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PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION

Practitioner:
JR

Date:
Jan 1 2004

After a first illegal exhibition on the walls of the Cité des Bosquets, JR settles in the heart of this neighborhood and the neighboring projects of La Forestière, in Clichy-sous-Bois, where the 2005 riots started in the French suburbs. The…

The Black Joy Project

Practitioner:
Kleaver Cruz

Date:
Jan 1 2004

Black Lives Matter has pushed the national conversation on race—but the trauma and pain behind the fight against systemic racism can weigh heavily on black organizers and the communities they serve. This was the case for Kleaver Cruz, a 27-year-old…

ASCO Collective

Practitioner:
ASCO Collective

Date:
Jan 1 2004

Beginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it…

Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistance

Practitioner:
Good Trouble, Rod Stanley

Date:
Jan 1 2004

If, like me, you spent the days after Trump’s election in a depressed stupor wondering what – if anything – would change, look no further than Good Trouble. Set up by former Dazed editor Rod Stanley, it’s a new collective…

Chinese High School Students Making Film about Trans Gender

Practitioner:
Hu Ranan

Date:
Jan 1 2004

A high school student from The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China Made a Movie about “Sexual Minorities”, a Topic Avoided By Almost Every Parent. How Should We Start Talking About This?” was widely circulated among people on…

Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI

Practitioner:
Iranti

Date:
Jan 1 2004

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…

5 Ways PETA Asia Became an Animal Rights Groundbreaker in China

Practitioner:
PETA Asia

Date:
Jan 1 2004

The world is shocked by China’s dog meat festival and by videos showing that animals are eaten alive in restaurants in Guangdong. But in that country of 1.3 billon people, a massive shift in ideology is happening. Our friends at…

Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships

Practitioner:
various groups

Date:
Jan 1 2004

*image* Gabriela Golder, “Letters” (photo by Federico Lo Bianco, courtesy Parque de la Memoria) BUENOS AIRES — Dictatorships and armed conflicts have been all too familiar in South America’s recent histories. To take stock of these experiences, in 2016 the…

“We Have Our Ways,” a short film directed by Portland filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone shows ‘activism is a form of love

Practitioner:
Filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone

Date:
Jan 1 2004

Dawn Jones Redstone’s short film about reproductive justice features women of color leading the resistance. The year is 2023. Health care of any kind is highly inaccessible and in some cases outlawed. Public utilities such as water are privatized and…

Vision Workshops

Practitioner:
Vision Workshops

Date:
Jan 1 2004

VisionWorkshops is the creative force behind a series of highly effective photography workshops for youth from underserved communities worldwide. Our mission is to provide innovative, dynamic, educational and life changing experiences for youth, using the tools of photojournalism. Their goals…