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Riot grrrl MANIFESTO

Date:
Apr 27 1991

Riot grrrl is a feminist punk rock movement started in the early 90’s, particularly in Washington DC, Olympia, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Bands that follow the movement include Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Jack Off Jill, Bratmobile, Adickdid, The Butchies, Heavens to…

Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change

Practitioner:
Hicbd

Date:
Apr 27 1991

Have you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it…

Real Women

Practitioner:
Dove

Date:
Apr 27 1991

The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is a worldwide marketing/public relations campaign launched in 2004 that includes advertisements, video, workshops, sleepover events and the publication of a book and the production of a play. The principle behind the campaign is…

French Feminist Collective Bearded Stand-ins

Practitioner:
Le Barbe

Date:
Apr 27 1991

Founded in 2008, the French Feminist Collective, La Barbe, targets inequities of female representation in media and cultural/governmental institutions. La Barbe, meaning “beard” in French, is also an old colloquial expression for “enough is enough!”. Known as barbues, the female…

The Exquisite Uterus

Practitioner:
Alison Gates, Helen Klebesadel

Date:
Apr 27 1991

This project served as an educational tool to demystify the female body and bring awareness to the issues of reproductive rights and the ignorance that sometimes plagues common misconceptions about the reproductive system. I think this campaign is very successful…

New Craft Artists in Action

Practitioner:
Institute for Infinitely Small Things, New Craft Artists in Action, Office of Culture and Design (Manila), Team Captain Maria Molteni

Date:
Apr 27 1991

Maria was psyched to travel to the Philippines where her hand-made basketball nets were well received. Invited with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things (Boston/Mass based) by Clara Balaguer and the Office of Culture and Design (Manila) she worked in…

Slashing the Rokeby Venus

Practitioner:
Mary Raleigh Richardson, WSPU

Date:
Apr 27 1991

On March 10, 1914, Mary Richardson slashed Velasquez’s “Rokeby Venus” with a small axe during public hours at the National Gallery in London. A militant suffragette protesting the force-feeding of imprisoned suffragettes in prison (and the Cat and Mouse Act…

Young Women For Change: Fashion as Activism

Practitioner:
Young Women For Change

Date:
Apr 27 1991

Founded in April 2011, Young Women for Change (YWC) is an independent non-profit organization committed to empowering Afghan women and improving their lives through social, economical , political empowerment, participation, awareness and advocacy. YWC was co-founded by Noorjahan Akbar and…

MFA Billboard

Practitioner:
Guerilla Girls

Date:
Apr 27 1991

The Guerrilla Girls tactic was well thought-out and was effective in creating a spectacle to draw attention to the issue at hand, which is the lack of female representation in the museum. Where I think the campaign has some drawbacks…

Guerilla Girls

Practitioner:
Guerilla Girls

Date:
Apr 27 1991

The Guerilla Girls are masked art activists who seek to bring attention to women in the art world and expose the unfair dominance of white males in the field. Their research into the racial and gender inequality in the art…