Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque
Read more: Chlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed BurlesqueChlamydia dell’Arte: A Sex-Ed BurlesqueYou’ve never taken a sex-ed class like this one!First performed in the 2009 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, followed by a run in Washington, DC in 2010, and in New York in 2012, CHLAMYDIA DELL’ARTE: A SEX-ED BURLESQUE is…
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#ProjectTMI
Read more: #ProjectTMIProject TMI: The Feminist Humor Defense Against the Assault on Our Bodies by Ramey Connelly, Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project t’s a strange sensation to start something as a joke, expecting that only your friends on Facebook will see it, and then…
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It’s MY Body
Read more: It’s MY BodyIt’s My Body! was initially a project for Stephen Duncombe’s Media Activism class during Spring 2012. We designed and developed the concept for the class, but have yet to set up the actual website. The images below show the site’s…
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Mama’s Day Our Way
Read more: Mama’s Day Our WayBy Latoya Peterson, Racialicious Looking for a way to celebrate the folks who raised you–but from a slightly different perspective than you would get down at Hallmark? The good people over at Strong Families (a project of Forward Together/Asian Communities…
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Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teen’s Photoshop Petition
Read more: Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teen’s Photoshop PetitionSeventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started an online petition to ask the magazine to curb its use of Photoshop. Although the magazine accepted the petition and its nearly 25,000 signatures when Bluhm went to deliver it in…
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Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with Safe Streets
Read more: Yemen Women Use Digital Tech to Improve Society with Safe StreetsFrom Women’s News NetworkYEMEN: Even though the connection to the internet has been intermittent at best and often too slow, women advocates in Yemen are now working to push digital tech as a means to improve society and gain human…
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Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison Corporations
Read more: Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World’s Biggest Prison CorporationsFrom Mother JonesBy James RidgewayTomorrow, at the annual meeting of Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s largest private prison company, shareholder activist Alex Friedmann will have exactly two minutes to speak about the unconventional resolution he introduced earlier this year…
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Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on Women
Read more: Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on WomenBy Lauren Barbato, Ms Magazine Blog “I find this onslaught of anti-women legislation repulsive,” says 23-year-old Amanda Velez. “These proposed laws condescend to a level where women are treated as something much less than human.” A resident of Elizabethtown, Kentucky,…
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Morocco protest against rape-marriage law
Read more: Morocco protest against rape-marriage lawBy Nora Fakim, BBC News Several hundred women’s rights activists have demonstrated outside Morocco’s parliament to demand the repeal of a law on sexual violence. Morocco’s penal code allows a rapist to marry his victim if she is a minor…
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Corporations Ain’t People
Read more: Corporations Ain’t PeopleCorporations Ain’t People: A Musical Protest September 14, 2010; YES Magazine When Target spent $150,000 to support a Minnesota politician who favors anti-gay legislation, thousands of people decided to boycott the big-box chain. But instead of simply shopping elsewhere, these…