Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Activists Illustrated – Women at the Heart of Global Struggles
Read more: Activists Illustrated – Women at the Heart of Global StrugglesLatin American Artist María María Acha-Kutscher takes photographs from social and feminist movements and turns them into stunning pop art illustrations. ” Indignadas (Outraged Women) consists of a visual record of participation of women in public protests around the world,…
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The Resurgence of Women-Only Art Shows
Read more: The Resurgence of Women-Only Art ShowsAt the peak of her career in 1976, Georgia O’Keeffe refused to lend her work to a pivotal exhibition in Los Angeles, “Women Artists: 1550 to 1950.” It was one of a wave of all-female shows — some 150 —…
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Badass Indian Pinups
Read more: Badass Indian Pinups“Badass Indian Pinups” is a series of paintings by Indo-Canadian artist Nimisha Bhanot, that features paintings of Indian women being confident and sexually liberated. Bhanot was in art school in 2012, when the gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey took…
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Vangardist HIV+ Magazine
Read more: Vangardist HIV+ MagazineHIV is still among the top 10 leading causes of death in the world, ranking sixth with around 1.5 million deaths each year. Around 35 million people are currently infected with HIV, and cases are worryingly on the rise—it is…
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What the Skirt Lifts
Read more: What the Skirt Lifts“What the Skirt Lifts”, created by a student in France, is a day long protest against gender discrimination where male and female students were encouraged to wear skirts to school. External sources: https://actipedia.org/project/lift-skirt-what-skirt-lifts-what-skirt-raises https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10834551/French-schoolbo… https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lift-skirt-causes-french-boys-drop-trousers-day-1448851 https://www.rt.com/news/159380-boys-skirts-france-protest/
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Enchanted Dolls
Read more: Enchanted DollsThe Enchanted Doll is the famous brand of the Russian jeweler artist and designer Marina Bychkova who makes absolutely incredible porcelain and polyurethane dolls for adults. Marina was born in the city of Novokuznetsk in the USSR and since 1997…
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Unwrapped
Read more: UnwrappedThis performative art took place at a series called SUBLIME at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by the collective SAWCC (pronounced saucy)- South Asian Women’s Creative Collective. Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and activist whose work includes painting, printmaking,…
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The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World Inequality
Read more: The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World InequalityIt’s women’s history month, and your favorite radical feminist avengers want you to go ape. The Guerrilla Girls have been making noise about gender and racial inequality in the art world since 1985. Fighting discrimination with a sense of humor…
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Protest Posters for Fees Must Fall
Read more: Protest Posters for Fees Must FallDaniel Hewson describes the use of protest posters and the work of collective, Burning Museum, and artist, Faith47, in the Fees Must Fall movement taking place in South Africa: “The protest poster movement is still alive and vibrant in South…
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Jessica’s Feminized Atmosphere
Read more: Jessica’s Feminized AtmosphereJessica Williams talks about women’s experiences with street harassment in New York with a satirical approach on how to avoid this unwanted attention. https://www.cc.com/video-clips/5ndnit/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-jes… External sources: https://www.cc.com/video-clips/5ndnit/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-jessica-s-f…