Projects tagged "Sex & Gender"

Camp Mossandsticks
Practitioner:
Camp Mossandsticks, Alex Tsocanos
Date:
Nov 6 2012
Camp Mossandsticks, named after moss and sticks--two of the most rudimentary tools with which one can spark fire--is a site for young women and girls to become resourceful, defiant, and self-sufficient revolutionaries of today. Started on November 6, 2012, the camp hosts workshops to spark the attendees’ inner political flames, challenging them to confront disenfranchisement created by the status quo and to take matters into their own hands.
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Cliteracy
Practitioner:
Sophia Wallace
Date:
Jun 1 2012
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#ShoutingBack with Coasters
Practitioner:
Lila Urda, Ranim Hadid, Madeleine Dalkie, Diana Al-Mahmood
Date:
Apr 18 2014
The group of NYU graduate students went to bars in Manhattan to shout back against sexual harassment and bring awareness to the Everyday Sexism project. Armed with coasters that said "#shoutingback" on them, as well as a slogan. Three different coasters with three different slogans were put on bars and tables in local watering holes. The slogans included "She ordered a drink.
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Abolish 153
Practitioner:
Abolish 153
Date:
Mar 8 2015
Our campaign aims to abolish article 153 from Kuwait’s penal code, which effectively gives men regulatory, judicial and executive power over their female kin in blatant disregard of the constitution, international agreements on human and women’s rights and even the Islamic Sharia.
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Fan Activism: Trans Interventions in Fandom and Beyond
Practitioner:
fans
Date:
Mar 10 2016
Fanfiction is political, subversive, radical. Writing Harry Potter as a girl, Hermione as black, or Ron as transgender exposes people to narratives written from the perspective of marginalized communities. But is writing fanfiction a type of activism?
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The Exquisite Uterus
Practitioner:
Alison Gates, Helen Klebesadel
Date:
Sep 4 2012
This project served as an educational tool to demystify the female body and bring awareness to the issues of reproductive rights and the ignorance that sometimes plagues common misconceptions about the reproductive system. I think this campaign is very successful in its approach. It exhibits paintings and displays of uterus and the female form in a non-sexual way.
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Lesbianas Se Difunden and the Feminist Movement in Spain: Taking Back Ownership of the Female Body
Practitioner:
Lesbianas Se Difunden
Date:
Jun 1 1995
From 1993 to 1998, Spanish activist group Lesbianas Se Difunden (LSD) produced and published a collection of texts and visuals called Non-Grata (Snyder 10), using erotic images of the female body and sexual relationships to capture their audiences’ attention. Within these graphic publications would be calls for queer activism, female freedom, anti-capitalist critiques, and the overall necessity for protest (Snyder 10).
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The Peoples Bank of Govanhill
Practitioner:
Ailie Rutherford, Katherine MacKinnon, Carmen Sawers
Date:
Sep 21 2019
The People’s Bank of Govanhill uses social and activist art practices to involve people in re-imagining the local economy, looking at how we can put feminist economics into practice in the local community.
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
Practitioner:
Iranti
Date:
Jan 3 2012
ONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what they see and hear.
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Art Activists Use Sex Dolls To Protest Spain's Controversial Anti-Abortion Law
Practitioner:
Luzinterruptus
Date:
Mar 24 2014
In response to Spain's increasingly restrictive legislation limiting access to abortion in the country, a group of art activists known for their bold, disruptive flair are taking action.
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Fully Automated Nikon (Object/Objection/Objectivity)
Practitioner:
Laurie Anderson
Date:
Apr 16 1973
"I decided to shoot pictures of men who made comments to me on the street. I had always hated this invasion of my privacy and now I had the means of my revenge. As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon, I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’ This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object.
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Ana Mendieta and Earth Art
Practitioner:
Ana Mendieta
Date:
Apr 20 2018
The works of Ana Mendieta tells a story of the power of the body and the earth, and methods of activism. ----
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SlutWalk
Practitioner:
SlutWalk Co-Founders Sonya Barnett and Heather Jarvis
Date:
Apr 3 2011
The SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance.
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Ex-Con Shareholder Goes After World's Biggest Prison Corporations
Practitioner:
Alex Friedmann
Date:
May 10 2012
From Mother JonesBy James RidgewayTomorrow, at the annual meeting of Corrections Corporation of America, the nation's largest private prison company,
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This Girl Can
Practitioner:
Sport England
Date:
Dec 15 2015
This Girl Can is a campaign launched by England Sports to encourage women to be active no matter how they do it or how they look. In common culture, the trend is to be fit, active, and toned. Social media is filled with women having "the perfect body", sculpted to perfection in every way. Although being healthy and fit is attainable with hard work and dedication, most women struggle to attain their goals.
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Reclaiming the Domestic
Practitioner:
Mary Sibande
Date:
Jan 7 2014
The work of South African artist Mary Sibande tells the tale of her alter-ego Sophie, a domestic worker who finds refuge in dreams where she emancipates herself from the ghoulish realism of an ordinary existence, cleaning other people's homes. Exploring the construction of identity within post-apartheid South Africa, Sibande's work probes the stereotypical contextualisation of the black female body.
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Los Intocables
Practitioner:
Erik Ravelo
Date:
Sep 1 2013
A CUBAN artist's controversial photographs of children being hung from crosses has landed him in hot water. Erik Ravelo took a series of photos of children hung like Jesus from a cross, but in the place of the cross were soldiers, surgeons, priests and Ronald McDonald.
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Carry the against sexual harassment billboard everyday
Practitioner:
Zhang Leilei
Date:
May 1 2016
In March 2016, Chinese feminist activists had planned to launch a crowdfunding campaign against sexual harassment advertisements, and they worked hard to raise 40,000 yuan in a month and a half. However, after perfunctory, evasive, and rejection by the relevant departments, anti-sexual harassment advertisements finally failed to go online.
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#Protect Girls Project -- Anti-surrogacy Stickers
Practitioner:
粉打PINKPUNCH
Date:
Jan 19 2021
Many girls in China may have seen the advertisements of egg donation as a surrogate, in hospitals, schools, public toilets, shared bikes, ATMs...... They are everywhere and the number of this kind of advertisements is large. Though there are lots of girls who have never seen such advertisements or would never believe in them, there would still be some girls who would dial the numbers on the advertisements.
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Shake Girl, The Graphic Novel
Practitioner:
Adam Johnson and Tom Kealey, Stanford students
Date:
Dec 2 2008
Shake Girl is a massive collaborative effort between fifteen students and two instructors over the course of one quarter (Winter 2008). These students comprise the first edition of the Stanford Graphic Novel Project -- a group dedicated to acheiving this monumental task on an annual basis.
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Women Circles for Development in Uganda
Practitioner:
Women And Children's Empowerment Network in Africa
Date:
Jan 24 2015
WACENA, was established in the year 2008 by a number of concerned mothers together with women students from Makerere University Kampala with a purpose of addressing and alleviating the acute and long-term consequences of violence against the women and children of Uganda.
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Russian Feminist Punk Rock
Practitioner:
Pussy Riot
Date:
Feb 8 2012
Anti-government protests in Russia are taking many different forms, from mass rallies and marches to defiant street art and music. Just recently, members of a feminist punk group were arrested in Moscow's Red Square after they performed a song ridiculing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The group, which calls itself Pussy Riot, says it's planning more stunts before March's presidential elections.
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Barbie Liberation Organization
Practitioner:
Barbie Liberation Organization
Date:
Dec 25 1993
On Christmas day in 1993, kids were finding more than they bargained for under their trees: Mattel’s new talking Barbie dolls growled “Dead men tell no lies,” while Hasbro’s macho GI Joe’s chirped “I love to shop with you.”
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Burkaphilia
Practitioner:
Behnaz Babazadeh
Date:
Jun 1 2012
When Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d grown used to wearing as part of her school uniform in her old home.
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Thus.
Practitioner:
nilankur
Date:
Mar 1 2014
This is an attempt to foster critical thinking and create social capital. www.thuscritique.wordpress.com
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