Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has been posting countless images on his Instagram where people from all over the world are doing a particular pose where they clutch their thigh and point their foot forward, as if it were a gun.
This pose originated from ‘Red Detachment of Women’, a Communist-era ballet based on the stories of female Red Army soldier.
Toting this action as “hand-held guns”, Ai could be making these social media waves as a subtle commentary on school shootings in the USA, or as a reminder of the recently passed 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
View more of these pictures at Ai Weiwei’s Instagram.
[via Quartz]