Projects tagged
Sex & Gender
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Afghan Activist Urges Taliban Engagement
Read more: Afghan Activist Urges Taliban EngagementISLAMABAD — A prominent female rights activist in Afghanistan lambasted the global community Saturday for failing to come up with a plan or agreement on how to help her crisis-ridden country since the Taliban took control of it 18 months…
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Activist Art on Fingertips
Read more: Activist Art on FingertipsThis has been a racially-charged year. How one challenges the status quo is an individual choice and many opt for artistic expression. Artistic expression can personified most visually on the body and while black pride tees are big, nail art…
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GLAAD and Ogilvy Launch “Protect This Kid” Campaign in Support of LGBTQ Youth
Read more: GLAAD and Ogilvy Launch “Protect This Kid” Campaign in Support of LGBTQ YouthOn Thursday, April 11th, GLAAD and Ogilvy, a global advertising, marketing and public relations agency, launched a bold worldwide digital campaign, “Protect This Kid,” in support of LGBTQ youth. 2024 has not been an easy year for LGBTQ people, youth…
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Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder
Read more: Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder“So dramatic, so strong, so visual,” artist Stéphan Gladieu said of his first encounter with the revival of an ancestral folk art movement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa is the capital of Congo but also one of the…
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Pussy Riot Bring Their Music and Activism To Montreal
Read more: Pussy Riot Bring Their Music and Activism To MontrealPussy Riot are spreading their protests and activism beyond Russia. Away from Vladimir Putin’s censorship, they’re bringing their voices to Canada – a place where their message of resistance is resonating. On Nov. 1, as a chilling cold filled the…
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Fund 4 Good
Read more: Olivia Rodrigo’s Fund 4 GoodIn conjunction with the GUTS world tour, Olivia has launched Olivia Rodrido’s Fund 4 Good, a global initiative committed to building an equitable and just future for all women, girls and people seeking reproductive health freedom. A portion of the…
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NYU Activist Group on the Streets
Read more: NYU Activist Group on the StreetsOn a sidewalk in the Village in downtown Manhattan, an African-American woman leans on her elbows and knees, wearing only black underpants. Scrawled in black marker all over her body are the words “Ain’t I a Woman?” Across the street,…
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Becoming a Statue of Japanese Comfort Woman
Read more: Becoming a Statue of Japanese Comfort Woman‘Since Plotinus’, writes Joseph Tanke (2019, p. 486), ‘Western art has been consecrated to beauty, and beautiful art has been understood as the achievement of good form’. But alongside this interest in beauty and form, art has been committed to…
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There Will Be Blood
Read more: There Will Be Blood“I got my period in the store!” “I got my period on the car seat!” “My mom talked about my period in front of a cute guy!” These headlines from Seventeen Magazine’s “Embarrassing Moments” feature reveal the humiliation many women…
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Valie Export, TAPP und TASTKINO (TAP and TOUCH CINEMA) 1968/1989
Read more: Valie Export, TAPP und TASTKINO (TAP and TOUCH CINEMA) 1968/1989At age twenty-eight, Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to VALIE EXPORT, in all uppercase letters, to announce her presence in the Viennese art scene. Eager to counter the male–dominated group of artists known as the Vienna Actionists—including Günter Brus, Otto…