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Censorship
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Tatlin’s Whisper #6
Read more: Tatlin’s Whisper #6This is the sixth piece of the series Tatlin’s Whisper which examines the relationship between apathy and anaesthetization of the images in the mass media. This series intends to activate images, well-known because of having been repeatedly seen in the…
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Daughter of a Temple
Read more: Daughter of a Temple“I sing because I genuinely think that if I don’t, I will die…The only thing that gives me relief is this.” – ganavya doraiswamy I’ve been fortunate to witness New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised, Queer musician ganavya’s work a handful of…
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Study of Perspective (& Stools)
Read more: Study of Perspective (& Stools)The son of an exiled political dissident, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s work is inherently political. Since 1995 Ai Weiwei has been traveling the world, photographing himself flipping off iconic monuments of power in his Study of Perspective series.…
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25 Years Ago, Rage Against the Machine Whipped Their Dicks Out in Protest
Read more: 25 Years Ago, Rage Against the Machine Whipped Their Dicks Out in ProtestWhen Rage Against the Machine arrived in Philadelphia to play their 15-minute set as part of Lollapalooza ’93, the Los Angeles band knew they had a problem. Zack de la Rocha, the band’s incendiary frontman who was as outspoken on…
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Resistance to the stereotypes of poetry
Read more: Resistance to the stereotypes of poetryThe aim of the action is to create a fractal network of poets, where their poems will be recited, recorded, set to music, will be activistically acted as performance material in order to resist the censorship of art. The field…
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“Rice Bunny” (米兔) #MeToo Code on Chinese Social Media
Read more: “Rice Bunny” (米兔) #MeToo Code on Chinese Social MediaWomen in China are covertly resisting government crackdowns on discussions over their Me Too movement with a clever workaround. The phrase “rice bunny” (米兔), pronounced as “mi tu,” has popped up on social media networks after censors removed posts that…
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Las Vulpes: Me gusta ser una zorra (I like being a whore)
Read more: Las Vulpes: Me gusta ser una zorra (I like being a whore)Las Vulpes was the first spanish punk rock band formed only by women. It was founded in Baracaldo (Vizcaya, Basque Country) in the summer of 1982, as a result of the guitarist´s desire on creating an all women punk band.…
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Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, Spain 10/30/1910 – Alicante, Spain 03/28/1942), life and death of a poet and activist
Read more: Miguel Hernández (Orihuela, Spain 10/30/1910 – Alicante, Spain 03/28/1942), life and death of a poet and activistMiguel Hernández was a spanish shepherd, poet and playwright that dedicated most of his works to dignify the poor peasants of the rural areas of Spain. He was born in Orihuela in 1910, and went to school until the age…
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eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in Tunisia
Read more: eL Seed in the Battle Against Censorship in TunisiaLast week, Tunisia’s tallest minaret went under the brush of the country’s hottest muralist. On the Jara Mosque in his hometown of Gabes, 31-year-old eL Seed painted a verse from the Quran preaching tolerance, a message meant for Salafist Islamists…
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Turkey’s Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After ‘Secret Obscenities’
Read more: Turkey’s Artists Protest Islamist Censorship After ‘Secret Obscenities’ANKARA, Turkey — In a recent play in Turkey, two actors wore trench coats in their role as assassins posing as perverts planning to flash girls near a school.The scene and its themes of nudity and sexual depravity are at…