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#Feminist Findings
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A Letter from the Future
Connecting across time and space with the team behind Berlin’s Courage magazine.
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A Letter from the Future
Connecting across time and space with the team behind Berlin’s Courage magazine.
#Designing Resistance
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Is There Anyone Reading out There?
A step into 90s Italian fanzine scene: Speed Demon and its queer community.
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Is There Anyone Reading out There?
A step into 90s Italian fanzine scene: Speed Demon and its queer community.
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Yellow
Framing and re-framing oppression through cinematic clichés, khaki hues, and a desert of lies.
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#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Yellow
Framing and re-framing oppression through cinematic clichés, khaki hues, and a desert of lies.
#Against the Grain
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When a Tree Says No
Following histories of deforestation, dispossesion, epistemic violence, and resistance.
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When a Tree Says No
Following histories of deforestation, dispossession, epistemic violence, and resistance.
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Pen Pal Plots
A fictional American woman‘s correspondence with three memorable cover girls that graced the magazine Soviet Woman.
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Pen Pal Plots
A fictional American woman‘s correspondence with three memorable cover girls that graced the magazine Soviet Woman.
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Before and After
Make-over fantasies, flawed dualisms, and how two images side by side can change public space.
#Politics of Display
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Before and After
Make-over fantasies, flawed dualisms, and how two images side by side can change public space.
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Some Serious Surprises
A list of articles on feminist publishing in the 1980s feminist art magazine Chrysalis.
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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 Findings
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Some Serious Surprises
A list of articles on feminist publishing in the 1980s feminist art magazine Chrysalis.
#Against the Grain
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Culture, No Context:
Face to face with the ethics of European Ethnographic Museums.
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Culture, No Context
Face to face with the ethics of European Ethnographic Museums.
#Pedagogies of Freedom
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
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#Feminist Curricula
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A Fashion Degree in Humanswear?
Students and educators doing fashion beyond binaries and norms.
#Complaint Collective
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
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Follow the Money
Questioning the politics of the US funding of Lebanese women’s studies journal Al-Raida.
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Follow the Money
Questioning the politics of the US funding of Lebanese women’s studies journal Al-Raida.
#Objects of Interest
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On Isolation, Heirlooms and Solidarity
How the Sankara Rug became a comfort away from home.
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On Isolation, Heirlooms and Solidarity
How the Sankara Rug became a comfort away from home.
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Iterative at Heart
Spare Rib’s continuously shifting design found a middle-ground between mainstream and counterculture.
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Iterative at Heart
Spare Rib’s continuously shifting design found a middle-ground between mainstream and counterculture.
#Designing Resistance
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A Self in Relation
Tender rituals and joyful interventions in the face of loneliness.
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A Self in Relation
Tender rituals and joyful interventions in the face of loneliness.
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A Cocktail of Feminist Fuel
A chronicle of recent events unfolding in the Swiss public and mediatic spaces, centered around the racist anti-Muslim “face covering” referendum.
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A Cocktail of Feminist Fuel
A chronicle of recent events unfolding in the Swiss public and mediatic spaces, centered around the racist anti-Muslim “face covering” referendum.
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Together We are Giants
What the 8M demonstration in Rio de Janeiro has taught me about design as a practice of autonomy and freedom.
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Together We are Giants
What the 8M demonstration in Rio de Janeiro has taught me about design as a practice of autonomy and freedom.
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The Void
What the lack of documentation on Feminist Yiddish periodicals brings to light.
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The Void
What the lack of documentation on Feminist Yiddish periodicals brings to light.
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Feminism. What’s In a Word?
Reclaiming the keyword for women’s liberation from misogynistic nineteenth-century French literature.
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Feminism. What’s In a Word?
Reclaiming the keyword for women’s liberation from misogynistic nineteenth-century French literature.