Civil Liberties

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  Photo Gallery

  Living in Fear: Gay and Persecuted in Uganda

  December 3, 2013 - 

  Photographs capture sorrow, anger and glimpses of hope in Uganda, where pastors and politicians alike have inveighed against same-sex relations, leading many gays and lesbians to experience eviction, job loss, estrangement and assault.  More

  By Bénédicte Desrus and Jocelyn Edwards

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  Video

  Dealing with Authority When You Have No Authority: A Brush with Stop-and-Frisk

  November 18, 2013 - 

  Composer and sound artist Matana Roberts shares her brush with the New York police tactic known as “stop-and-frisk,” which civil rights advocates have denounced as a form of racial profiling.  More

  By Laura Hanna

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  Video

  Kuang Kuang: “Where Is My Dream?”

  October 7, 2013 - 

  Pi San’s startlingly violent and uproariously funny video animation depicts the Chinese educational system he passed through during the 1980s, a time when students were only permitted to pursue state-sanctioned dreams.  More

  By Pi San

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  Feature

  Faces From Gitmo

  September 2, 2013 - 

  As a months-long hunger strike persists in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Molly Crabapple’s drawings of seven detainees—one of whom was released last week—challenge us to remember their history and humanity.  More

  By Molly Crabapple

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  Dispatch

  Imagine What It Was Like To Be Me

  August 5, 2013 - 

  In the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal, which has intensified conversations about racial profiling and systemic discrimination, pioneering conceptual artist Adrian Piper presents a faded black-and-white image of Trayvon Martin peering through crosshairs.  More

  By Adrian Piper