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ART - Asterix and Obelix "JE SUIS PARIS" #JeSuisParis by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-11-17T04:39:00.000-08:00

"Disney Princesses as Breast Cancer Survivors" by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-10-10T06:23:00.000-07:00

Pink Positive for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

"LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE" by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-08-22T11:03:00.000-07:00

Royal Babies! by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-05-04T04:28:00.000-07:00

Princess Kate Middleton and Prince William, Princess Diana and Prince Charles #RoyalBabies Charlotte Elizabeth Diana

Black Lives Matter "We are all Human" ‪#‎StopRacism‬ by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-04-09T09:40:00.001-07:00

Another black man falls victim

to white cop shooting

#BriefMessage "What kind of man are you?" by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-04-02T02:18:00.001-07:00

What kind of man are you?
Social Awareness Campaign

#MenForWomen
#StopViolenceAgainstWomen

A Brief Message to Fight Violence Against Women

Underwear Campaign Shares Powerful

#BriefMessage About Violence Against Women

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#BriefMessage #MenforWomen by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-04-01T02:02:00.000-07:00

Dear Guys,

become the protagonists of "A Brief Message to fight Violence Against Women" Art Performance by aleXsandro Palombo. Send us NOW your own #BriefMessage at humorchic@gmail.com

ART "Disney Princesses as Acid Attack Survivors" #StopAcidAttack by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-03-10T15:32:00.001-07:00

IDIVA India Times "These Women Have a #BriefMessage for All Men Who Need to Seriously Back Off"

2015-03-10T15:28:00.000-07:00

Don't get your knickers in a twist, because these girls are using theirs to give their two bits to the men who need it. We strongly suggest that every man who thinks he can use his strength and force himself on a woman can back off now. Artist and activist AleXsandro Palombo's social campaign #BriefMessage features a bold breed of women who are not afraid to let their panties do the talking. And we're completely backing them.

Palombo's work has women freely expressing themselves with messages about violence against women. But the #BriefMessage campaign doesn't stop there. Through his blog and social network, the artist has asked women to be the protagonists of his new artistic performance writing their feelings on their panties, their messages against machismo and violence. The answer has been immediate, smart, ironic and amazing!

These girls decided to wear their big girl panties and we are proud of them. Take a look at these images and don't forget to share your #BriefMessage with us.

VIA IDIVA India Times

THE HUFFINGTON POST US "Underwear Campaign Shares Powerful #BriefMessage About Violence Against Women"

2015-03-05T15:16:00.000-08:00

No, these women aren’t getting their panties in a bunch. They’re just getting the world to listen.

Across the globe, more than a third of women have been affected by physical or sexual violence, according to a 2013 WHO report, but those figures may be even higher considering victims’ reluctance to report such crimes.

To speak out against such widespread abuse, advocates are sharing powerful messages written on their underwear –- a campaign that launched in conjunction with Sunday’s International Women’s Day.

The performance piece is the brainchild of aleXsandro Palombo, an artist known for such subversive series as Disney princesses with disabilities and female cartoons depicted as domestic abuse victims.

Palombo put a call out asking women to express their messages against machismo and violence, using the hashtag #BriefMessage.

The campaign falls in line with this year’s theme for Women’s Day, which is focusing on a “the year of action” for gender equality, particularly in the economic realm.

While a lack of data has precluded researchers from quantifying exactly how violence translates into economic losses, experts agree that there is an undeniable connection.

Victims are saddled with medical bills, injuries that could prevent them from working and psychological issues that can affect their productivity, according to the UN.

It’s often the patriarchal systems that are to blame for subjugating women both economically and physically.

One-third of women in 33 developing countries say they can’t refuse sex with their partners, the World Bank reported. Intimate partner violence is more prevalent in impoverished households, but women with stable economic footing are better able to withstand such injustice. Property ownership, for example, helps to amplify a woman’s voice and increase her bargaining power in the household.

Experts say that ending violence against women requires on-the-ground community efforts.

In her recent HuffPost blog, Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, outlined a three-pronged approach to end this epidemic.

Based on experts' reports, Clinton pushed for changing long-held social norms, promoting solutions within the private sector and engaging with the military, universities, economists and other unlikely partners to create strong allies to stand up to violence.

“In order to celebrate and scale the gains, as well as understand where and why the gaps persist, we must continue to share with one another what works and what doesn't,” Clinton wrote. “We must continue to work together and learn together so that we can create dynamic and lasting solutions to end violence against women and girls, in all its forms, both here and around the world.”

VIA THE HUFFINGTON POST

#BriefMessage by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-03-05T04:44:00.000-08:00

Social Awareness Campaign

International Women's Day

#StopViolenceAgainstWomen

A Brief Message Against Violence Against Women

Send us NOW your own #BriefMessage at humorchic@gmail.com we'll post it on aleXsandro Palombo's Blog gallery, you will be the protagonist of his new artistic awareness campaign.

"A Brief Message Against Violence Against Women" Art Performance by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-03-04T02:13:00.000-08:00

Dear Women,
become the protagonists of "A Brief Message Against Violence Against Women" Art Performance by aleXsandro Palombo. Send us NOW your own #BriefMessage at humorchic@gmail.com, we'll post it on aleXsandro Palombo's Blog gallery, you will be the protagonist of his new artistic awareness campaign.

ART - #NEVERAGAIN by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-01-21T04:30:00.000-08:00

"NEVER AGAIN"
Remember Not to Forget
#Shoah #Holocaust
"70th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation"

Anne Frank, Homer, Marge, Bart,

Lisa and Maggie Simpson

by aleXsandro Palombo

#NousSommesCharlie #CharlieHebdo by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-01-10T17:11:00.001-08:00

#Freedom #CharlieHebdo by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-01-09T10:03:00.001-08:00

#PENCIL #CHARLIEHEBDO "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-01-08T08:45:00.001-08:00

"Pencil is stronger than anything,

Pencil is Freedom"

aleXsandro Palombo

#FREEDOM - Stéphane Charbonnier "Charlie is not dead" by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-01-07T11:57:00.000-08:00

ART - Alexis Tsipras "#NoGreeceAusterity" by aleXsandro Palombo

2015-01-05T01:23:00.000-08:00

PRESS NEWS - LE FIGARO "Les Simpson parodiés pour dénoncer les violences policières aux États-Unis"

2014-12-30T16:31:00.000-08:00

L'illustrateur italien aleXsandro Palombo a souhaité rendre hommage aux victimes de violences policières en noircissant des personnages de la série d'animation.

La série Les Simpson serait-elle une source d'inspiration pour l'artiste aleXsandro Palombo? Après avoir habillé Marge des robes légendaires de l'histoire de la mode et l'avoir ensuite transformée en femme fatale vêtue de latex, l'illustrateur italien a décidé de rendre hommage à Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown et toutes les autres victimes de violences policières en noircissant plusieurs personnages de la série d'animation créée par Matt Groening.

Intitulée I can't breathe ( «Je ne peux pas respirer») en référence aux derniers mots d'Eric Garner, mort étouffé par un policier qui procédait à son arrestation en juillet dernier et devenus le slogan des milliers de manifestants, la série de dessins met en scène Homer et sa famille dans des situations qui ne sont pas sans rappeler les différents événements qui ont récemment secoué les États-Unis.

«Avec cette série de dessins, je voulais dénoncer la situation sociale actuelle et les faits raciaux incroyables de ces derniers temps. Les images de l'étouffement d'Eric Garner sont horribles et non civilisées. C'est une folle et une inacceptable violence. Nous vivons une régression sociale dangereuse et si l'Amérique ne réagit pas à ce racisme rampant, il ne sera plus le pays de la liberté et des rêves, mais le pays de l'oppression et de l'injustice», a déclaré aleXsandro Palombo à Mail Online.

VIA LE FIGARO

PRESS NEWS - THEGRIO "Artist imagines the Simpsons joining the “I can’t breathe” protests"

2014-12-16T15:58:00.000-08:00

After months of heightened racial tensions, an artist has created images of the Simpsons joining the protests in memory of those who have died.

In Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo’s series called “I Can’t Breathe,” the iconic yellow cartoon family is turned black — with Bart Simpson seen experiencing the same tragedies as Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and all the other victims.

Mr Palombo recently told MailOnline:

With this art series I wanted to denounce the current social situation, the unbelievable racial facts of recent times. The images from the suffocation of Eric Garner are horrible, uncivilized. This is a crazy and an unacceptable violence. We are experiencing a dangerous social regression and if America does not react to the rampant racism it will no longer be the country of freedom and dreams, but the country of oppression and injustice.

The images are shocking yet also dishearteningly accurate as Chief Wiggums re-enacts the behavior that several officers in these excessive force cases have been accused of.

You can view the depictions for yourself in the gallery above.

VIA THEGRIO

PRESS NEWS - DAILYMAIL "Now the Simpsons can’t breathe"

2014-12-15T08:36:00.000-08:00

Now the Simpsons can’t breathe: Artist imagines the cartoon family protesting America’s race shootings

In a series called 'I Can't Breathe', Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo has turned the yellow cartoon family black

Reflecting the death of Tamir Rice, Chief Wiggum aims a gun at Bart, who is clearly holding a toy gun, at point-blank range

Another echoes the death of Eric Garner with the police holding a black cartoon character in a chokehold

The artist told MailOnline he created the series in memory of the victims, adding: 'I wanted to denounce the current social situation, the unbelievable racial facts of recent times'

America's race shootings have led to months of unrest across the country - but now an artist has imagined the Simpsons protesting in memory of the victims.

In a series called 'I Can't Breathe', Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo has turned the usually yellow cartoon family black in memory of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and all the other victims.

In a series of shocking images, Chief Wiggum chases Bart waving a baton, then aims a gun at the ten-year-old, who is clearly holding a toy gun, at point-blank range.

Bart is then pictured face down and apparently dead in front of a giant billboard showing the police chief with a smoking gun and the words: 'Cops Never Sleep'.

The pictures eerily reflect the death of Tamar Rice last month, a 12-year-old who was playing with a pellet gun last month.

He was shot by a Cleveland police officer at a park on November 22 and died the following day.

Mr Palombo also echoes the death of Eric Garner - with Chief Wiggum depicted holding a black character in a chokehold and then appears on the news alongside presenter Kent Brockman discussing the incident.

Mr Garner died in Staten Island, New York, when officer Daniel Pantaleo put him in an apparent chokehold, despite reports he had said: 'I can't breathe' - words which have now become a prominent feature in protests.

Mr Palombo told MailOnline: 'With this art series I wanted to denounce the current social situation, the unbelievable racial facts of recent times.

'The images from the suffocation of Eric Garner are horrible, uncivilized. This is a crazy and an unacceptable violence.'

He added: 'We are experiencing a dangerous social regression and if America does not react to the rampant racism it will no longer be the country of freedom and dreams, but the country of oppression and injustice.'

Other pictures show Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and a whole host of characters from the show are seen waving placards to 'stop racism' - reflecting the chaos that engulfed Ferguson, Missouri after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

The family also pose in front of the Statue of Liberty, whose face is covered with a Ku Klux Klan hood, with their mouths covered.

Mr Palombo is well-known for his satirical artwork to promote causes he believes.

Last month, he depicted demale cartoon characters as victims of domestic violence to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and also re-imagined Disney princesses as breast cancer survivors to promote awareness of the disease.

VIA DAILYMAIL

ART - The Simpsons against racism "I CAN'T BREATHE" by aleXsandro Palombo

2014-12-15T00:18:00.000-08:00

"I CAN'T BREATHE"

by aleXsandro Palombo

In memory of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Taryvon Martin, Michael Brown and all the victims.

With Homer and Marge Simpson, Bart Simpson, Clancy Winchester, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Kent Brockman.

ART - "HELLO BOYS" by aleXsandro Palombo

2014-11-29T11:15:00.001-08:00

Disney Princes go naked against AIDS

by aleXsandro Palombo

BRASILPOST The Huffington Post Brasil "Interview with aleXsandro Palombo"

2014-11-25T15:04:00.000-08:00

'Covarde', nova série do cartunista aleXsandro Palombo, repudia a violência contra as mulheres

Neste Dia Internacional da Não Violência contra a Mulher, celebrado nesta terça-feira (25), o cartunista e ativista italiano aleXsandro Palombo apresenta a sua nova série de peças intitulada "Coward" (Covarde, em português).

É a segunda vez que ele trata do tema, depois da mostra "Sem violência contra as mulheres", em que usa personagens de desenhos animados e princesas da Disney para denunciar o problema.

Em entrevista ao Brasil Post, Palombo explica por que o universo feminino é recorrente em seus trabalhos — já que, além de violência contra as mulheres, desenhouos efeitos do câncer de mama e a superação de mulheres com deficiência.

"Acredito que o dever de cada um de nós é se engajar diariamente para melhorar nossa sociedade", opina Palombo. "Acima de tudo, devemos fazer cada vez mais pela igualdade de gêneros."

Leia a íntegra da entrevista e veja as imagens:

Brasil Post: Palombo, por que você sempre usa personagens de desenho animado e princesas da Disney no seu trabalho?

aleXsandro Palombo: Eu uso personagens de desenho porque elas acompanharam cada um de nós no passado e ainda pertencem à nossa cultura pop contemporânea. Eu as transformo para contar novas histórias, para trazê-las mais perto da realidade em que vivemos.

Você acha que a comunicação de assuntos delicados, como violência contra a mulher e câncer de mama, é mais efetiva por meio desse tipo de representação?

Minha arte é satírica ao mesmo tempo que reflexiva. Minhas obras são como um espelho, a expressão cultural da sociedade. Tento explorar o direito à expressão, liberdade e igualdade. O culto à celebridade é uma parte importante do meu trabalho, mas também foco em aspectos sociais.

Assim, você cria uma linguagem artística própria...

Eu misturo cor, personagens de cartoons icônicos, sarcasmo, humor, realismo e surrealismo. Eu tento entreter e fazer as pessoas refletirem ao mesmo tempo.

Geralmente, como são as reações ao seu trabalho? Você ouve muitas críticas devido ao uso de cartoons para retratar situações dramáticas?

Alguns amam, outros desprezam — como deve ser. Arte é um ato poderoso que causa reações positivas e negativas. Como artista, eu apenas escuto os meus instintos. Crio com liberdade total. Sou um grande fã de críticas e as aprecio de fato.

Por que o seu interesse especial em temas relativos ao universo feminino, tais como os direitos das mulheres e a violência contra elas, tão recorrentes em sua obra?

Estou sempre na linha de frente da defesa dos direitos humanos. Acredito que o dever de cada um de nós é se engajar diariamente para melhorar nossa sociedade. Acima de tudo, devemos fazer cada vez mais pela igualdade de gêneros.

Qual é sua proposta com "Coward"?

Em março deste ano, fiz uma série contra a violência doméstica. Recebi muitos e-mails de homens ao redor do mundo insultando minhas obras. Vários diziam que eu deveria fazer uma série com as verdadeiras vítimas: homens agredidos por mulheres.

Que absurdo...

Sim, essas mensagens me fizeram perceber como tem homens violentos no mundo. Todo ano, milhares de mulheres morrem por causa desses caras nojentos. Na Itália, a cada dois dias, uma mulher morre nas mãos de um homem. Isso é desprezível e inaceitável. Pensei que deveria criar uma série de obras de arte mais diretas, algo que falaria o quão covarde esses homens são! Devemos punir esses covardes.

VIA BRASILPOST

PRESS NEWS - DAILYMAIL "Snow White's black eye, Ariel's bruises and Cinderella's tears: Disney princesses re-imagined as domestic abuse victims to highlight violence against women"

2014-11-24T06:46:00.000-08:00

- The cartoons are the work of Italian artist, aleXsandro Palombo

- Mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
- Shows battered Disney princesses with black eyes and bloody lips
- Marge Simpson and Olive Oyl also reimagined as domestic abuse victims

With painful looking black eyes and blood dripping from their noses, these cartoons show iconic animated characters shockingly reimagined as victims of domestic violence.

Disney princesses such as The Little Mermaid's Ariel and Snow White feature in the collection, as do TV favourites including Marge Simpson and Olive Oyl.

Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which takes place on the 25th November, AleXsandro Palombo, a contemporary artist and activist, decided to create the striking art to raise awareness.

Calling the collection 'Coward' Palombo depicts each woman holding a picture of their partner with the word stamped across his head in red.

Run by the United Nations, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women marks 16 days of activism, culminating on December 10 - Human Rights Day.

According to the UN, 35 per cent of women and girls globally experience some form of physical and or sexual violence in their lifetime with up to seven in 10 women facing this abuse in some countries.

Famous for his striking and satirical art, Palombo has used characters from popular children's cartoons to highlight domestic abuse on previous occasions.

He said of the current campaign: 'Thousands of women are killed every year all over the world. Femicide is an unacceptable social issue.

'As a man, I feel ashamed of the behaviours of those who use violence against women. These beings are not men but cowards.

'It's up to real men to persecute and fight these cowards'

The UN are encouraging people to 'Orange YOUR Neighbourhood' to support the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

The website urges: 'Reach out to your neighbours, local stores, food-sellers on the corner of your street, gas stations, local cinemas, barbers, schools, libraries and post offices! Project orange lights and hang orange flags onto local landmarks, tie orange ribbons where you are allowed, and organize local ‘orange marches’ on 25 November to raise awareness about violence against women and discuss solutions that would work for your community.'

DATE WITH MEANING

The 25th of November was the date chosen for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the Mirabal sisters.

They were three political activists from the Dominican Republic, who were brutally assassinated in 1960 during the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship (1930-1961)

VIA DAILYMAIL