Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Make Love, Not Porn
Read more: Make Love, Not PornAt TED2009, audience member Cindy Gallop gave a 4-minute presentation that became one of the event’s most talked about. Speaking from her personal experience, she argued that hardcore pornography had distorted the way a generation of young men think about…
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Rap Against Rape
Read more: Rap Against RapeUnder the moniker BomBaebs, Pankhuri Awasthi and Uppekha Jain rap about rape, cultural stereotypes, religious biases, and hypocrisy surrounding sexism and gender biases in India. They open the video with a disclaimer, warning that “This video doesn’t have any explicit…
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Always ‘Like a Girl’ Says the Female Emojis Are Terrible
Read more: Always ‘Like a Girl’ Says the Female Emojis Are TerribleMost brands have expressed eternal love for emojis in recent years, as they try to talk the talk of young people today. Not so fast, says Always’ “Like a Girl” campaign, which points out in a new ad that the…
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Taking Feminist Battle to China’s Streets, and Landing in Jail
Read more: Taking Feminist Battle to China’s Streets, and Landing in JailThe young Chinese feminists shaved their heads to protest inequality in higher education and stormed men’s restrooms to highlight the indignities women face in their prolonged waits at public toilets. To publicize domestic violence, two prominent activists, Li Tingting and…
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Of Death and Disco Balls: Nightlife Art
Read more: Of Death and Disco Balls: Nightlife ArtAn oversized facsimile of Rush poppers, tipped over, pouring out its viscous contents: this example of underground gay iconography blown up to almost belligerent proportions perfectly represents the aims of Party Out of Bounds: Nightlife as Activism Since 1980, a…
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12 year old bride in Times Square
Read more: 12 year old bride in Times SquareIn order to raise awareness about the global issue of arranged child marriages, 21-year-old YouTube star Coby Persin decided to push the envelope by asking a 12-year-old ‘bride’ to pose with a 65-year-old ‘groom’ in the middle of Times Square.…
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Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscars
Read more: Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscarshttps://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-h… External sources: https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-happens-t…
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Arming Sisters
Read more: Arming SistersWhen Patricia Stonefish returned home to the United States from Egypt in 2014, she brought with her a new outlook for conceptualizing women’s self defense. Having seen firsthand the benefits and empowerment of Taekwando/ Hapkido/ Gumdo classes for Egyptian women…
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Social Experiment: 65-Year-Old Man Tries To Marry A 12-Year-Old Girl In NYC
Read more: Social Experiment: 65-Year-Old Man Tries To Marry A 12-Year-Old Girl In NYCThe statistics in regards to older men marrying young girls is mind boggling and disgusting. Every day 33,000 girls are married to older men, denied their rights to education and opportunity and robbed of their childhood. Many countries around the…
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Abortion Drone; first flight to Poland
Read more: Abortion Drone; first flight to PolandOn Saturday June 27 th the Abortion drone flies for the first time packages of abortion pills from Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany to Słubice in Poland. The campaign is a collaboration between Women on Waves; Cocia Basia, a…