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AIDS Awareness Ribbon

Date:
Mar 12 1991

From 99 Percent Invisible: By the late 1980s, AIDS had been in the United States for almost a decade. AIDS became the number one killer of young men in New York City, then of young men in the country, then…

AmplifyHER and AnimateHER

Practitioner:
Ten One Films

Date:
Mar 12 1991

Amplify HER is a visually dynamic, character driven feature documentary that offers intimate access into the lives of numerous emerging female artists. By combining ecstatic energy and feminine artistry, these talented young women in the global electronic music scene are…

Sunaura Taylor

Practitioner:
Sunaura Taylor

Date:
Mar 12 1991

Sunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist. Through painting, printmaking, writing and other forms of political and artistic engagement her work intervenes with dominant historical narratives of disability and animal oppression. Taylor’s artworks have been exhibited at venues across…

Her/She Senses: Imag(in)ed Malady

Practitioner:
Angela Ellsworth and Tina Takemoto

Date:
Mar 12 1991

Tina Takemoto is an artist and associate professor of visual studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work examines issues of race, queer identity, memory, and grief. Her current project explores the hidden dimensions of same-sex…

Herself

Practitioner:
Caitlin Stasey, Hannah Terry-Whyte, Keenan MacWilliam

Date:
Mar 12 1991

Herself.com may not be safe for work, but it FEELS safe for work. That’s how intimate and gorgeous the shots of these naked women are, they transcend, for some, the feeling that you are looking at the taboo. You are…

The Procession of the Holy Cunt: Feminist Activism during Holy Week in Spain

Practitioner:
Feminist Organizations

Date:
Mar 12 1991

Even though Spain is constitutionally defined as a non-confessional nation, the Catholic Church still holds great power. For example, the Catholic Church is exempt from paying certain taxes, and can reclaim certain buildings as their property. This often creates frictions…

#manifestjustice

Practitioner:
Manifest Justice

Date:
Mar 12 1991

In the wake of the amount of police brutality that has been occurring since the dawn of the damn police, an institution that began as a way to find escaped slaves, across the United States, #manisfestjustice chooses to make its…

The Vulvatron

Practitioner:
The Vulvatron

Date:
Mar 12 1991

The Vulvatron was created specifically for Burning Man 2014. A multi-sensory experience, the Vulvatron attempts to communicate to those whom interact with it a distinctly feminine mystery. What is woman? In a world that has politicized, exoticized, sexualized, objectified, made…

Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art World

Practitioner:
Guillermo Gomez-Peña

Date:
Mar 12 1991

In this solo work, Gómez-Peña tests brand new material dealing with radical citizenship and what he terms “imaginary activism,” combining live art, literature, theory, and pedagogy in a wonderfully strange mix. Not one solo performance is ever the same. Gómez-Peña…

Vaginal Knitting

Practitioner:
Casey Jenkins

Date:
Mar 12 1991

“Vaginal Knitting” Is the New Thing in Activist Performance Art by Adam Weinstein Casey Jenkins identifies herself as a former “craftivist”—a term she defines as “using traditional craft techniques for a political or social activism purpose.” She and her colleagues…