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Representing Disability in an Ablest World: Essays on Mass Media
Practitioner:
Beth Haller
Date:
Nov 12 2010
As an add-on to my 2010 book, Representing Disability in an Ableist World. Essays on Mass Media, I have created this online resource site. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Representing-Disability-in-an-Ableist-Wor...
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Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram's Ban
Practitioner:
Claudia Chanhoi
Date:
Jan 1 2016
It all began during Claudia's final art project at the London College of Communication, where she delved into the issue of "sexual objectification of women," a topic close to her heart as she navigated her womanhood.
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Bringing Safe Sexy Back
Practitioner:
The UCLA Sex Squad
Date:
Jun 12 2013
Is there a way to make sex ed, big, scary, nasty, icky, sex ed, fun again? In the Spring Quarter of of 2013, UCLA students in the Sex Squad, a performance troupe dedicated to injecting a dose of humor into high school sex education, set out to answer that question through a series of short videos.
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Object Orange
Practitioner:
Detroit. Demolition. Disneyland.
Date:
Jun 15 2013
In the "D", "D" doesn't really stand for "Detroit", but "Demolition." Take a look around and you'll notice a great number of buildings marked on the front with a circled "D" in faint chalk. Off to the side, many of these same buildings will also have a noticeable dot, courtesy of our own native son, Tyree Guyton.
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There Will Be Blood
Practitioner:
Emma Arvida Bystrom
Date:
May 17 2012
"I got my period in the store!" "I got my period on the car seat!" "My mom talked about my period in front of a cute guy!"
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Felipe Romero Beltrán captures young migrants coming-of-age in Seville
Practitioner:
Felipe Romero Beltrán
Date:
Apr 13 2021
Horror stories about treacherous boat journeys from Africa to the Mediterranean far too often make headline news. The men, women and children fleeing their homes to start a new life in Europe become faceless numbers in the media, and are ‘othered’ by conservative politicians for their own agenda.
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ACT UP is at it again
Practitioner:
ACT UP
Date:
Apr 26 2012
Long before the red ribbon became an innocuous symbol of AIDS “awareness” and celebrity philanthropy, there was the pink triangle and there was ACT UP and there were thousands of people taking to the streets for their lives. Once a symbol used to mark suspected queers for death in the Holocaust, ACT UP appropriated the pink triangle for
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The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World Inequality
Practitioner:
Guerrilla Girls
Date:
Mar 22 2016
It’s women’s history month, and your favorite radical feminist avengers want you to go ape. The Guerrilla Girls have been making noise about gender and racial inequality in the art world since 1985. Fighting discrimination with a sense of humor and their signature faux fur, these masked feminists continue to challenge major museums to spotlight more women and artists of color.
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Toilet Strike: Matt Damon (Water.org)
Practitioner:
Matt Damon, Water.org
Date:
Feb 12 2013
For the launch of a new organization fighting to end the water crisis, Matt Damon, Co-founder of Water.org, has produced a video using humor to shed light on the issue of access to clean water. In the spoof, he holds a press conference at which he announces that he will "not go to the bathroom until everyone has access clean water," calling for a "toilet strike." 
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Waste Land Project
Practitioner:
Vik Muniz
Date:
Feb 5 2008
The project involved creating portraits of garbage pickers from the Jardim Gramacho landfill near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using materials found in the landfill itself. Muniz worked with the garbage pickers to create the portraits, which were then photographed and exhibited in galleries around the world. The project aimed to raise awareness of the plight of the garbage pickers and the environmental issues associated with landfill waste.
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Emoj:,conned
Practitioner:
Peter Sather
Date:
Apr 27 2018
About a year ago my girlfriend moved to Japan to teach English in Tokyo for two years. (Don’t worry, this isn’t a sob story.) Having spent the greater part of our relationship physically separated, thought it was a challenge we felt prepared for. Like any other self-respecting relationship, we constantly exchange obtuse pop culture references and niche anime memes thanks to text and wifi.
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Activists lay thousands of shoes outside Capitol for children killed by gun violence
Practitioner:
avaaz
Date:
Mar 13 2018
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of shoes were laid outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to represent children who have been killed by gun violence. Avaaz, an international advocacy group, planned the demonstration to honor victims killed since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
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Lady Gaga's Meat dress
Practitioner:
Lady Gaga
Date:
Sep 12 2010
Lady Gaga showed up to the 2010 MTV Music Video Awards wearing a dress made out of raw meat. She claimed that the dress showed her disgust towards the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, but missed the media opportunity to clearly string her thoughts together.
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German Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against Themselves
Practitioner:
EXIT
Date:
Nov 15 2014
The tiny German town of Wunsiedel has for decades seen crowds of neo-Nazis pass through its streets in annual demonstrations, but this year something was different. While the extremists received a frigid welcome in past years, they were met with colorful banners, cheering locals and a booth of free bananas during their latest march on Nov. 15.
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ALT/Space: Teaching Artists Stories from the Field
Practitioner:
Malke Rosenfeld, Teaching Artist Journal
Date:
Aug 27 2014
In this space, Teaching Artist contributors from around the U.S. and the world bring you stories of their work at the crossroads of art and learning. The stories that our bloggers bring to ALT/space are born inside the practice of teaching and art making in all artistic and expressive mediums: visual arts, dance, traditional arts, outsider art, music, theater, storytelling, writing and…?
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Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Oct 12 2010
Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
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May Day Occupation at Guggenheim
Practitioner:
Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction
Date:
May 1 2015
At noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (known as G.U.L.F.) unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s board of trustees to discuss the labor conditions at its Abu Dhabi site.
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Clowns against (Nazi) Clowns
Practitioner:
Loldiers of Odin, Coup Clutz Clowns, English Disco Lovers, et al.
Date:
Aug 26 2017
Trolls chanted in the streets the day of a planned neo-Nazi rally in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana earlier this year. But they were not the trolls that residents had been expecting—namely, white supremacists from around the country, who had been harassing the town's Jewish community with death threats.
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Sister Activism: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Practitioner:
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Date:
Jan 9 2014
If you've been to a Bay Area protest or community event, you've probably seen -- or even met those nuns in whiteface -- The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Devoted to human rights globally and locally, AIDS education, and respect for diversity, this controversial Order of Queer Nuns has long been a staple of San Francisco's cultural fabric. They join host Joseph Pace for the hour. Guests:
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People of Japan is a snapshot of daily life across Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka
Practitioner:
Mark Manzi
Date:
Mar 1 2021
For his latest project, Mark Manzi found himself outside of his comfort zone. For the Amsterdam-based photographer and designer, People of Japan was an attempt to break from his photography-first portfolio. “In the past, my work was very image-focused, whereas with this book I wanted to scan objects, collect receipts, record noises, add copy, and really create something visually striking,” he says.
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