Social Protest News Today

"As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston" and "Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant" run through April 21 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts.

Before delving into the social issues that Christian Walker wrestled with in his relatively short but vibrant career (spanning the mid 1970s through the mid 1990s) his quieter formal achievements should be considered.

A 25-year-old man from the Hingoli district in Maharashtra took his own life and left a note connecting his death to Maratha quota issue.

The Butterfly Effect is a new and evolving public programme, lasting 18 months, which is conceived and presented by Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in northern Norway / Sápmi. 

The chapter of Robert Lumley's excellent book on the mass struggles in Italy of the 60s and 70s detailing how the unions re-gained control of the social movements and channelled them into "representative" politics.

The Atlanta Opera has announced that five creative teams have been selected to participate in the second annual 96-Hour Opera Project, a composition competition and showcase that pairs composers and librettists to write ten-minute operas. Bringing their completed works to Atlanta, the teams will workshop and rehearse their productions over four days from June 9–12, with travel, housing, singers, pianists and rehearsal space provided.

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Group exhibition with 12 contemporary women artists working with textiles and ceramics. Curated by Ferren Gipson from the research of her book "Womens Work".

Professor and Eisner Award-winning author Qiana Whitted dissects captions and corpses.

Qiana Witted is an author and professor at the University of South Carolina, who will discuss "Captions and Corpses: How to Read an EC Comic" on Feb. 7 at SDSU, addressing the ways one comic book publisher dealt with social messages in the 1950s