Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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Rap Against Rape
Read more: Rap Against RapeUnder the moniker BomBaebs, Pankhuri Awasthi and Uppekha Jain rap about rape, cultural stereotypes, religious biases, and hypocrisy surrounding sexism and gender biases in India. They open the video with a disclaimer, warning that “This video doesn’t have any explicit…
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Op-Doc A Conversation With Latinos on Race
Read more: Op-Doc A Conversation With Latinos on RaceIn this short documentary, Latinos grapple with defining their ethnic and racial identities http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/opinion/a-conversation-with-latinos-on… Last year we set out to make a series of short documentaries that we hoped would foster a discussion about race relations in the United States.…
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Rebel Music: Native America
Read more: Rebel Music: Native AmericaFrank Waln, a 25 year old Native American hip hop artist, tours the country and Canada performing and teaching motivational workshops to students across the country. He took to rap at a young age when he found a cd (Eminem’s…
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Always ‘Like a Girl’ Says the Female Emojis Are Terrible
Read more: Always ‘Like a Girl’ Says the Female Emojis Are TerribleMost brands have expressed eternal love for emojis in recent years, as they try to talk the talk of young people today. Not so fast, says Always’ “Like a Girl” campaign, which points out in a new ad that the…
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Krewe of Dead Pelicans
Read more: Krewe of Dead PelicansIn May 2010, as oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster continued to spread in the Gulf of Mexico, growing outrage from residents in New Orleans at the response by government agents and corporate executives, opened up new horizons of political…
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12 year old bride in Times Square
Read more: 12 year old bride in Times SquareIn order to raise awareness about the global issue of arranged child marriages, 21-year-old YouTube star Coby Persin decided to push the envelope by asking a 12-year-old ‘bride’ to pose with a 65-year-old ‘groom’ in the middle of Times Square.…
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Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscars
Read more: Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscarshttp://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-h… External sources: http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-happens-t…
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Arming Sisters
Read more: Arming SistersWhen Patricia Stonefish returned home to the United States from Egypt in 2014, she brought with her a new outlook for conceptualizing women’s self defense. Having seen firsthand the benefits and empowerment of Taekwando/ Hapkido/ Gumdo classes for Egyptian women…
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Social Experiment: 65-Year-Old Man Tries To Marry A 12-Year-Old Girl In NYC
Read more: Social Experiment: 65-Year-Old Man Tries To Marry A 12-Year-Old Girl In NYCThe statistics in regards to older men marrying young girls is mind boggling and disgusting. Every day 33,000 girls are married to older men, denied their rights to education and opportunity and robbed of their childhood. Many countries around the…
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Xincun
Read more: XincunSong Tao and Ji Weiyu, established their collaborative named Birdhead in 2004. Both natives of Shanghai, their work is deeply rooted in their hometown and its evolution amid China’s growth into a global power. The duo takes diaristic snapshots, highlighting…