Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Poetry to challenge GBV from an intersectional lens – the Sari Red
Read more: Poetry to challenge GBV from an intersectional lens – the Sari RedSari Red (1988), by Pratibha Parmar, is a visual poem. Made in memory of Kalbinder Kaur Hayre, a young Indian woman killed in 1985 in a racist attack in England, Sari Red eloquently examines the effect of the ever-present threat…
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Water Life
Read more: Water Life“Most people can’t imagine a futurist Africa,” says Ethiopian photographer Aïda Muluneh. She challenges this in her project, Water Life, exploring real-world issues with an otherworldly twist. Muluneh went to Dallol, Afar, Ethiopia, an extreme landscape where it is dry…
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Shining a spotlight on domestic violence – the Women’s House (Sunglasses) project
Read more: Shining a spotlight on domestic violence – the Women’s House (Sunglasses) projectCroatian artist Sanja Iveković started Women’s House (Sunglasses) in 1998 in collaboration with a women’s shelter in Zagreb and later with women’s shelters elsewhere in Europe and Asia. Iveković organised workshops with women in these shelters to produce plaster casts…
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Nadya Tolokonnikova – Pussy Riot: Punk’s Not Dead
Read more: Nadya Tolokonnikova – Pussy Riot: Punk’s Not DeadNadya Tolokonnikova is a Siberian artist and a creator of the feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot. Tolokonnikova’s political actions and wide-ranging performance interventions have established her as a leading voice in the fight against authoritarian power. During her residency,…
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Why Cakes Can Be a Powerful Form of Protest
Read more: Why Cakes Can Be a Powerful Form of ProtestLONG BEFORE WOMEN finally — though incompletely — won the right to vote in the United States in 1920, they were finding ways to influence politics. In late 18th-century New England, colonial women would make muster cakes — spiced, doorstop-heavy…
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Black Trans Archive Video Game
Read more: Black Trans Archive Video Game“Built from the ground up by Black trans coders and developers, The Black Trans Archive takes the form of a video game, allowing visitors to interact with its content in real-time, making their own contributions in the process. It’s also…
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Fem Queen: The Evolution, The Revolution, The Celebration!
Read more: Fem Queen: The Evolution, The Revolution, The Celebration!For the completion of her residency as the NYU Steinhardt 2023-24 Scholar-in-Residence, Dominique Jackson collaborated with NYU students to honor the fem queen (trans women) and their historical meaning to not only ballroom but popular culture at large. The event…
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Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey’s Violence
Read more: Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey’s ViolenceThe Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doğan was freed yesterday after nearly three years in prison, Hyperallergic reports. Doğan first caught the attention of the Turkish authorities back in 2017 with a watercolor that depicted a Kurdish district after Turkish…
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Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” Ignored Society’s Expectations of Women
Read more: Tracey Emin’s “My Bed” Ignored Society’s Expectations of WomenWhen Tracey Emin aired her dirty laundry in the 1999 Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain, she set a new standard for confessional art. She conceived of the installation, titled My Bed (1998), after a long, bedridden bender following a…
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Raise Your Umbrellas: How Denise Ho went from Cantopop queen to pro-democracy activist
Read more: Raise Your Umbrellas: How Denise Ho went from Cantopop queen to pro-democracy activistIn Hong Kong in 2014 the song Raise Your Umbrella by Denise Ho and Anthong Wong became an anthem for the pro-democracy movement known as the Umbrella Revolution. The song was written after police fired tear gas into the crowds…