Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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The What We Want
Read more: The What We WantIn 2013, and again in 2014, PCI Media Impact partnered with Professor David Gere and the UCLA Art & Global Health Center, to design and facilitate a 5-week communications workshop, entitled Soap Operas for Social Change. Throughout this intensive course,…
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Pads Against Sexism
Read more: Pads Against SexismThe latest in street art activism is confronting sexism in an unconventional, but wonderful, way. Street artist, Elonë, from Karlsruhe, Germany, is paving her city with messages against sexism, street harassment and sexual abuse — all printed on menstrual pads.…
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Not Photoshopped
Read more: Not PhotoshoppedFrom StyleCaster: The debate over body image seems like an uphill battle in the fashion industry. The industry seems as if it’s trying to change things by creating guidelines and rules for models and fashion shows, but it doesn’t look…
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Bringing Safe Sexy Back
Read more: Bringing Safe Sexy BackIs there a way to make sex ed, big, scary, nasty, icky, sex ed, fun again? In the Spring Quarter of of 2013, UCLA students in the Sex Squad, a performance troupe dedicated to injecting a dose of humor into…
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It Was Never A Dress
Read more: It Was Never A DressFrom Time Magazine: It’s not a dress—it’s a cape We’ve all seen the woman in the triangle dress that marks women’s bathrooms. But what if that triangle silhouette isn’t really a dress? That’s the idea of the new campaign called…
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Manifest Justice
Read more: Manifest JusticeLast August, as protesters marched in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old unarmed teen shot by a police officer, another group of activists began thinking about how to incorporate the creative community into the movement. The…
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#FreeTheNipple Icelandic Style
Read more: #FreeTheNipple Icelandic StyleIt all started when an Icelandic girl took off her top on Twitter in a bid to promote sexual equality, only for her to be verbally attacked by some male Icelandic tit troll. Despite both comments being deleted, Twitter was…
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Who Are You?
Read more: Who Are You?“I am the dishes, the ironing, I am everything, I am nothing. But remind me: Who are you?” So plays the hook of a new feminist anthem released by the Palestinian rappers, DAM. The video for “Who You Are” plays…
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Feminist Apparel and Anti-Street Harassment Week
Read more: Feminist Apparel and Anti-Street Harassment WeekAttention catcallers: the streets of New York City do not welcome you. A new campaign hopes to raise awareness about the prevalence of catcalling, which some international studies show between 70 to 99 percent of women face at some point…
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Free the Beijing Five
Read more: Free the Beijing FiveNancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: Five Chinese feminists have been arrested for planning to protest against sexual harassment. They face five to ten years in jail. This post explains the background to the case, and suggests ways that other…