Projects tagged
Writing & Manifestos
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The Chronicles of Resilience
Read more: The Chronicles of ResilienceFor FX Harsono, art is activism. Over the past four decades, performance, sculpture, and painting have become his means of nonviolent protest against government autocracy and ethnic strife in Indonesia. In his current exhibition The Chronicles of Resilience, curated by…
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#KuToo Movement: protest against mandatory high heels at work in Japan
Read more: #KuToo Movement: protest against mandatory high heels at work in JapanYumi Ishikawa, a Japanese actress, freelance writer, and part-time funeral parlor worker, started the #KuToo Movement because she feels it’s unfair she has to wear heels at work. She also feels that being required to wear heels is rooted in…
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Between the World and Me
Read more: Between the World and MeBetween the World and Me by Richard Wright And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms And the sooty details of the…
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Fanism – Tallahassee Native John Gertomo’s Flock
Read more: Fanism – Tallahassee Native John Gertomo’s FlockOn a now defunct MMO, users rallied together under a fake religion to protest religious groups proselytizing on the messageboards. The fake religion was said to be an offshoot of Christianity, the founder John Gertomo, a former Baptist in Tallahassee…
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Stella Nyanzi’s Birthday Poem “Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.”
Read more: Stella Nyanzi’s Birthday Poem “Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.”Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a Ugandan medical anthropologist, activist, and writer, was convicted after writing and posting a poem online, in which she criticized Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his mother. In November 2018, Ugandan authorities charged Dr. Nyanzi with “cyber…
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The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action
Read more: The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and ActionThe Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action (https://theamplificationproject.com) is a community-led participatory public digital archive to which any artist and activist can document, preserve and share their work inspired, influenced, or affected by forced migration.…
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Feminists Paper Paris With Stark Posters Decrying Domestic Abuse
Read more: Feminists Paper Paris With Stark Posters Decrying Domestic AbuseA widespread but illegal campaign by a group calling itself “the Gluers” uses posters to denounce violence against women. It has become an effective — and ubiquitous — tool to raise awareness. On a recent mild night, a squad of…
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Artist Statement
Read more: Artist StatementMine is not Arts for the sake of Arts. It is a revolutionary INSGINA carved into the artistic plaque of my DNA to speak FREEDOM of expression and then freedom after EXPRESSION. The footprints of my revolutionary walk are dipped…
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WE CHANT RESISTANCE!
Read more: WE CHANT RESISTANCE!This special EDition is a revolutionary chant against the menacing cantankerous demonic , satanic COVID 19. And again doubles as a bold and poetic supplication to the great Almighty God to release us off this pandemic bondage. This Edition is…
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Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.
Read more: Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.The signature angst of our time was profoundly expressed in the poems submitted for WOMAWORDS Literary Press June 2020 edition, Imaging Life After COVID-19, offering women poets an opportunity to write about their experience of the pandemic and their vision…