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Welcome to Revolution Treehouse, your corner of the Lawrentian for all things creative, outspoken and changemaking! Art of every form is an evocative and efficient vehicle for political ideas, ranging from the protest music of the Vietnam War era to the graffiti transformation of confederate monuments during summer 2020. This column aims to share great art and cool facts about important historical and contemporary social movements with the Lawrence community because knowledge and inspiration make us powerful. Welcome to Revolution Treehouse!
There aren’t enough good things to say about the multi-talented, multi-disciplinary Russian activist group Pussy Riot. Founded in Moscow in 2011, they have had a busy ten years protesting the Russian government through their performance art and absolutely bopping feminist punk rock music. They pull no punches in their art, exposing injustice and bigotry in the Russian government; their courageous actions have struck such a nerve
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Welcome to Revolution Treehouse, your corner of the Lawrentian for all things creative, outspoken and change-making! Art of every form is an evocative and efficient vehicle for political ideas, ranging from the protest music of the Vietnam War era to the graffiti transformation of confederate monuments during summer 2020. This column aims to share great art and cool facts about important historical and contemporary social movements with the Lawrence community because knowledge and inspiration make us powerful. Welcome to Revolution Treehouse!
Writer, poet and essayist Jenny Zhang was born in China, raised in New York and educated at Stanford University; her writings reflect the complexities of those histories and experiences. Growing up in Shanghai, young Zhang was an avid storyteller, but she became very uncomfortable with speaking after immigrating to the United States at four and a half years old and having to start over with a new language. In a May 2020 phone inte
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Welcome to Revolution Treehouse, your corner of the Lawrentian for all things creative, outspoken and changemaking! Art of every form is an evocative and efficient vehicle for political ideas, ranging from the protest music of the Vietnam War era to the graffiti transformation of confederate monu- ments during summer 2020. This column aims to share great art and cool facts about important historical and contempo- rary social movements with the Lawrence community because knowledge and inspiration make us powerful. Welcome to Revolution Treehouse!
Frida Kahlo’s face is ubiquitous to the point of commodifica- tion, appearing on objects such as mugs, shirts and even a Barbie doll, but the Mexican nationalism and anti-capitalism she advocated for in her art have, ironically, been erased from her story. Though Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, she frequently told people she was born in 1910, the year that the Mexican Revolution began, because she wanted her birth t