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women’s rights
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New Work – New Women
Read more: New Work – New WomenAfter the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017, misogynistic sentiments were amplified due to Trump’s policy positions and rhetoric. One position Trump made clear was against Planned Parenthood, which largely threatened women’s reproductive rights and access to healthcare. This project…
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“Cuntrol”
Read more: “Cuntrol”It’s almost no surprise that the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade happened this past week. Since its enaction in 1973, there have been numerous occasions where politicians and people alike have tried hacking away at its success in…
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“Your body is a battleground”
Read more: “Your body is a battleground”A woman’s head is bisected by a line that splits her face into positive and negative halves. Over the image, a commanding text, stated in the second person, reads: “Your body is a battleground.” Artist Barbara Kruger’s famous collage —…
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Women of York: “Shared Dining”
Read more: Women of York: “Shared Dining”In 2013, a group of ten women incarcerated at York Correctional Institution in Connecticut, calling themselves “Women of York,” created this work of art inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. The installation includes six entry banners and ten place…
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Social Experiment: 65-Year-Old Man Tries To Marry A 12-Year-Old Girl In NYC
Read more: Social Experiment: 65-Year-Old Man Tries To Marry A 12-Year-Old Girl In NYCThe statistics in regards to older men marrying young girls is mind boggling and disgusting. Every day 33,000 girls are married to older men, denied their rights to education and opportunity and robbed of their childhood. Many countries around the…
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Abortion Drone; first flight to Poland
Read more: Abortion Drone; first flight to PolandOn Saturday June 27 th the Abortion drone flies for the first time packages of abortion pills from Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany to Słubice in Poland. The campaign is a collaboration between Women on Waves; Cocia Basia, a…
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Estados de excepción
Read more: Estados de excepciónEstados de excepción (States of Exception) is series of participatory cultural interventions created for women to freely and joyfully exercise our rights in public and secure environments, currently being produced in Mexico and abroad. Conceived in response to the growing…
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The Trials of Spring
Read more: The Trials of SpringThe Trials of Spring is a major documentary event that chronicles the stories of nine women who played central roles in the Arab Spring uprisings and their aftermaths in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. It includes a feature-length…
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Vaginal Knitting
Read more: Vaginal Knitting“Vaginal Knitting” Is the New Thing in Activist Performance Art by Adam Weinstein Casey Jenkins identifies herself as a former “craftivist”—a term she defines as “using traditional craft techniques for a political or social activism purpose.” She and her colleagues…
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Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women’s rights
Read more: Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women’s rightsHow did men in miniskirts become a protest meme on social media? Turkish men aren’t known for wearing skirts. But hundreds turned out in large numbers in Istanbul to protest about violence against women in Turkey on 21 February. They…