Nonconsensual Pornography: How (In)Action Informs Culture
Last Thursday, AI-generated pornographic deepfakes — images that are algorithmically created or altered to look extremely realistic — depicting Swift began circulating on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Swift did not create, or consent to release and wide circulation of, these explicit images. While some may identify this type of attack as "revenge porn", the accurate term for this type of violating and violent online attack is "nonconsensual pornography." Calling this type of online violence “revenge porn” is a misnomer, because offenders are often motivated by something other than revenge, such as attention, extortion/financial gain, or simply malice.
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Nudge Art: The Science, Meaning, and Impact
Nudge Art was developed to put behavioral insights into practice, and was first inspired by research into ambient belonging. Ambient belonging is defined as a feeling of fit in the environment, where people can make decisions to join a group based solely on exposure to that group's physical environment. The Harborview Nudge Art installation is designed to nudge towards gender-equal and inclusive beliefs and behaviors in a number of ways, including…
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Barbie Reinforces That "Seeing Is Believing"
As the Barbie movie approaches the $1.5 billion mark at box offices globally, we continue to celebrate its 10-weeks-and-running rise and impact — especially in reinforcing how Seeing Is Believing.
Its incredible box office success isn't just a boon for female directors, inspiration for budding directors and screenwriters, and empowerment of feminist narratives, ideals, and perceptions. There are also some other unexpected, and perhaps unusual, market externalities. Read on for more.
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Spain Wins, Yet Sexism Seemingly Still Takes Over
fter having watched the undeniably-talented Spanish national team play in their semifinal match against Sweden, it was disappointing to later see the sexism-laced takes on the team in the media. For example, a @nytimes Instagram post about the Spanish team’s 2023 World Cup victory includes a caption that spends more wordcount on the Spanish team's "drama" prior to arriving for the World Cup than on lauding its strength, speed, teamwork, and talent (don't just take my word for it; these superlatives are evidenced by simple game stats, like shots on goal and ball possession). But that pales in comparison to how the Spanish women's victory is now being overshadowed by the actions of the president of the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales.
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Shades of Equality: Climate Palette
The impact of climate change is global…and also gendered. The Shades of Equality Climate palette shares more about how climate change affects all of us, and some ways in which it also disproportionately affects women around the world. Read on to see how the Shades of Equality makes UN data and Oxfam reports more digestible.
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Shades of Equality: Health Palette
Gendered disparities in health are solvable, technical problems. But the disparities won’t solve themselves; we have to push for their solutions in every way we can.
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Shades Of Equality: Sports Palette
There are few realms in which gender disparities are more stark than the realm of sports:
Only 3.2% of sports media coverage is on women’s sports.
In professional basketball, the average man is paid 41x more than what the average woman is paid ($5,300,000 vs. $130,000).
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Activating Equal Play
Equal Play is a data visualization initiative that aims to shift beliefs and behaviors through awareness and inspiration. We kicked off the inaugural Equal Play design sprint with students at the Kansas City Art Institute in February. As of March 23, the Equal Play data visualizations had 1.86 MILLION impressions!
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Introducing Our Creators-in-Residence
We are thrilled to introduce the two newest members of the genEquality team, Adom M. Cooper and Amanda Lee Keammerer. As Creators-in-Residence, Adom and Amanda will each be working on a book project revolving around education, technology, equality, and inclusion.
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A Student's Experience Through Nudge Art
People will just see the paint; but behind the surface of the mural are students from different grades and backgrounds who came together as one to create a change, and that’s what's so special about the mural.
After all, we can only hope that what we hang on the walls of our school creates a change. However, what we can say for sure is that we’ve already made a change by working with one another.
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How Colors Can Start Conversations
When we created genEquality’s original branding in 2017, we gravitated towards colors that didn't have stereotypical gender associations: purple, green, gray, black and white. Over the years, we've struggled to find specific shades and colors that we felt connected to in any way - and we wanted to change that. In this process, we came up with something even more meaningful than a set of primary brand colors.
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Fonts Can Activate Equality and Inclusion
While women make up more than half of the design workforce, typography appears to be a particularly male-dominated area of the design industry. It’s been suggested that type design’s roots in the historically male-dominated world of printing has resulted in today’s gender disparities; as of 2019, only 24.6% of Rentafont's fonts were designed by female designers.
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