We have 181 blogposts in the field of discrimination.
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Amazon Eve have experienced firsthand about the wage gap
By Marc van Gurp on 21 March 2016Read moreEqual Pay Day is originally started as a Belgian initiative and now grown into European level. Because the pay gap is still a problem in and for all European member states. The day is the annual day to pay attention to this inequality. Equal Pay...
0Student with Down syndrome asks: #HowDoYouSeeMe?
By Marc van Gurp on 20 March 2016Read moreCoorDown, Italy’s National organisation for people with Down Syndrome, just launched a new campaign for World Down Syndrome Day which is held on Monday 21st March. In the campaign video Hollywood actress Olivia Wilde Until is visible for the first 1:30. She is...
#BellLetsTalk Day: Dialogue, Brands, and Microdonations
By Tom Megginson on 27 January 2016Read 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...
Migrant workers respond to comments about them
By Marc van Gurp on 23 January 2016Read 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
By Tom Megginson on 26 November 2015Read 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
By Marc van Gurp on 15 November 2015Read 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
By Tom Megginson on 12 November 2015Read 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?
By Reuben Turner on 23 September 2015Read 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.
By Marc van Gurp on 7 September 2015Read 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
By Tom Megginson on 25 August 2015Read 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,...