Culture & politics

Protest masks and artist Ai Weiwei

Artist Ai Weiwei printed his artwork on masks in response to the pandemic. The masks are apparently sold on ebay (link unavailable) with proceeds to human rights watch, refugees international and médecins sans frontières.

Selling MAGA masks

Trump campaign to sell masks despite president not wearing one

Fashion & masks

Fashion houses start including masks on catwalk during Paris Fashion Week

Masks for the deaf

Student modified mask to allow mouth to be visible to see expression and words.

Hong Kong politics

Banning face masks as contentious political symbols

Supporting LGBT+ rights in Poland

British Ambassador to Poland wearing rainbow mask.

British Embassy workers wear rainbow masks as opposition to the country's homophobic lawmaking.

Politics of survivalist fashion

New Yorker Jenny Walton made a mask out of a Prada dust bag

Untangling different cultural meanings of masks and what image the wearer seeks to project

Tweets commenting on President of Slovakia's matching facemask

History: 1918 Spanish Flu

Story in Forbes about the Spanish Flu pandemic mask-wearing resistance in San Francisco; also from a collection of ephemera of the 1918 flu - instructions on how to make masks along with how to wear them. The newspaper images from the Galt Museum in Canada.

Images of facemasks from around the world

Collection of photographs put together by the Guardian newspaper and from the LA Times.

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