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Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on Lesbos
Read more: Migrant crisis: Charities make massive peace sign out of life jackets on LesbosCharities working on the Greek island of Lesbos have made a massive peace sign out of discarded life jackets to honour refugees who’ve died trying to cross the Mediterranean. More than 100 volunteers used 3,000 vests to form the symbol…
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“The shoes are marching for us”
Read more: “The shoes are marching for us”A 7-year-old’s sneakers. An accountant’s slippers. Gold heels with spikes and a piece of paper carrying a message: “Invest in renewable (energy) … now.” Thousands of shoes stood in silent protest on Sunday in Paris. Their owners, climate change activists…
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Burkaphilia
Read more: BurkaphiliaWhen Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d…
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Fanged Wilds and Women
Read more: Fanged Wilds and WomengrrrRoar! Ecology is sexier when you focus on women and fanged beasts. Fashions in leopard print help us make that connection globally and online. Polluters at least pause at the reminder that nature isn’t dead yet and in fact stirs…
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Putting a Trans Mark on the City of Berlin
Read more: Putting a Trans Mark on the City of BerlinAs part of an international workshop (10-11 October 2015) with the Center for Artistic Activism, 17 trans activists and artists from 13 European countries developed a creative campaign to mark some of the spaces in Berlin which have symbolic significance…
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You Don’t Need Stuff To Love Yourself!
Read more: You Don’t Need Stuff To Love Yourself!New York performance artist Matthew Silver is at it again. In his most recent stunt he reminded people that self love can’t be achieved through commodities. Chanting “You don’t need stuff to love yourself” in his underwear at Columbus Circle…
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Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the Streets
Read more: Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the StreetsWhat is looping? Somewhere in between art, activism, and wackiness is this liberating experience. Matthew Silver and Fritz Donnelley, two New York City based performance artists got lonely acting silly in their underwear in public. Knowing that there were enough…
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With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold Statement
Read more: With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold StatementIn her peppy and helpful online video tutorial, Reshma Bano Quereshi promises to teach her viewers “how to get perfect red lips.” But unlike the more than 200,000 other online videos dedicated to the application of lipstick, this one goes…
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AIDS Awareness Ribbon
Read more: AIDS Awareness RibbonFrom 99 Percent Invisible: By the late 1980s, AIDS had been in the United States for almost a decade. AIDS became the number one killer of young men in New York City, then of young men in the country, then…
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Unforgotten Campaign
Read more: Unforgotten CampaignBlair Holt was shot and killed while he shielded another classmate from the bullets a gunman sprayed on a CTA bus in Chicago in 2007. His father is a police officer and his mother is a fire department chief, and…