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Chinese Feminist Act Against Sexual Harassment on Subway

Practitioner:
Zheng Xi

Date:
Dec 1 2017

Zheng Xi 郑熹, a Ph.D. candidate with a focus on gender studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. Zheng has launched a campaign asking city governments around China to display anti-sexual-harassment logos, complete with a groper’s “salty-pig hand” visual (etymological context…

A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art

Practitioner:
Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB

Date:
Dec 1 2017

Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law. “Because political art speaks directly to issues that people care deeply about (in that instance, having an African-American First Family),…

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

Practitioner:
Artist Rachel Breen, Poet Alison Morse

Date:
Dec 1 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…

Activists protest on MRT to show solidarity for ISA detainees

Practitioner:
Jolovan Wham and other activists

Date:
Dec 1 2017

A group of activists took to the trains to protest the horrendous treatment that the Singapore government meted out upon 22 individuals who were detained 30 years ago under an operation that was entitled,”Operation Spectrum” with the use of the…

Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct History

Practitioner:
Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins

Date:
Dec 1 2017

Join other families in reimagining sports team mascots and logos that misrepresent Native American communities. Design a campaign for alternative names with the help of artists Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins, taking inspiration from the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the…

East Side Gallery

Practitioner:
Graffiti artists

Date:
Dec 1 2017

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, the cement segments that remain have stood as something more symbolic than just a wall. With installations in every continent, except for Antarctica, the East Side Gallery is the…

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

Practitioner:
Good Trouble, Rod Stanley

Date:
Dec 1 2017

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…

Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest

Practitioner:
Barnard

Date:
Dec 1 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:
Dec 1 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…

Tsinghua students use Women’s Day to joke about ending presidential term limits

Practitioner:
students from Tsinghua University

Date:
Dec 1 2017

Students at China’s prestigious Tsinghua University are celebrating International Women’s Day with banners making light of a proposed constitutional amendment to scrap term limits for the country’s president. One banner joked that a boyfriend’s term should also have no limits,…