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Feminist Struggles: from Workshops to Rights
How Argentina’s 35th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Travesti, Intersex, Bisexual, and Non-Binary shapes feminisms in 2022.
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“We Are Not Safe:” Platform Censorship And Algorithmic Trauma
Oppressive social structures are coded into our feeds to alienate and harm marginalized identity dissidents in Latin America. How can we fight back?
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The Currency of an Identity. On the Design of Egyptian Banknotes.
In search of Egyptian identity from ancient Pharaonic civilization, Islamic heritage, pan-Arabism, and back through the study of its banknotes.
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The Currency of an Identity. On the Design of Egyptian Banknotes.
In search of Egyptian identity from ancient Pharaonic civilization, Islamic heritage, pan-Arabism, and back through the study of its banknotes.
#Incomplete Compendia
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Decolonizing Typography: An Annotated Bibliography
Collectively gathered and by no means exhaustive list of resources critically examining the politics of type design.
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#Against the Grain
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A Passive Mob: How Videogames Silence Dissent
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#Designing Resistance
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My Grandma is Not a Cyborg
On the oppression of everyday objects, and how to hack the diversity design gap.
#Making and Unmaking
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A Water Story
Tracing the ebbs and flows of India’s shifting aquatic ecosystems
#Designing Resistance
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One NO Leads To a Thousand More
Tear gas and transnational solidarity: a letter to Asma, the defiant customs worker at the Port of Suez.
#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS
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Becoming Savage
A Guarani Mbya leader on environmental activism, food autonomy, and why we should all challenge the concept of “civilization.”
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As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
#Feminist Curricula
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Institutional Frictions
Reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of bringing activism into the design classroom
#Making and Unmaking
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When a Stone Says No
Following willful stones and the creative potential of refusal against cultural colonialism.
#Living Archives
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(Re)claiming Archives: استعادة الأرشيف
A palace of memories for collective imagination قصر للذاكرة الجماعية والأحلام العامة لتتذكرها وتتخيلها
#Epistemic Activism
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“The War is inside us”
How can we even begin to understand the conflict in Ukraine?
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#Living Archives
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Flat-Packed History
Disassembling simplified narratives and recovering anti-imperialist histories in Northern Ireland.
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A Race Against Time
How the digital gallery Swatch Bharat is documenting the rapidly disappearing native Indian aesthetic.
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“Please Say More”
Bec Wonders on the Vancouver Women’s Library, the legacy of feminist archives, and the complex history of female conflict.
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#Designing Resistance
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A Designerly Inventory
Provocations to elicit questions, prompt critical thinking and help designers reconfigure their discipline.
#Making and Unmaking
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A Critical Statement
Why I became a product designer who does not want to design products.
#Against the Grain
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Named After Men
Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.
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#Image Matters
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Yemanjá, the Whitewashed Orisha
Unpacking Brazilian diasporic memories and aspects of structural racism through an iconographic analysis.
#Feminist Curricula
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Teach What You Need to Learn
A conversation about the Swedish Master program critically addressing visual standards and promoting “norm creativity.”
#Making and Unmaking
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A Rejection of the Term “Vernacular”
An analysis of the colonizing word coined for the sake of othering design languages that dare to challenge Eurocentric norms.
#Against the Grain
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Chasing Images
In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.
#Vulnerable Observers
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Living an Immigrant Life
Settling and unsettling experiences of an Argentinian designer living abroad.
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#Politics of Display
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Reflejos Ajenos
The museum, national identity and the impossibility of classifying the intangible.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Gold
Fighting for existence in the wake of stolen wealth, toxic metals, gilded bureaucrats and golden visas.
#Vulnerable Observers
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minimal id entity
Bodies and selves: Reflections on visual coding and identity by Dior Thiam.
#Making and Unmaking
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#Fashion #SustainableFashion #FashionFutures
Debunking hashtags to imagine generative fashion systems in times of ecological collapse.
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#Against the Grain
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Errata
An exhibition about the invisibility of Portuguese women designers.
