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Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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Smuggling Books Across The Border
Read more: Smuggling Books Across The BorderFor the People Artists Collective is a collaborative network of radical artists of color in Chicago. #ForThePeopleFriday: Each Friday, we will be sharing artwork by one of our members. Today, we are featuring Leila Abdelrazaq, a Chicago-based Palestinian artist, whose…
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Picture an Arab Man
Read more: Picture an Arab Man“Nude” and “vulnerable” aren’t words commonly used to describe Arab males. But that’s how Tamara Abdul Hadi pictures them—literally—in the project Picture an Arab Man. With the goal of breaking the stereotype of Arab men as violent and dangerous, Abdul…
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Experiential Museum housing horrors of the past
Read more: Experiential Museum housing horrors of the pastIn time for the 30th Anniversary of the famed EDSA People People Revolution, a two-day pop-up museum in Camp Aguinaldo serves as a vivid reminder of a significant period in Philippine History. The interactive museum, which is composed of nine…
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Perception and the Garbage People
Read more: Perception and the Garbage PeopleThe streets of the Cairo suburb Manshiyat Naser, nicknamed “Garbage City,” are lined with trash, and the people who live there — Coptic Christians who make their living sorting through it and recycling anything they can — are called zabaleen,…
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Not All Like That
Read more: Not All Like ThatJohn Shore and his wife Catherine had been attending the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego for six years when they were nominated to serve as deacons. But before they could be ordained, they were asked to sign a document…
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Young Boricua & Proud
Read more: Young Boricua & ProudBoricua artist Castorillo discusses the crisis, diaspora, and the enduring significance of the Young Lords Party for Puerto Rican social movements today using illustrations: For the past couple of years, Puerto Ricans have been leaving the island and going (mainly)…
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Activists Illustrated – Women at the Heart of Global Struggles
Read more: Activists Illustrated – Women at the Heart of Global StrugglesLatin American Artist María María Acha-Kutscher takes photographs from social and feminist movements and turns them into stunning pop art illustrations. ” Indignadas (Outraged Women) consists of a visual record of participation of women in public protests around the world,…
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The Resurgence of Women-Only Art Shows
Read more: The Resurgence of Women-Only Art ShowsAt the peak of her career in 1976, Georgia O’Keeffe refused to lend her work to a pivotal exhibition in Los Angeles, “Women Artists: 1550 to 1950.” It was one of a wave of all-female shows — some 150 —…
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MAY DAY MARCH- “TRUMP UNWANTED”
Read more: MAY DAY MARCH- “TRUMP UNWANTED”GAME ON! Its gonna be a good Spring!” Connie Bacon. Activists and the politically aware will march with the message that Donald Trump and his beliefs are “UNWANTED”. External sources: https://www.facebook.com/maydaymarch16/ https://www.facebook.com/connie.bacon/posts/10156668786985048
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Badass Indian Pinups
Read more: Badass Indian Pinups“Badass Indian Pinups” is a series of paintings by Indo-Canadian artist Nimisha Bhanot, that features paintings of Indian women being confident and sexually liberated. Bhanot was in art school in 2012, when the gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey took…
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Vangardist HIV+ Magazine
Read more: Vangardist HIV+ MagazineHIV is still among the top 10 leading causes of death in the world, ranking sixth with around 1.5 million deaths each year. Around 35 million people are currently infected with HIV, and cases are worryingly on the rise—it is…
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Abercrombie and Fat
Read more: Abercrombie and FatJes Baker, 26, created a campaign called Abercrombie and Fat in response to the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch. In 2006, the CEO released a statement that his target consumer is the cool, All American kid who has a lot…