Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Sarah Sophie Flicker: Why the Arts Are Essential to a Strong Resistance Movement
Read more: Sarah Sophie Flicker: Why the Arts Are Essential to a Strong Resistance MovementSarah Sophie Flicker, one of the many organizers of the women’s march speaks about the importance of Arts and Resistance —— [excerpt] Nina Simone once said, “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.” Long before I considered myself a…
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Artist Using Cameras inside Her Vagina to Explore Female Gaze and Body
Read more: Artist Using Cameras inside Her Vagina to Explore Female Gaze and BodyAs the female gaze comes to the fore, artists are beginning to examine and explore the possibilities of what exists, what it is to be a woman looking at the world outside of her self. For American artist Dani Lessnau,…
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A Day in the Life of An Escort
Read more: A Day in the Life of An EscortA photo project/online feed to increase visibility of sex workers and increase the sex workers’ sense of community of voice, in response to a spate of violence against the community in Ireland. The project led to a piece in The…
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Sex Worker Stories
Read more: Sex Worker StoriesA series of creative workshops for sex workers, including a 7-day workshop modeled on the C4AA Art Action Academy. The workshops enabled sex workers to tell their own stories, and shift the narratives and stigma around sex work, and videos…
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Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slaves
Read more: Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slavesBuses serving several routes in central Seoul have acquired a new and highly controversial passenger: a barefoot “comfort woman”, wearing a traditional hanbok dress with her hands resting on her knees. Appearing on the front seat of buses in the…
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Textile Meditations: Mary Fisher and Friends
Read more: Textile Meditations: Mary Fisher and FriendsMary Fisher wears many hats: Artist, author, and HIV/AIDS activist are just a few. The latter is perhaps what she’s known best for—her influential speech at the 1992 Republication National Convention is regarded as one of the greatest American speeches…
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A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas
Read more: A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas“A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is a thinker’s lollapalooza. The free, 12-hour weekend lyceum at the Brooklyn Public Library includes spirited debate, live music, theater, performance art pieces, and film screenings. At any given hour, five or six different…
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“Say No to Pig Hand”: Anti Public Transport Sexual Harassment
Read more: “Say No to Pig Hand”: Anti Public Transport Sexual HarassmentLeilei Zhang was harassed on a public bus when a man gripped her hand, glared at her and refused to let go. With the determination to raise public awareness, Leilei began a crowd-funding campaign to raise money for what could…
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GLOBAL PEACE WALKWAY VR PEACE MUSEUM PROJECT
Read more: GLOBAL PEACE WALKWAY VR PEACE MUSEUM PROJECTImagine affecting the global cultural Landscape through art and technology use. Imagine one-mile long installation in 100 city locations worldwide, each mile-long install is of 250 bronze plaques of different Peacemakers. Then imagine its own App that when any smartphone…
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Art Therapist for Human Rights
Read more: Art Therapist for Human RightsWe demand that AATA respond to Karen Pence’s stated commitment to our field by asking her to publicly take action for the rights of LGBTQIA people, Native people, Black and Brown people, Muslims, survivors of sexual assault, people with disabilities,…