Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Shirin Neshat Addresses Iranian President at the WEF in Davos
Read more: Shirin Neshat Addresses Iranian President at the WEF in DavosShirin Neshat is an Iranian visual artist who works and resides in New York City. Her work refers to the social, political and religious codes of Muslim societies. She particularly addresses the psychological dimensions of women’s experience in contemporary islamic…
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Project Impact
Read more: Project ImpactProject IMPACT is an 8-week leadership-through-storytelling workshop for teen survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. The goal of Project IMPACT is to introduce survivors to the idea that sharing their stories is a powerful advocacy tool that can impact the legislative…
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A New Kind of Barbie
Read more: A New Kind of Barbie“Many people have criticized Barbie dolls for their unrealistic proportions, claiming that they give young girls a warped idea of what beauty should be. To tackle this problem, Nikolay Lamm created digital visualizations of a regular-sized “Barbie” doll, hoping to…
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For ‘Equal Pay Day’, An ATM That Gives Less Money To Men
Read more: For ‘Equal Pay Day’, An ATM That Gives Less Money To MenAs we’ve already found out, gender inequality exists in all parts of the world, but besides discriminative attitudes, women also suffer from wage discrimination. According to statistics, women’s earnings in the US “were 77% of men’s in 2011”, while in…
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Is A Barbie Body Possible?
Read more: Is A Barbie Body Possible?With her long slender limbs, small waist and ‘flawless complexion’ (at least when she has makeup on), it is no surprise that many young girls dream of being just like Barbie. However, it turns out that attaining Barbie’s dream bod…
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Nude Protests and Political Contradictions
Read more: Nude Protests and Political ContradictionsLast month Amina Tyler, a 19 year old Tunisian blogger, posted a nude photo of herself as a protest; she is now under death threat. In her defense, the Ukrainian group Femen [13] staged a global “topless jihad” [14] on…
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Feminism Gets Rebranded
Read more: Feminism Gets RebrandedFor the November issue of women’s magazine ELLE UK, agency W+K London teamed up with feminist cofounders of Vagenda, Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, to rebrand feminism. Frustrated with the way women are stereotyped and portrayed, Vagenda created a…
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#Stripforjackie: Lebanese Olympic skier sparks social media campaign about free speech
Read more: #Stripforjackie: Lebanese Olympic skier sparks social media campaign about free speechA Lebanese Olympic skier whose topless calendar prompted calls for a ministerial inquiry has unwittingly sparked a social media campaign backing her, with supporters stripping off in solidarity. Three years ago, Jackie Chamoun posed for a calendar photo shoot. Behind-the-scenes…
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Flash Mob Block Party
Read more: Flash Mob Block Party27Million aims to combat human sex trafficking and modern day slavery. They state that they are “a group of passionate individuals that are on a mission to network and resource grassroots organizations that are the frontlines of rescuing, rehabilitating, and…
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The Monument Quilt
Read more: The Monument QuiltThe Monument Quilt: a public healing space by and for survivors of rape and abuse. The Monument Quilt is a crowd-sourced collection of thousands of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. By stitching our stories together, we are creating…