Word: conscious
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from Judith Butler, Zahr says, “Drag is also a hyperbolic performance of gender in order to destabilize any normative or confining notion of gender. It’s important to highlight the difference in order to undermine it. There’s a power in being conscious...
...engrossed in our posters while you watch us out of the corner of your eye and feel yourself getting secretly turned on. If you feel queasy, go ahead and feel queasy. All we ask is that you’re honest with yourself about your reaction, and then critically conscious about why you react the way you do. We’ll give you a hint: feeling uncomfortable is precisely the point. Please realize that we will feel uncomfortable too. We’ve talked this over with our parents and blockmates and lovers, mulled over how we?...
...religious event. Around one million Iraqi Shiites crammed into the southern holy city in an emotional outpouring not only of spiritual fervor, but also communal pride and identity. Comprising 60 percent of Iraqis, they had long been banned from performing the ritual, and their celebration at Kerbala marked a conscious effort - encouraged by their clergy - to assert their determination to claim for the first time a say in Iraq's future commensurate with their number. It was an impressive end to two weeks of organizing in which local imams around the country, acting on orders from the central religious authority...
Many of the pieces leaned towards the evocative and politically conscious rather than the campy. Fake checks from the “Bank of the Lapsed Conscience” showed the $3.75 billion given by the United States to Israel each year in aid and cited statistics of human rights abuses that tax dollars allegedly support. And under a large sign reading “Fear is Love,” audience members saw video footage of the other room of the two-room ArtSpace—realizing all their movements were recorded as they moved among the works...
...they admit that although their constituency is more conscious of these issues than it might have been, say in 1972 at Radcliffe, it’s not as diverse as it might...