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2016
CaroTimm

Projects tagged "Online"

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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This Woman Turned Her Collection of Unsolicited Dick Pics into an Art Show
Practitioner:
Whitney Bell
Date:
Apr 2 2016
Ah, the unsolicited dick pic. Technology has made it all too tempting for men's penises to pop up on a woman's phone while she's reading on the train or walking home from work. This is a fairly recent invention, because who would've taken their rolls of film to the local drug store to get their dick pics developed?
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TikTok Prank on Trump
Practitioner:
TikTok community
Date:
Jun 19 2020
Users on the social media app TikTok are claiming some credit for the disappointing turnout at the president's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the weekend, after a weeks-long campaign to artificially inflate the number of people registered to attend. The prank may have helped lead the Trump campaign to boast about more than a million people seeking tickets for the rally — while only about 6,200 ended up filling seats.
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The Girl Effect
Practitioner:
girlseffect.org
Date:
Apr 5 2015
The Girl Effect 2010 video "The Clock is Ticking" receives premiere at Clinton Global Initiative • "The Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking" video shown to world leaders at the Girls and Women opening plenary of CGI, Tuesday 21 September • Video highlights need for urgency: reach a girl before she reaches the age of 12 and stop poverty before it starts Background:
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Law of the Journey
Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei
Date:
Mar 16 2017
The exhibition Law of the Journey is Ai Weiwei’s multi-layered, epic statement on the human condition: an artist’s expression of empathy and moral concern in the face of continuous, uncontrolled destruction and carnage.
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Former Dazed editor Rod Stanley launched ‘Good Trouble’: an online zine celebrating the culture of resistance
Practitioner:
Rod Stanley, Good Trouble
Date:
Jan 1 2017
If, like me, you spent the days after Trump’s election in a depressed stupor wondering what – if anything – would change, look no further than Good Trouble. Set up by former Dazed editor Rod Stanley, it’s a new collective arts platform dedicated to celebrating the culture of resistance and grassroots activists promoting positive change.
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Photoshopped Sculpture
Practitioner:
Berlin ArtParasites (publisher)
Date:
Aug 24 2014
"The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly full of ourselves…" —Kiyun Kim
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Practitioner:
CJ_Musick_Lawy
Date:
Aug 11 2014
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Shows How Black People Are Portrayed in Mainstream Media. The hashtag demonstrates that the narrative the media continues to portray regarding black people isn’t always truthful.
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Bad News: the game
Practitioner:
DROG
Date:
Jan 1 2020
In Bad News, you take on the role of fake news-monger. Drop all pretense of ethics and choose a path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. But keep an eye on your ‘followers’ and ‘credibility’ meters. Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as a news site. But watch out: you lose if you tell obvious lies or disappoint your supporters!
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If I Don't Get Pants Nobody Gets Pants
Practitioner:
Theamat aka Cynthia Sousa
Date:
Mar 15 2015
Submission for The Line is Drawn, theme "Male superheroes see how the other side lives". Wonder Woman makes the rest of the JLA wear various costumes she's had over the years.
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Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
Practitioner:
Beamdog
Date:
Mar 31 2016
Original Story: The GOG and Steam store pages for Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear are littered with negative reviews, with gamers trashing the game largely as a result of an encounter that takes place between the player and a transgender character.
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Perigives
Practitioner:
Erin Da Eun Song
Date:
Jan 1 2019
The public bathrooms at Penn Station in New York City are a dirty, depressing place. But now, there’s a bright spot: a poster that encourages women to donate menstrual products, like pads or tampon, to help the many homeless women who frequent the bathroom.
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'Time to rebel': Greta Thunberg adds voice to new song by the 1975
Practitioner:
The 1975, Greta Thunberg
Date:
May 22 2020
Greta Thunberg has made her musical debut on a single by the 1975. On a track called The 1975, a version of which traditionally opens each of the British band’s albums, the 16-year-old environmental activist restates her position on the need to act on the climate emergency.
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#BringBackOurGirls
Practitioner:
Social Media Users Worldwide
Date:
May 2 2014
On April 15 in northern Nigeria, 200 school girls aged 15-18 were kidnapped by an extremist Muslim group called Boko Haram, whose name in the Hausa language means “Western education is a sin.” In hopes of viral pressure on Nigerian authorities to try to recover the girls, campaigns have started on the White House website, on Change.org and on Facebook to demand: “Bring Back Our Girls.” The campaigns quickly gained global attention, with Michelle Obama,
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performance art protest against campus lockdown due to covid
Practitioner:
student from Beijing Film Academy
Date:
Nov 22 2021
A performance art piece by a student who sat in a cage to protest a draconian lockdown of the Beijing Film Academy (BFA) recently went viral, and was censored just as quickly. Like many other Chinese citizens, university students have been living under strict lockdowns, and are beginning to chafe at the restrictions—and at administrators’ lack of responsiveness to students’ concerns.
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EVOKE: Can young adults help solve global problems?
Practitioner:
World Bank
Date:
Mar 1 2010
What happens when a game designer from the Institute of the Future teams up with the World Bank to create a "game for change"? EVOKE is what happens. 
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Protest Protest
Practitioner:
protestprotest.com
Date:
Apr 6 2013
This is a Universal Alignment Focal Point issue.
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@muchachafanzine
Practitioner:
muchachafanzine
Date:
Jan 1 2011
The user muchachafanzine on instagram is an activist who writes a "decolonial native xicana feminist fanzine". They are an online activist and they spread their message through their page, the zine, and through merchandise. Daisy Salinas began Muchacha Fanzine as a feminist punk zine in 2011. Over the years, Muchacha has grown into a larger, submission-based compilation of work by marginalized voices from around the world.
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SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACE
Practitioner:
Social Impact Media Awards
Date:
Apr 1 2018
One film to change the world. Curated every month. BURDEN OF PEACE follows Guatemala’s first female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz in her fight against impunity. Throughout April 2018 a global audience came together to watch BURDEN OF PEACE, and to dig deep into the issues of women in power with our action kit, bonus features and Impact Talks podcast.
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A Lesson on Diversity & Inclusion from the Savage X Fenty Show
Practitioner:
Rihanna
Date:
Sep 1 2018
Yesterday, I procrastinated my way to watching the Savage X Fenty Show, and I was left in complete awe of Rihanna. She truly is a powerhouse, but on top of that, all her brands; Fenty Beauty, Savage X Fenty and Fenty have intentionally left no one behind.
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Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg
Practitioner:
Melting Ice
Date:
Dec 1 2018
The stunt aims to show the impact of climate change by live streaming the sculpture melting. A climate change group is raising half a million dollars with the goal of carving President Donald Trump’s face into an arctic iceberg. The Finnish group Melting Ice is spearheading the initiative with the intention of carving a 115-foot ice sculpture of Mr Trump’s face, and have dubbed the effort “Project Trumpmore”.
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Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore Manafacturing
Practitioner:
Channel 4 Education and Littleloud
Date:
Jul 17 2011
From the Games for Change website:
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Nude Protests and Political Contradictions
Practitioner:
Bloggers
Date:
Apr 22 2013
Last month Amina Tyler, a 19 year old Tunisian blogger, posted a nude photo of herself as a protest; she is now under death threat. In her defense, the Ukrainian group Femen [13] staged a global "topless jihad" [14] on April 4, causing widespread debate [15] about nude protests [16], freedom of expression, and Femen's politics. [17]
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The Panama Papers
Practitioner:
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Date:
Apr 3 2016
A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
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Abercrombie and Fat
Practitioner:
Jes Baker
Date:
May 20 2013
Jes 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 of friends. He continues to say that his business is exclusive and a lot of people do not belong in his clothes.
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