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2016
Create for Change

Huiran Favorite 

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Gallery Projects

"Say No to Pig Hand": Anti Public Transport Sexual Harassment
Practitioner
Leilei Zhang, Xie Shuang, Miss Shi, Miss Hu
Date
May 17 2017

Leilei Zhang was harassed on a public bus when a man gripped her hand, glared at her and refused to let go. With the determination to raise public awareness, Leilei began a crowd-funding campaign to raise money for what could have been China's first public anti-sexual harassment advertisement. She approached the authorities of her home city, Guangzhou, but it did not want to take on the advertising for fear it would panic the public.

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Artist Using Cameras inside Her Vagina to Explore Female Gaze and Body
Practitioner
Dani Lessnau
Date
Jan 31 2018

As the female gaze comes to the fore, artists are beginning to examine and explore the possibilities of what exists, what it is to be a woman looking at the world outside of her self. For American artist Dani Lessnau, the gaze opened the door into uncharted realms in search of the things that a camera can capture that the human eye might otherwise miss.

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Vetements old clothes piles against fast fashion
Practitioner
Vetements
Date
Feb 8 2018

Vetements' trademark is for subverting the fashion industry’s ways of doing things. Following its recent return to the runway after a short one season break, designer Demna Gvasalia has unveiled his latest project.

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Congo La Sape
Practitioner
Sapeurs
Date
Apr 1 2014

Their name, Sapeurs, comes from the French slang se saper, meaning to dress with class, but also from the acronym of their social group : La Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (the Society of Ambianceurs and Elegant Persons). La Sape can be traced back to the early years of colonialism.

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Chinese 'naked' wedding celebrations focus on love - not money
Practitioner
Ten couple from Zhejiang
Date
Mar 24 2015

Ten couples covered in body paint wearing only their underwear have celebrated their “naked weddings” at Hangzhou Paradise amusement park in Zhejiang province. The couples, some of whom have been married for many years, said they were rejecting modern Chinese values, which place greater value on money than love. In China, a naked wedding involves a couple marrying without owning a house or car.

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Fashion As Political Activism
Practitioner
NYFW
Date
Feb 1 2017

After eight days of fall/winter New York Fashion Week, the most prominent trend—pervading both the runways and streets—has been social and political activism. To outsiders, New York Fashion Week may seem trivial in a time of more pressing news, but beyond being an escape, it’s a representation of how art can comment on social and political issues.

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Chinese High School Students Making Film about Trans Gender
Practitioner
Hu Ranan
Date
Oct 23 2017

A high school student from The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China Made a Movie about "Sexual Minorities", a Topic Avoided By Almost Every Parent. How Should We Start Talking About This?" was widely circulated among people on Wechat. The topic "High School Students Made a Trans Movie" went viral and ranked highly on Weibo’s most searched topics.

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Don't Cover Up, Set Up - Chinese Women Against Domestic Violence
Practitioner
Justice4her
Date
Jan 1 2017

The video DON’T COVER UP, STEP UP is a public service announcement raising the issue of gender-based violence. In the video, a vlogger teaches her fans how to cover up bruises with makeup after she has been beaten by her husband. There is a twist in the story as the husband enters the scene at the end of the video.

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Chinese Feminist Occupy the Men's Toilets
Practitioner
Li Maizi
Date
Jun 25 2014

Women around the world fed up with long lines for the ladies’ restroom have a new folk hero: a Beijing college student leading her own version of an “occupy” movement in southern China.

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Chinese Feminist Act Against Sexual Harassment on Subway
Practitioner
Zheng Xi
Date
Dec 1 2017

Zheng Xi 郑熹, a Ph.D. candidate with a focus on gender studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. Zheng has launched a campaign asking city governments around China to display anti-sexual-harassment logos, complete with a groper’s “salty-pig hand” visual (etymological context here), alongside other commonly displayed public safety logos on places like subway trains and buses.

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Chinese Rock Music in 1990s for Freedom
Practitioner
Cui Jian
Date
Jun 4 1989

The rise of rock and roll in the late 1980 was largely associated with the student movements taking place at the same time. Cui Jian, considered by many to be the godfather of Chinese rock, even performed for the students on hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

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Naked Barcelona Animal Rights Activists Covered in Blood to be "Human Meat" Protesting
Practitioner
Barcelona Animal Rights Activists
Date
May 23 2016

Naked animal rights activists have covered themselves in blood and wrapped themselves in giant meat packaging in the middle of Barcelona.

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