🌍✨ Together, let's mix creativity & activism to heal our world! How can you use your thoughts, words & art for peace? #CreativeActivism #SpiritualHealing #Artivism

https://unumatma.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/fear-is-a-liar/

Art as Resistance Is Getting Louder (And I’m Seeing It Everywhere)— Art as resistance isn’t quiet anymore — it’s stitched, yarnbombed, quilted, and shared, turning creativity into good trouble you can’t unsee. Once you start noticing craftivism, you see it everywhere.

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https://notquitesuperhuman.com/2026/02/23/art-as-resistance-is-getting-louder-and-im-seeing-it-everywhere/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Dreamspace Dispatch — Season 2, Episode 2: Writing While the World Is Burning

https://dreamspacestudio.net/dreamspace-dispatch-season-2-episode-2-writing-while-the-world-is-burning/

Finding Strength in Joyful Resistance Through Art

https://dreamspacestudio.net/finding-strength-in-joyful-resistance-through-art/

The Many Forms of Resistance: Beyond Marches

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Art. Activism. Entrepreneurship. One Conscious Path.

Art is not decoration—it is direction.
Activism is not noise—it is design.
Entrepreneurship is not compromise—it is a conscious tool for change.
This is a personal manifesto for creators who believe purpose and profit can coexist, and creativity can shape a better world.
Cloud 82 | Designed for Depth
By Anshul Bohre
Anshulbohre.com

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When Statues Become Fathers: Creative Street Art on Equal Parenting

What happens when male statues become fathers for a day? A creative campaign in Sweden is challenging traditional norms about parenting roles.

Imagine a bronze statue of a stoic leader, now wearing a bright pink baby sling with a doll nestled inside. On International Men’s Day, November 19th, male statues across Sweden were adorned with baby slings and carriers as part of a unique campaign to spotlight unequal parenting responsibilities.

Traditionally representing power, labor, or other masculine attributes, these statues were reimagined to symbolize fathers as caregivers. The campaign, organized by the think tank Arena Idé, is part of the #kvantitetstidspappan initiative, aimed at encouraging fathers to spend more time with their children and urging employers to play a larger role in enabling this.

Despite Sweden’s globally recognized parental leave policies, significant disparities remain. Swedish fathers take only 30.9% of parental leave days and 38% of sick leave to care for children.

A recent Novus survey, conducted in collaboration with Make Equal, further reveals that expectations around parental leave remain unequal in Swedish workplaces. Through this campaign, Arena Idé hopes to challenge these norms and has proposed an employer bonus for workplaces that encourage an equal division of parental leave.

The statues involved in the campaign—such as Standing Man in Umeå, Det svenska tungsinnet in Malmö, and Hjalmar Branting in Stockholm—were decorated with dolls in baby slings and carriers.

This created a contrast between the statues’ traditional symbolism and the modern role of engaged fathers.

The initiative draws inspiration from the UK-based group The Dad Shift, which earlier this year launched a similar campaign highlighting gaps in Britain’s parental leave policies.

Vilgot Österlund, a statistician at Arena Idé, emphasizes the importance of changing workplace norms: “When discussing gender equality in workplaces, the focus is often on women and the negative consequences of inequality for them. But here, we see that men are also losing out on something invaluable—time with their children. Through the statue campaign, the new statistics, and our proposals, we hope to make this clearer!”

Read more about the campaign and the proposed reforms in the original article by Arena Idé: Link to the original article.

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How do you perceive the use of public art to challenge parenting norms? Can such initiatives drive societal change? We invite you to share your perspectives in the comments below.

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