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#Designing Resistance
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Access to Culture: Who Holds the Key?
Lessons from Madrid’s approach to community cultural management
#Designing Resistance
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Access to Culture: Who Holds the Key?
Lessons from Madrid’s approach to community cultural management
#Feminist Findings
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“What Do You Think History Is?”
A brief conversation with Liza Cowan, editor of 1970s lesbian separatist periodical DYKE A Quarterly.
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“What Do You Think History Is?”
A brief conversation with Liza Cowan, editor of 1970s lesbian separatist periodical DYKE A Quarterly.
#Complaint Collective
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Calling Out Dutch Art Institutions
An anonymous Instagram account cries for accountability in the Dutch art and design scene. What happens next?
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#Complaint Collective
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Calling Out Dutch Art Institutions
An anonymous Instagram account cries for accountability in the Dutch art and design scene. What happens next?
#Pedagogies of Freedom
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Disrupting Design with Capital “D”
Designer and educator Ramon Tejada on embracing your own voice, asking uncomfortable questions and making spaces in design education.
#Feminist Curricula
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Disrupting Design with Capital “D”
Designer and educator Ramon Tejada on embracing your own voice, asking uncomfortable questions and making spaces in design education.
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#Feminist Findings
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Torn in Two Directions
The journal making space for Muslim women’s voices during France’s notorious “veil affair.”
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Torn in Two Directions
The journal making space for Muslim women’s voices during France’s notorious “veil affair.”
#Designing Resistance
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Refugees Welcome?
Challenging structural racism and apathy with illustrative storytelling.
#Designing Resistance
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Refugees Welcome?
Challenging structural racism and apathy with illustrative storytelling.
#Complaint Collective
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.
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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.
#Complaint Collective
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.
#Feminist Findings
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Another Aspekt of Feminism
The 1990s journal that made
feminist writing available in Slovakia for the first time.
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Another Aspekt of Feminism
The 1990s journal that made
feminist writing available in Slovakia for the first time.
#Colonial Histories
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Blue
Bolting a chain of exploitation, from hardy rocky plants, to deep indigo dyes, and monumental stones.
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#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Blue
Bolting a chain of exploitation, from hardy rocky plants, to deep indigo dyes, and monumental stones.
#Feminist Findings
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The Courage to Take Space
What can mapping the 1970s Women’s Movement in Germany tell us about feminism today?
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The Courage to Take Space
What can mapping the 1970s Women’s Movement in Germany tell us about feminism today?
#Against the Grain
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An Accidental Game of Telephone
How a group of women designed the Black Panther logo.
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#Against the Grain
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An Accidental Game of Telephone
How a group of women designed the Black Panther logo.
#Feminist Findings
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A Writer Is a Woman Who Writes
The ways Iowa City’s Common Lives/Lesbian Lives attracted its various voices.
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A Writer Is a Woman Who Writes
The ways Iowa City’s Common Lives/Lesbian Lives attracted its various voices.
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#Against the Grain
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Histories Neglected by History
The textbook closing the gap on the history of Arab graphic design.
#Against the Grain
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Histories Neglected by History
The textbook closing the gap on the history of Arab graphic design.
#Feminist Findings
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Whose Agenda?
The complex, contradictory first decade of South Africa’s academic journal about gender and activism.
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Whose Agenda?
The complex, contradictory first decade of South Africa’s academic journal about gender and activism.
#Designing Resistance
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Against Performative Positivity
Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.
#Designing Resistance
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Against Performative Positivity
Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.
#Feminist Findings
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Financing Feminism Through Beads and Brioche
In the late 70s in Paris, an underground salon disguised itself as a tearoom
to smuggle subversive ideas.
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Financing Feminism Through Beads and Brioche
In the late 70s in Paris, an underground salon disguised itself as a tearoom
to smuggle subversive ideas.
#Voices
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”
#Feminist Findings
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Every One Page
A poem honoring the person who scanned all 27 issues of Heresies magazine.
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Every One Page
A poem honoring the person who scanned all 27 issues of Heresies magazine.