Tag: feminism
In Memory of Yanar Mohammed Who Saved Thousands of Women
Yanar Mohammed leading a demonstration in Baghdad on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2017. ©Possibile Film Link copied! The first time I met Yanar Mohammed, […]
Insisting on Life and Freedom: Transnational Feminism Challenging the Culture of Killing
The time for women is now. Not as victims to be protected by the same systems that endanger them, but as the architects of a civilisation organised around care rather than conquest, interdependence and mutuality rather than domination, and justice rather than the management of injustice.
“We Will Fight With All Our Strength:” as Islamists Oust Assad, Women’s Struggle Persists in Syria
So far, the HTS government has not spoken out about the role of women or women’s rights, and there is a general silence on the subject. As women in North and East Syria, we are determined not to take a step back.
A Hidden History and a Feminist Future: Redesigning the Role of Women in Technology
In general, when a field starts to have an economic value, the tendency of the capitalist system is to try to obtain a monopoly over it. And this is one of the major reasons why women were excluded from computer science.
Photo Essay: Womanhood — What Does She Look Like? How Is She Seen?
Globally, myriad forces continue to suppress, harm, and disenfranchise women; but this body of photographic work asks us to acknowledge, honor, and applaud the vital roles women play and to demand ever better equality.
The Gender(ed) Politics of Fascism: How Women Came to Lead the Contemporary Far-Right
Despite apparent misogyny, gender is a nuanced and complicated issue in far-right women leaders’ politics. By drawing on certain aspects of (fascist) femininity these women have played a central role in the normalisation and legitimization of racist misogyny in Europe.
There Is Nothing Natural About Patriarchy: Saini’s New Book Explores How Men Came to Rule
For Saini, a key to understanding patriarchy is seeing it as constantly changing: not just a system that is, but a structure that is shaped and created over and over again.