Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Ovary Funny: Womens’ Rights Project Hopes to Have Members of Congress In Stitches
Read more: Ovary Funny: Womens’ Rights Project Hopes to Have Members of Congress In StitchesBY MIRANDA NEUBAUER | Friday, March 30 2012 Calling itself “Government Free VJJ,” a group started by three women after a conversation on Twitter is hosting an organizing initiative asking women to knit — or crochet! — a uterus for each man…
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Is He A Real Man? The “Vrai Djo” SFCG Project
Read more: Is He A Real Man? The “Vrai Djo” SFCG ProjectIn the Democratic Republic of Congo or DRC, sexual violence is a community-wide problem. Rape, in the DRC has been used as a weapon of war and sadly continues to increase even after. According to the peacebuilding NGO Search for…
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Angered by Unsafe City, Gurgaon Women Call for a ‘Girlcott’
Read more: Angered by Unsafe City, Gurgaon Women Call for a ‘Girlcott’India Ink [Blog] The New York Times Global Edition April 4, 2012 By Neha Thirani The women of Gurgaon, angered by the recent incidents of violent crimes against women in the outsourcing boom town, are calling for a “Girlcott.” From…
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On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About Sex
Read more: On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About SexBy DOUGLAS QUENQUA CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For a table set up by a campus student group, this one held some unusual items: a gynecologist’s speculum, diaphragms, condoms (his and hers) and several packets of lubricant. Nearby, two students batted an…
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Theater for Incarcerated Women
Read more: Theater for Incarcerated WomenCreative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 1989 actress/writer Rhodessa Jones was conducting classes at the San Francisco County Jail. Working with female inmates, she developed material for a performance piece called Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women based on their lives…
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Barbie Liberation Organization
Read more: Barbie Liberation OrganizationNew York Times, DAVID FIRESTONE, Published: December 31, 1993 Your son tears the wrapping paper off his fierce new “Talking Duke” G. I. Joe doll and eagerly presses the talk button. Out comes a painfully chirpy voice that sounds astonishingly…
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Russian Feminist Punk Rock
Read more: Russian Feminist Punk RockAnti-government protests in Russia are taking many different forms, from mass rallies and marches to defiant street art and music. Just recently, members of a feminist punk group were arrested in Moscow’s Red Square after they performed a song ridiculing…