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Lebanon rape law: Wedding dresses hang in Beirut sea front protest

Date:
Apr 22 2017

Activists campaigning to change Lebanon’s law on rape have staged a macabre protest on Beirut’s famous sea front. What appeared to be more than 30 white wedding dresses were hung from nooses, strung up between the palm trees. Lebanese law…

A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US

Practitioner:
Artist Rachel Breen, Poet Alison Morse

Date:
Apr 22 2017

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Exactly 1,281 white garments hang from the ceiling of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery. The collared shirts, knit sweaters, tights, and other items of clothing glow with an eerie luminosity. The 1,281 garments represent the number…

Bikini-clad Peta ‘bunny’ braves minus 10 degrees cold to protest fur trade in South Korea

Practitioner:
Ashley Fruno, reporters

Date:
Apr 22 2017

An animal rights activist sporting only a white bikini, bunny ears and tail has been spotted protesting against fur in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which is hosting the Winter Olympics 2018. Ashley Fruno discussed the People for the Ethical Treatment of…

Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest

Practitioner:
Barnard

Date:
Apr 22 2017

“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest,…

Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI

Practitioner:
Iranti

Date:
Apr 22 2017

ONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…

Activists lay thousands of shoes outside Capitol for children killed by gun violence

Practitioner:
avaaz

Date:
Apr 22 2017

WASHINGTON — Thousands of shoes were laid outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to represent children who have been killed by gun violence. Avaaz, an international advocacy group, planned the demonstration to honor victims killed since the massacre…

Fashion As Political Activism

Practitioner:
NYFW

Date:
Apr 22 2017

After eight days of fall/winter New York Fashion Week, the most prominent trend—pervading both the runways and streets—has been social and political activism. To outsiders, New York Fashion Week may seem trivial in a time of more pressing news, but…

General Idea and the AIDS crises

Practitioner:
General Idea Collective

Date:
Apr 22 2017

The Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and ’80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus. A retrospective presented…

Marry the Blue Sky – Chinese Performance Artist on Air Pollution

Practitioner:
Kong Ning

Date:
Apr 22 2017

In December 2015, she stepped out in a wedding dress adorned with hundreds of air pollution masks and walked the streets appealing to Beijingers to take public transport rather than contribute to the choking smog by driving. The year before,…

Chinese ‘naked’ wedding celebrations focus on love – not money

Practitioner:
Ten couple from Zhejiang

Date:
Apr 22 2017

Ten couples covered in body paint wearing only their underwear have celebrated their “naked weddings” at Hangzhou Paradise amusement park in Zhejiang province. The couples, some of whom have been married for many years, said they were rejecting modern Chinese…