Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Play Smart 2010
Read more: Play Smart 2010Play Smart a series of yearly events where photographers and designers are gathered and designed cards to trade. It has lasted from 2010 to this year. Play Smart 2010 is the first in the series. In 2010, Play Smart featured…
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Cheering Girls into STEM
Read more: Cheering Girls into STEMDespite the pushes to motivate more young girls into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, women are still very underrepresented in almost every scientific field. Part of this motivation is because a lot of young girls would rather do…
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#1000BlackGirlBooks
Read more: #1000BlackGirlBooksFrom Jezebel: Marley Dias is an 11-year-old New Jersey resident who’s rounding up children’s books that feature black female leads so that she and her peers have more fictional characters to look up to. The project, titled #1000BlackGirlBooks, started when…
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Burkaphilia
Read more: BurkaphiliaWhen Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d…
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Las hijas de Violencia
Read more: Las hijas de ViolenciaBorn as a side project Las hijas de Violencia approaches the subject of street harassment and gender based violence through performance art, punk and video that is addressing socially legitimized male violence. “As actresses and as women we feel directly…
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No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.
Read more: No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.Daniel Arzola, a digital artist and activist originally from Maracay, Venezuela, began his series, ‘No Soy Tu Chiste’ (‘I Am Not A Joke’) in 2013 intent on combating the stereotypes and cruelty so often facing LGBT identifiers; youth in particular.…
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Estados de excepción
Read more: Estados de excepciónEstados de excepción (States of Exception) is series of participatory cultural interventions created for women to freely and joyfully exercise our rights in public and secure environments, currently being produced in Mexico and abroad. Conceived in response to the growing…
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Fanged Wilds and Women
Read more: Fanged Wilds and WomengrrrRoar! Ecology is sexier when you focus on women and fanged beasts. Fashions in leopard print help us make that connection globally and online. Polluters at least pause at the reminder that nature isn’t dead yet and in fact stirs…
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Putting a Trans Mark on the City of Berlin
Read more: Putting a Trans Mark on the City of BerlinAs part of an international workshop (10-11 October 2015) with the Center for Artistic Activism, 17 trans activists and artists from 13 European countries developed a creative campaign to mark some of the spaces in Berlin which have symbolic significance…
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With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold Statement
Read more: With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold StatementIn her peppy and helpful online video tutorial, Reshma Bano Quereshi promises to teach her viewers “how to get perfect red lips.” But unlike the more than 200,000 other online videos dedicated to the application of lipstick, this one goes…