Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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How one small Barbie doll took on the art world
Read more: How one small Barbie doll took on the art worldMuseums and art galleries are not usually the sites of feminist political protest. Yet over the past couple of years, before the lockdown, gallery visitors all over the UK had noticed a small, determined activist whose modus operandi is “Small…
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“That’s not art it’s Victorian porn!” – how one small Barbie doll took on the art world
Read more: “That’s not art it’s Victorian porn!” – how one small Barbie doll took on the art worldMuseums and art galleries are not usually the sites of feminist political protest. Yet over the past couple of years, before the lockdown, gallery visitors all over the UK had noticed a small, determined activist whose modus operandi is “Small…
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The Sexist of the Year
Read more: The Sexist of the YearThis week’s Swede of the Week is Tomas Gunnarsson, whose quest to find Sweden’s “Sexist of the Year” has found a viral following across the country. He says Swedes who buy into the ‘most equal country in the world’ label…
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Activism Through Art by an Angry Feminist Whale
Read more: Activism Through Art by an Angry Feminist WhaleInspired by the ecological disaster unfolding across the planet and driven by empowering underrepresented people, Moule, a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer, creates art that makes a statement. Dressed in a magenta blazer and wearing bright pink lipstick, she is…
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Big Bossa
Read more: Big BossaWajiha Jendoubi is an actress and one of Tunisia’s best-known comedians. To be a woman comedian in this North African nation can be a challenge, but the country’s gender gap is narrowing for the first time in almost a decade…
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FEMALE WORKERS AT SHOP IN JAPAN ASKED TO WEAR BADGES IF ON THEIR PERIOD TO COMBAT STIGMA
Read more: FEMALE WORKERS AT SHOP IN JAPAN ASKED TO WEAR BADGES IF ON THEIR PERIOD TO COMBAT STIGMAFemale staff members at a new shop in Osaka, Japan are being encouraged to wear badges to indicate when they’re on their period to tackle the stigma surrounding menstruation in the country. Women working at the Michi Kake store, which…
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In Mexico, Women Go on Strike Nationwide to Protest Violence
Read more: In Mexico, Women Go on Strike Nationwide to Protest ViolenceMEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of women vanished from streets, offices and classrooms across Mexico on Monday, part of a nationwide strike to protest the violence they suffer and to demand government action against it. The women’s absence from…
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Blued
Read more: BluedHow a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet Blued, one of the biggest gay dating apps in the world, has succeeded because it plays by the ever-shifting rules for L.G.B.T.Q. China — bringing together…
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The Ugly Conference
Read more: The Ugly ConferenceLast November, when you Googled the phrase “ugly Black woman,” Vanessa Rochelle Lewis’s photograph was the second to come up. “Which I’m offended by,” says Lewis, a Bay Area–based artist and writer, “since I’m an Aries and I like to…
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The Fearless Girl Statue
Read more: The Fearless Girl StatueOn the eve of International Women’s Day and the one-year anniversary of its SPDR®SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (ticker: SHE), State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is calling on the more…