We have 179 blogposts in the field of discrimination.
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#BellLetsTalk Day: Dialogue, Brands, and Microdonations
Read moreIt’s Bell Let’s Talk Day in Canada, which means that telecommunications giat Bell Canada is promising a 5¢ donation for every text message or long-distance phone call sent on their network, or Tweet with the hashtag #BellLetsTalk, or share of...
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Migrant workers respond to comments about them
Read moreFamiliar Strangers is a campaign to both collect and share the stories of low-wage migrant workers in Singapore. Last week, the came up with this video which can be seen as a variation on Homeless people read mean tweets from...
#ItsNeverOkay makes harassment brutally frank
Read more**Trigger Warning: Sexual Harassment, Bullying, Implied Rape** In March, I wrote about the Government of Ontario’s great new anti-sexual-assault campaign, #WhoWillYouHelp. Now, they’re addressing some more subtle forms of harassment, both sexual and bullying, by having the offenders speak plainly...
Portraits of the Unseen Domestic Laborers
Read moreThis video from The Atlantic is about Ramiro Gomez, the son of Mexican immigrants. Because of his background he was always aware of the invisible domestic laborers. Ramiro became artist and his main topic is making the invisible people visible by placing their figures in scenes...
Undressing Disability: Speaking up for sexual needs
Read moreMuch of the social discourse about advertising involves the inappropriate sexualization of people in ads, especially women. But what if a group of people actually asks you to sexualize them? That’s the message behind Undressing Disability, a new campaign...
Another beauty vlogger?
Read moreThis, from Indian not-for-profit Make Love Not Scars, is a beauty video with a difference – a powerful campaigning tool that points out that it’s just as easy to buy lipstick to make yourself prettier, as it is to...
Obscene to some. Beautiful to us.
Read moreThis spot is from Queer Lisboa, the Portuguese Film Festival dedicated exclusively to screening gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual themed films, a genre known as Queer Cinema. The spot is a surprise every year. Controversial and still fun. This...
The erasure of LGBT youth
Read moreWell, “LG” anyway: These posters, for Czech LGBT support organization Sbarvouven, give a visual expression of how “in the closet” lesbian and gay youth feel themselves erased by having to pretend to be someone they’re not. Simple, but devastating. Agency: Oh,...
These revenge porn ads seem a little too sexy
Read moreI use my iPhone to text daily, but it took me a minute to figure out that these women were split up by the familiar “talk bubbles.” Then I had to admit to myself that I was instinctively distracted...
Omaha herpes ads are cruel to sufferers
Read moreThere’s an inherent problem in using shock or shame in a prevention campaign for sexually-transmitted infections, and it’s the effect your effort will have on people living with these diseases. Sure, you want people to have safer sex. But...
