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✊💖🐆🌴🌊🌙🌞 Making the revolution irresistible
✏ Using art to make activism accessible Sign up to our monthly e-zine! 🐆🌴

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😍LOOK AT THIS COMMUNITY OF INCREDIBLE FEATURED ARTISTS!!!⁠❤️It's hard to put into words how special it feels to collaborate with such talented people and to provide uplifting, engaging, exquisite art and education.⁠❤️

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View the Amplified Publishing zine created by @shelbyxstudios, featuring prototype videos and exclusive content from the pathfinder! https://t.co/Xf81LZjn6n

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is brilliant. If your employer tweets about #IWD2022, @PayGapApp will tweet the gender pay gap for that company. 😱 This is not going well for a LOT of firms

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6 Months of Art X Activism! - https://t.co/8QPIK3H6jp

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In a society that benefits from our self doubt, exhaustion and division, it's a radical act to keep on feeling love for ourselves and our communities. Most times we don't realise the growth so it's important to take time to acknowledge it and all that you're going through.⁠

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💚💚💚Our recent zine is all about Cannabis! Putting it together made me reflect on everything I've been through and all the ways in which I've grown...⁠BIG LOVE and solidarity to everyone going through it. 💚💚💚
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❤️Through your subscriptions we've been able to collaborate with artists and campaign groups and pay artists as this is a foundational feature of the zine!⁠
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🐆Shelby X Studios is a space to connect with other people who want to create a world with community care at its core.

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We've had an unbelievable response so far, here is what our community is saying.⁠⁠

⁠⁠❤️Your subscriptions and merchandise purchases help us create artwork in solidarity with campaigns and pay artists using their skills for social justice.⁠⁠

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🍁Issue 4:20 of our Digital Zine is LIVE⚡⚡⚡⁠⁠
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❤️We want to say a huge thank you to everyone in our community. It is because of YOU we get to continue making our beautiful e-zine.

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@JazzShaniceArt 's work features in zine Issue 3: Conversations about Digital Activism and explores how digital activism is a powerful tool of modern day activist. ⁠⁠
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Our last Feature Friday spotlighted the pure talent that is @JazzShaniceArt ⚡️ an crazy talented illustrator & designer based in Bristol, UK.⁠⁠ Her practise embodies using illustration to capture stories of people and places, with recent work centred around activism.

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🐆🌴All profits from merchandise goes directly into supporting our art x activism work. Your purchases help us create artwork in solidarity with grassroots campaigns and pay artists using their skills for social justice 🐆🌴
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💥New to our shop!💥 Our exclusive holographic and gold hinged 420 smoking tins- because "It's Always 420 Somewhere". The link to the shop is in the bio

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'Visualising My Pain' an illustration and article created for Issue 4 :20 of the zine which dropped last week. ⁠
Subscribe (the link in our bio) to read all about experiences of chronic pain, campaigning and CBD. ⁠The piece also explores the male gaze, patriarchy and ableism.⁠

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And head over to our blog (link in our bio) to read the featured artist interview where she speaks on climate justice, mental health, her activism and the nuance of social media as a safe space for those of us in the activist sphere. ⁠
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[SHELBY X Studios @shelbyxstudios]

We are catching up with our Feature Fridays. Last week we featured the INCREDIBLE @toritsui a climate activist & organiser who focuses on (environ)mental health.⁠ ⁠⁠
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Sign up to the zine (link in bio) to see what she created for our issue exploring digital activism.⁠⁠

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Grace Kress is the founder of @shelbyxstudios; an online platform that combines art and activism to produce digital zines. Through her research she’ll be exploring the relationships that exist within this space.

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✏️ We are looking for articles and creative commissions for the following issues:⁠⁠⁠
Issue 7: Street Art x Activism
Issue 8: Celebrating George Jackson
Issue 9: Fashion x Activism
Issue 11: Disability x Activism
Issue 13: Sign Painting x Activism
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🔊 Calling all artists and writers... Less than 1 week left to apply for our open call opportunities!!⁠⁠
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⁠⁠⁠Deadline for applications?⁠⁠⁠
5pm on 1st May 2021⁠⁠⁠

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