Yesterday, April 26, Elena Milashina, the Russian journalist who first revealed Chechnya’s systematic torture of gay men in the publication Novaya Gazeta, went into hiding following death threats. It is believed that the threats were partly motivated by a widely publicized sermon in which 15,000 people were present at a Chechen mosque where Muslim clerics called…
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Heading to the bathroom is a simple task for most people but for transgender men and women in our society it is a daily struggle. The walk to a door marked with recognizable signage—a stick figure with or without a triangle dress—is one more way that transgender people, especially transgender youth have to define who they are.…
Anri Sala Answer Me The New Museum 235 Bowery New York, NY 10002 Second, Third, and Fourth Floors February 3–April 10, 2016 In February 2016, The New Museum will present a major exhibition of the work of Anri Sala (b. 1974, Tirana, Albania), whose innovative and rigorous work has garnered critical acclaim. Highlighting Sala’s poetic…
Chanel, Dior and Lanvin are among a collection of design houses to contribute their own unique ragdoll to UNICEF's Pigotta Project. Each house designed a doll to be sold at the UNICEF auction, due on December 2nd, at the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris. The figurines go on display at Paris’s Petit Palais…
LONDON RIOTS AUGUST 21, 2011, Video Footage by Jamie McGregor Smith THE YEAR OF UNREST 2011 will be remembered as a year of unprecedented rioting and protests in Western countries, with the London riots and later the Occupy Movement leading the headlines since it's onset in September. By October 9, The Occupy protests had taken…