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violence against women
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Violence Against Women Art Map
Read more: Violence Against Women Art MapThe Violence Against Women (VAW) Art Map was conceptualized in the fall of 2018, in the wake of the #MeToo movement by Dr. Lauren Stetz, as part of her doctoral research in Art Education with a minor in Women’s, Gender,…
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Penis seats for men
Read more: Penis seats for menIn a conceptually odd but undeniably memorable PSA campaign, the Mexico City Metro has installed a “penis seat” in one of its subway cars, featuring a molded likeness of a man’s torso and penis, to get male riders thinking about…
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Design4Peace
Read more: Design4PeaceDesign4Peace is a collection of political posters created by Leslie Dwyer. Images speak to issues of war and peace, prisons, solidarity and movement, immigration, economy and class, violence against women, ecology, agriculture, racism, and gender. Leslie works with movement and…
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Performance Art Feminism in Beijing
Read more: Performance Art Feminism in BeijingXiao has organized and participated in a series of activities that combine performance art with a strong social message. Despite a well-known Chinese maxim expounding that women “hold up half the sky,” feminism has largely been an underground movement in…
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Clothesline Project
Read more: Clothesline Project“Stop hitting me,” “Please help,” and “Abuse is wrong” were just a few phrases painted and scribbled onto T-shirts by victims of sexual and domestic abuse to express how it felt to go through that pain. The shirts are part…
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Shake Girl, The Graphic Novel
Read more: Shake Girl, The Graphic NovelShake Girl is a massive collaborative effort between fifteen students and two instructors over the course of one quarter (Winter 2008). These students comprise the first edition of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project — a group dedicated to acheiving this…
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Talib Kweli on Rick Ross’s date rape lyrics
Read more: Talib Kweli on Rick Ross’s date rape lyricsFollowing the controversy around Rick Ross’s date rape lyrics in his rap on Rocko’s song U.O.E.N.O, the rapper lost his contract with Reebok and was the target of the media, anti-rape activists Ultraviolet, hip hop activists, and even his fans.…
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SPEAK
Read more: SPEAKLast night I attended an Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault Speak Out, where people across campus from the LGBT community and coalitions of color came together in one sacred space to share their stories with strangers. For many, including…
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Breaking the Spell
Read more: Breaking the SpellIn 2012, VOW Media worked with young girls – who have been victimized by, or are at the risk of falling victim to “loverboys”, as well as girls who have gone through severe traumatic experiences, such as repeated emotional, physical…
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Stop Telling Women to Smile
Read more: Stop Telling Women to SmileStop Telling Women to Smile is a street art project by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh that addresses gender based street harassment. Street harassment is a serious issue that affects women world wide. This project attempts to take women’s voices, and faces, and…