Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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What Kind of Man are You?
Read more: What Kind of Man are You?In a dark nod to International Women’s Day, artist aleXsandro Palombo has turned to the world of cartoon characters to shed light on the horrors of domestic violence. His series, “No Violence Against Women,” transforms iconic animated women into victims…
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Human Genitals Dinner
Read more: Human Genitals DinnerIn a private Tokyo dinner party artist Mao Sugiyama served his genitals to five of the events guests. Several months prior to the event he chose to have his genitals surgically removed. He released invitations to the event on social…
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Lift the Skirt / What the Skirt Lifts / What the Skirt Raises
Read more: Lift the Skirt / What the Skirt Lifts / What the Skirt RaisesWhat the Skirt Lifts is a day long protest against gender discrimination initiated by student Arthur Moinet and sanctioned by the Académie de Nantes, made up of local school officials. Both male and female students were encouraged to school wearing…
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#ShoutingBack with Coasters
Read more: #ShoutingBack with CoastersThe group of NYU graduate students went to bars in Manhattan to shout back against sexual harassment and bring awareness to the Everyday Sexism project. Armed with coasters that said “#shoutingback” on them, as well as a slogan. Three different…
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#ShoutingBack with Business Cards
Read more: #ShoutingBack with Business CardsThe group of students from NYU took to the streets of Manhattan to shout back against sexual harassment and bring awareness to the Everyday Sexism project. Armed with business cards that said “#shoutingback” on one side, and “Real men don’t…
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Barbie Liberation Organization
Read more: Barbie Liberation OrganizationOn Christmas day in 1993, kids were finding more than they bargained for under their trees: Mattel’s new talking Barbie dolls growled “Dead men tell no lies,” while Hasbro’s macho GI Joe’s chirped “I love to shop with you.” Enter…
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A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…
Read more: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…Text taken from Creative Time website: To say there is a riddle lurking in the sugar-coated monument conceived by Kara Walker may be an understatement as big as the sculpture itself. A massive sphinx-turned-mammy, she stands mute, looking outward, acting…
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Sluts Across America
Read more: Sluts Across AmericaIn 2012, Sandra Fluke stood up in front of Democratic members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to advocate for the mandatory inclusion of birth control coverage in health insurance. Republicans on the committee refused to allow her…
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#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS
Read more: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLSBoth the Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States of America, and David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, have been photographed holding signs with this hashtag in support of the still missing, kidnapped Nigerian girls. “The…
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Santorum
Read more: Santorum“The campaign for the neologism “santorum” started with a contest held in May 2003 by Dan Savage, a columnist and LGBT rights activist. Savage asked his readers to create a definition for the word “santorum”[1][2] in response to then-U.S. Senator…