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a creative strategy group that works with nonprofit organizations, philanthropic foundations and storytellers to bring people and resources together to create social change. This is what inspires us — every day.

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This print was created to stand in solidarity with Standing Rock and the movement to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. A couple dozen posters are being sent to the camp along with supplies and the remainder are being sold to raise funds for the Sacred Stone Camp and the legal defense fund. More prints will be sent to the camp as funds are raised.

Please prioritize sending donations directly to the movement. You can donate to the Sacred Stone camp of the Standing Sioux Tribe HERE and to the legal defense fund HERE.

Please sign the petition to stop the DAPL if you have not already HERE.

This poster can be downloaded as a PDF to print and distribute HERE.

This is a 3 layer screen print with letterpress. All posters are hand printed and variations occur. You can buy a print to support Standing Rock’s struggle against the DAPL HERE.

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Timely wisdom on how storytellers help us survive the rough patches of history from Chinua Achebe, born on this day in 1930. 

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Social Science Says: Go Vote!

Millions of Americans will vote for the next U.S. president Tuesday. In case you need the extra encouragement, Tania Lombrozo offers three (more) reasons to vote — courtesy of the social sciences.

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What a great day to vote. -md

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Impressed by these stunning and informative images raising awareness of the negative impact melting ice caps are having on the Philippines, despite being 5,700km from the Arctic Circle. -bb

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The Mental Health Quilt is a collaboration between Tumblr and The City of New York. Each patch of this quilt is a creative expression of someone’s relationship with mental illness—their own, or someone they love. As you add to it, we hope it reduces the stigma surrounding mental and emotional health.

Submit at postitforward.tumblr.com/quiltsubmissions.

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Adding on and passing it along. -SG

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This weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the Black Panthers’ founding. Although they were known to arm citizens to fight against police brutality, “one of the most potent weapons in its outreach was its artwork,” reports the New York Times. See the full article, including reflections from artist Emory Douglas. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/arts/fifty-years-later-black-panthers-art-still-resonates.html  -gn

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"More than thirty years later, it is heartbreaking how Erin Blackwell's story is still relevant to Seattle today." -SG (Photo Credit:Mary Ellen Mark)

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We love this video. Happy #NationalComingOutDay! Check out other impactful social milestones on our LGBTQ Storytelling and Social Change Timeline.

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To egalitarianism!

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We’re loving this #AllyWeek collab we did with @transstudent a few years back. Reblog to show others how to be a better ally!

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I hadn’t seen this and I just love it. -md

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Dan Savage and Terry Miller sparked what would become an international movement with the first #itgetsbetter video, six years ago today. Learn about other impactful milestones in LGBTQ history with our LGBTQ Storytelling and Social Change timeline. -bb

Photo by chrisjtse

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The irreplaceable Oliver Sacks, whom we lost a year ago today, on death, destiny, and the redemptive radiance of a life fully lived. 

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We miss you, Oliver Sacks. - SG

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When Katherine began at NASA, she and her cohorts were known as “human computers,” and if you talk to her or read quotes from throughout her long career, you can see that precision, that humming mind, constantly at work. She is a human computer, indeed, but one with a quick wit, a quiet ambition, and a confidence in her talents that rose above her era and her surroundings.

Magnificent Vanity Fair profile of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, one of science’s trailblazing women. Also see the untold story of the remarkable women who powered space exploration. 

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Can’t wait to see Hidden Figures in 2017. -db

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Target To Install Gender-Neutral Bathrooms In All Of Its Stores

The new investment appears to be a response to conservative uproar.

Target drew praise from LGBT rights advocates in April when it announced it would allow customers to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify. The new single-stall bathrooms, which are by definition gender-neutral, seem meant to assuage the concerns of customers uncomfortable with this policy and will provide a third option for all customers.

But Boylan confirmed that Target continues to welcome transgender individuals to use a bathroom of their choosing.

As a result, the new move can be seen as a deft effort to calm critics without fundamentally altering its policy. In fact, it may even be seen as an expansion of the policy, given that customers who identify as genderqueer may feel most comfortable in a bathroom that allows them to eschew identification with either gender.

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Yes. -md

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Eighty years ago this month, the United States competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, and 18 African-American athletes were part of the U.S. squad.

Track star Jesse Owens, one of the greatest Olympians of all time, won four gold medals. What the 17 other African-American Olympians did in Berlin, though, has largely been forgotten — and so too has their rough return home to racial segregation.

“Determination! That’s what it takes,” one of the athletes, John Woodruff, said during a 1996 oral history interview for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “A lot of fire in the stomach!”

Woodruff won the gold medal in the 800-meter race — and he did it in Adolf Hitler’s Germany.

“There was very definitely a special feeling in winning the gold medal and being a black man,” Woodruff said. “We destroyed his master-race theory whenever we start winning those gold medals.”

Black U.S. Olympians Won In Nazi Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home

Photo: Bettman Archive/Getty Images Caption: At the 1936 Olympics, 18 black athletes went to Berlin as part of the U.S. team. Pictured here are (left to right rear) Dave Albritton, and Cornelius Johnson, high jumpers; Tidye Pickett, a hurdler; Ralph Metcalfe, a sprinter; Jim Clark, a boxer, and Mack Robinson, a sprinter. In front are John Terry, (left) a weight lifter and John Brooks, a long jumper.

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Loving this series showing past inhabitants juxtaposed against current to highlight the impacts of poaching, from conservationist and photographer Nick Brandt. -bb

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I am obsessed with these emojis from Cantor Fine Art gallery in Los Angeles. I hope they become real emojis I can use asap. What fun. -md

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3062524/see-the-greatest-artists-in-the-history-of-the-worldas-emoji/11