MSF (Doctors w/o Borders) estimates more than 6,700 Rohingya have been killed in Myanmar since August. According to MSF: 69% of the violence-related deaths were caused by gunshots 9% were due to being burnt to death in their houses 5% were beaten to death. Among the refugees are many young children At least 6,700 Rohingya… Read More Genocide in Buddhist Myanmar
#Woke. This meme explores the issues, ambiguities, conflicts and contradictions hidden with the concept of #Woke. The hashtag is a reminder that #Woke emerged most recently in the production and circulation of social media. This meme features the juxtaposition of three images that convey #Woke, one a hashtag of corporate social media: The second is… Read More Meme: #Woke
Text by Miss Rosen Posted Monday 11th December, 2017 Illustration © Avram Finkelstein originally published at HUCK magazine Legendary ACT UP founding member Avram Finkelstein combined art and activism to combat the AIDS crisis. Here, he shares the invaluable lessons he’s learned. During the early years of the AIDS crisis, when an HIV positive diagnosis meant certain… Read More ACT UP: Seven Lessons in Art and Activism
“Before We Were White” – ceremony and ancestral recovery for anti-racist action Online Workshop Series presented by White Awake Facilitators: Eleanor Hancock and Darcy Ottey “Your culture is your medicine.” – Jeff Duncan-Andrade, La Cultura Cura “Before We Were White” is an online workshop series for white-identified people seeking greater emotional resilience in their work against… Read More Before We Were White: Ceremony and Ancestral Recovery
A Buddhist approach to fashion might include this conceptual fashion disaster: waste as fashion, modeled by a beautiful and gifted gender-ambiguous Thai fashion designer, Madaew. When the Buddha gave instructions for his Bhikkhus to make their robes, he told them to gather old, used garments from corpses or garbage heaps, and sew them into the… Read More Buddha Style: Waste as Fashion
Is it possible that in the 21st century, Buddhist dharma and practice is becoming a Commons? For the first 100 years of Buddhism’s introduction to the West, up until the 70s, it was a pure gift of students and teachers who went to or came from Asia, some would say it was cultural robbery by… Read More Buddhism as a Commons
Human Flow review – Ai Weiwei’s urgent look at the scale of the refugee crisis Jordan HoffmanThursday 31 August 2017 15.01 EDT A point of view other than abject misery … Human Flow by Ai Weiwei. The international co-productions of the mid-20th century often boasted myriad shooting locations in far-flung places. Who would have guessed the… Read More Refugees: Human Flow, a film by Ai Weiwei
