Projects tagged
Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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Social Media powered car
Read more: Social Media powered carIt took 17 high schoolers, eight mentors from Kansas City and a 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to create the first ever social media powered car. The concept was to bring MINDDRIVE to life with tweets, posts, shares and likes which…
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¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition
Read more: ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibitionSpread over three institutions — the Bronx Museum of the Arts; El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem; and Loisaida Inc., a cultural center in the East Village — this show departs from straight political history by presenting the Young…
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NYC Art Exhibit Responded to “2016 Presidential Election Charade”
Read more: NYC Art Exhibit Responded to “2016 Presidential Election Charade”#makeamericagreatagain is a group exhibition of diverse media that ran during February and coincided with the initial Democratic and Republican primaries. The exhibition’s title is culled verbatim from Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. Appropriation does not stop there, however, for #makeamericagreatagain…
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The Occult Activism of 1960s Group WITCH is Still Relevant
Read more: The Occult Activism of 1960s Group WITCH is Still RelevantWhen people think of feminist protests of the 1960s, they most often think of bra burning at the Miss America pageant. This is super lame because bras weren’t even burned at that protest, just discarded into a trash can. It’s…
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Slammed in the Butt by My Hugo Award Nomination
Read more: Slammed in the Butt by My Hugo Award NominationChuck Tingle is the Internet’s most beloved author of bizarre niche erotica, perhaps best known for his masterwork Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt. The Hugo Awards are a formerly prestigious sci-fi honor, hijacked in recent years by…
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Raised-Fist Photo by Black Women at West Point Spurs Inquiry
Read more: Raised-Fist Photo by Black Women at West Point Spurs InquiryA group of young black women poised to graduate from the United States Military Academy gathered on the steps of West Point’s oldest barracks last week in traditional gray dress uniforms, complete with sabers, for a group photo. Known as…
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MRAsterpiece Theater
Read more: MRAsterpiece TheaterThere’s some great news for supporters of The Sarkeesian Effect, the seemingly random collection of badly filmed interviews with assorted people who dislike Anita Sarkeesian that is allegedly being edited into a film of some kind! In a new video,…
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Read more: Bread and Puppet TheaterThe Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems…
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UCT Students Strip Down to Highlight Concerns Over Rape Culture
Read more: UCT Students Strip Down to Highlight Concerns Over Rape CultureStudents have accused university management of having a lack of concern about the issue. CAPE TOWN – University of Cape Town (UCT) students have stripped to their underwear to highlight their concerns over rape culture on campus. Dozens of students…
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Musicians trade in boycotts for activism to fight North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’
Read more: Musicians trade in boycotts for activism to fight North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’Animal Collective, Mumford and Sons and Duran Duran among performers who have turned concerts in state into fundraisers as part of NC Needs You movement Even as North Carolina’s governor, Pat McCrory, refused to comply with federal officials over his…
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Lesbians 101
Read more: Lesbians 101Lesbians 101 is a full-color, 16 page magazine-sized comic book packed with light-hearted education based on the most common set of questions lesbians frequently get. A few lesson examples include: “Why Do All Lesbians Look The Same,” “Why Do Lesbians…
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White Clergy Spark Debate By Telling Cops #UseMeInstead For Target Practice
Read more: White Clergy Spark Debate By Telling Cops #UseMeInstead For Target PracticeA group of clergy members wanted to change the conversation when they heard that a Florida police department was using mug shots of young black men as targets for shooting practice. “#UseMeInstead,” the religious leaders said, tweeting photos of themselves…