Projects tagged
Performance
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The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hope
Read more: The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hopeFor artist Vasilios Papapitsios, going public with his HIV status has been gradual. He was diagnosed at age 19, but about three years passed before he wrote an anonymous piece about his experience for a North Carolina zine. He presented…
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Big Bossa
Read more: Big BossaWajiha Jendoubi is an actress and one of Tunisia’s best-known comedians. To be a woman comedian in this North African nation can be a challenge, but the country’s gender gap is narrowing for the first time in almost a decade…
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In Mexico, Women Go on Strike Nationwide to Protest Violence
Read more: In Mexico, Women Go on Strike Nationwide to Protest ViolenceMEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of women vanished from streets, offices and classrooms across Mexico on Monday, part of a nationwide strike to protest the violence they suffer and to demand government action against it. The women’s absence from…
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Bullying Jr.
Read more: Bullying Jr.Scrawny. Short. Ugly. Fat. Weird. 30% of school kids worldwide are bullied each year and bullying is the #1 act of violence against young people in America today. The BURGER KING® brand is known for putting the crown on everyone’s…
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CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN’S PRISON
Read more: CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN’S PRISONIn its thirteenth year, the annual Miss Talavera Bruce beauty pageant is held in unlikely surroundings: a women’s prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Instituto Penal Talavera is the only maximum-security women’s prison in the city with inmates serving…
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Mr Triton France Competition
Read more: Mr Triton France CompetitionAt the end of June of this year, as France sweated through record high temperatures, a group of men took a moment to escape the heatwave and compete in the inaugural Mr Triton France competition. Organised by Merman Ludo, the…
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LGBT activists ask strangers for hugs in China protest at Weibo censorship
Read more: LGBT activists ask strangers for hugs in China protest at Weibo censorshipA social experiment testing the public’s reaction to gay people in China has gone viral. The blindfolded activists stood in public wearing T-shirts that said “I’m gay would you hug me?” and video of the protest then spread rapidly on…
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RED CARD TO VIOLENCE Juventus and Serie A stars have red marks on face in campaign to stop domestic violence against women
Read more: RED CARD TO VIOLENCE Juventus and Serie A stars have red marks on face in campaign to stop domestic violence against womenSERIE A players are once again doing their bit to raise awareness for a campaign against violence to women. They have teamed up with Italian organisation WeWorld Onlus, and will promote the cause at all ten Serie A matches this…
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RAPtivism
Read more: RAPtivismAISHA FUKUSHIMA is a Singer, Speaker, Educator, and ‘RAPtivist’ (rap activist). Fukushima founded RAPtivism (Rap Activism), a hip hop project spanning 20 countries and four continents, amplifying universal efforts for freedom and justice. She is a multilingual, multiracial African American…
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Invisible Women – A World Designed for Men
Read more: Invisible Women – A World Designed for MenThe problem with feminism is that it’s just too familiar. The attention of a jaded public and neophiliac media may have been aroused by #MeToo, with its connotations of youth, sex and celebrity, but for the most part it has…