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Activist Art Gallery

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A place to share activist and polemical art (visual and textual art with a critical social message).

Didactic, informatively conceptual arts imply collective action, encouraging us to make the world a better place.

Street art, murals, stickers, zines, and other forms of eye-catching arts can be shared with others and discussed here.

You may include photos of your own or other's artworks displayed in public.

Art opposing the Right Wing is the so far the most popular.

Enjoy! Looking forward to seeing and discussing what is shared!

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Outside of the conservative circles where it doesn't matter anyway...hasn't sex positivity only been in the rise? At the very least, it still exists today

[–] lightscription@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My feeling is that there is still a puritanical streak both on the left and right.

I don't know where people are getting their "hook up" culture. The statistical analysis I have heard about sexual life in colleges actually states that there aren't widely distributed high frequencies, but more like a few people get a lot and most don't.

The left seems pretty prude these days. I think there was a consensus that "free love" back fired in the past so people try to ignore it if they can most of the time these days unless it involves other than normative orientations.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough, I didn't think you meant the free love movement. I think the reason those numbers are falling is not because the world is more prude, though. There's a ton of factors at play - money, entertainment, and laws.

Social events/dating is prohibitively expensive for a lot of people nowadays and there's even less reason to do it now that technology has taken away a lot of the reasons people go out. So people are meeting less in general and therefore hooking up less

Women's rights are also being eroded across the world and an accidental pregnancy is not worth the risk. Can't get an abortion, can't afford to be a parent. There's more awareness of STDs and a LOT more awareness of sexual predators...not to mention awareness of how the courts often let them get away with it.

Another thing I just thought of - it's financially beneficial to "settle down" with one person. More and more people are incapable of affording housing on a single income. I've been joking about making a dating app profile with the bio "HOMEOWNER LOOKING FOR A WOMAN TO SPLIT THESE MORTGAGE PAYMENTS WITH"

[–] lightscription@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

yep, that might do it : )

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

There was once more to life than getting the next happy chemical. Used to be that pretty girls gave me butterflies. Now they make me cautious about what kind of chip is on their shoulder.

Used to be that I asked for a game and got a game that meant so much fun with my siblings! Now I pay $60 in mtx, get a couple nice cars and then have them taken away next update. No refunds.