Projects tagged
Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals
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12 year old bride in Times Square
Read more: 12 year old bride in Times SquareIn order to raise awareness about the global issue of arranged child marriages, 21-year-old YouTube star Coby Persin decided to push the envelope by asking a 12-year-old ‘bride’ to pose with a 65-year-old ‘groom’ in the middle of Times Square.…
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Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscars
Read more: Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscarshttps://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-h… External sources: https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-happens-t…
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Imagined Realms
Read more: Imagined RealmsJulie Dillon is a critically acclaimed illustrator, having been nominated and won multiple awards, including two Hugos and a Chesley. Her work often deals with science fiction and fantasy stories, and her work in the field has made her aware…
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Arming Sisters
Read more: Arming SistersWhen Patricia Stonefish returned home to the United States from Egypt in 2014, she brought with her a new outlook for conceptualizing women’s self defense. Having seen firsthand the benefits and empowerment of Taekwando/ Hapkido/ Gumdo classes for Egyptian women…
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Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit Home
Read more: Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit HomeAs art projects go, it’s pretty audacious. Ryan Mendoza, an expatriate American artist living in Berlin, Germany, and Naples, Italy, has torn down an abandoned two-story house in Detroit, shipped the pieces overseas and rebuilt it for display in Europe.…
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Small World Machines
Read more: Small World MachinesA new, three-minute ad by Coca-Cola, “Small World Machines,” starts with a relatively straightforward premise: India and Pakistan do not get along so well. It ends with the promise of peace: “Togetherness, humanity, this is what we all want, more…
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Waterpod Project
Read more: Waterpod ProjectWaterpod™ was a floating, sculptural, eco-habitat designed for the rising tides. It launched in the summer of 2009, navigate down the East River, explore the waters of New York Harbor, and docked at several Manhattan piers on the Hudson River…
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Bogota Performance Piece – No Name
Read more: Bogota Performance Piece – No NameRenowned Cuban artist Tania Bruguera surprised a Bogota audience in September when she lined up three people directly involved in the Colombian conflict for a chat. The real performance however, started when a waitress emerged with a tray of neatly…
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Activists rallied at dozens of Apple Stores worldwide
Read more: Activists rallied at dozens of Apple Stores worldwideIf you are in favor of Apple’s staunch resistance to the government, you may be interested to join a rally on Tuesday, February 23 at 5:30pm local time at an Apple Store near you. Last Tuesday, Fight for the Future,…
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Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activists
Read more: Schoolwork, advocacy place strain on student activistsTwo weeks ago, the University released the final version of its diversity and inclusion action plan, which could not have been compiled without the exhaustive efforts of students throughout last semester. “There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes…
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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…