of the world’s women who wear IUD devices. This is a form of contraception that was developed after World War II, and in essence, comes from discrimination against women.…