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Facebook’s Censoring of Women's Bodies is Nipocrisy

As long as Facebook and Instagram maintain a policy that female nipples are offensive and male nipples are not, they get to decide whose bodies count as valid for public viewing and whose bodies don't.

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It’s Time to Commission a Memorial to Slavery at McGill University

The memorial should provoke questions such as: What are the implications for such a memorial for the descendants of the Black and Indigenous enslaved?

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Fun Facts I Learned from a Year of Producing No Garbage

We’ve all seen the zero wasters on Instagram showing off their mason jars full of a year’s worth of trash. But most people aren’t going to be willing or able to change their lifestyles to that degree.

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Looking at Chuck Close Through His Portrait of Bill Clinton

Something inside Clinton’s and Close’s psyche compartmentalized too much, echoing the grid of the portrait. Both inflicted far more harm than each realized.

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Why Connecting Legal and Medical Professionals to Art is Essential

I would argue there is no anti-racist practice without empathy, without the capacity to overcome bias and think deeply about the experience of others, and to treat them with care.

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An Open Letter Regarding Anti-Blackness in the US Art Scene

My little gallery was smeared as the creators of an anonymous account that exposes racism in the art world and I soon became a pariah of the art world.

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New Anti-Riot Bills Threaten the Work of Social Practice Artists

The Florida anti-riot law can also be interpreted to punish people who attend a peaceful protest that turns riotous, though they do not commit riotous acts themselves.

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Vermont Law School Is Right to Cover Over a Controversial Mural

Free speech is a fundamental right that should be protected. VLS’s decision, though, is not about the censoring of speech.

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Austria Should Repatriate the Mexica Headdress

The headdress in Austria is the only one of its kind and it's not only a work of art, but a representation of the identity and landscape of Mexico that was stripped from the nation by colonial forces.

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Berlin's Humboldt Forum Is a Strange Marriage of Progressive Content and Conservative Form

The Humboldt Forum thinks it can genuinely pursue and cultivate “peaceful dialogue between cultures” from a position of global power. I’m not so sure.

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Why the Gay Pride Flag Still Matters

The rainbow, which is still perhaps the most commonly known symbol for the LGBTQIA+ community, has gone through a cultural tug of war over the years.

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Artists Should Never Take on a Commission Without a Contract

By the end of my commissioned project, it was obvious that the agency owner had no respect for me as an artist, a contractor, or even as a person.