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History of Korean Women

Date:
Jun 22 1993

In the series The History of Korean Women, Cho’s suggests that the cost of that gain cannot be paid for by a cultural amnesia masking the pain and suffering of previous generations. Here the semantic emphasis is on the official…

ChallengeAccepted: empowering women

Practitioner:
global online users, Women in Turkey

Date:
Jun 22 1993

#ChallengeAccepted, also known as the Challenge Accepted campaign, is an Instagram tagged challenge as well as an awareness campaign on empowering women involving sharing posts of black-and-white selfies. The Instagram challenge was launched alongside another hashtag campaign #WomenSupportingWomen with the…

The vital work of women street photographers

Practitioner:
Gulnara Samoilova

Date:
Jun 22 1993

In 2016, photojournalist Gulnara Samoilova was running a successful wedding photography business. Her diverse portfolio of work spans two decades — with images in the permanent collections of The New York Public Library, 9/11 Memorial Museum and Houston Museum of…

Women turned Protective Wall into a memorial

Practitioner:
mexican women

Date:
Jun 22 1993

Ahead of Monday’s planned protest, police set up a barricade around the presidential palace, which a spokesperson described as a “peace wall” to prevent vandalism, the Guardian reported. But protesters said the barrier was symbolic of the president’s refusal to…

#IAmMySong

Practitioner:
Afghan girls, Ahmad Sarmast

Date:
Jun 22 1993

In response to a memo from Afghanistan’s education ministry, Ahmad Sarmast, the founder of Afghanistan’s Institute of Music, began a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #IAmMySong. In response to the hashtag, Afghan girls have taken to Twitter with videos of…

Breastfeeding protest in food court

Practitioner:
Bendigo Moms Facebook group, Luci White

Date:
Jun 22 1993

Dozens of moms organized a breastfeeding protest at an Australian mall after nursing mom Luci White was asked to leave the food court. White says she was finishing up her lunch at Bendigo Marketplace, about 90 minutes outside Melbourne, when…

Jiangshanjiao, do they talk to you like this?

Date:
Jun 22 1993

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…

Bicycles as a vehicle for protest in Guatemala

Practitioner:
Guatemalean girls

Date:
Jun 22 1993

Non-profit organizations and a multitude of Guatemalan girls protested together demanding justice and security from the government. Guatemala’s insecurity and cases of girls’ disappearances have increased over the years. The protest started outside the Government Ministery (Ministerio de Gobernación) early…

Kissing Doesn’t Kill and other projects

Practitioner:
Gran Fury

Date:
Jun 22 1993

Gran Fury was an AIDS activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members, all artists – but action, not art, was the aim of the collective. Gran Fury member Loring McAlpin described the collective’s mass-market ambition to…

“What were you wearing?” Survivor Art Installation

Practitioner:
Jen Brockman and Mary Wyandt-HIebert

Date:
Jun 22 1993

It is an art installation that tells the story of 18 victims of sexual assault and what were they wearing at that time. “What were you wearing?” It’s an accusatory and suggestive question that people often ask victims of sexual…