Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Women's Empowerment'
"No Justice? No Peace!" The Women Absent from Colombia's Peace Talks
by Moira Birss -Colombia- • Yolanda Becerra presenting in the November 2012 Women's Court in the city of Barracabermeja. Photo credit: Lina Mucha. •“No Justice? No Peace!” Never has this chant, which I have heard so often at anti-war rallies,...
Ima Keithel: A Symbol of Women’s Empowerment in Manipur
by Urmila Chanam -India- While the rest of India is fighting for respect and dignity of women, ‘Ima Keithel’ the all women market in Manipur symbolizes women’s empowerment. In this northeastern extreme of India, women enjoy a unique status in...
Balancing the Gender Skew in India: A New Name, A New Beginning?
by Neeta Lal -India- In an innovative bid to fight gender discrimination, Satara district in India’s western state of Maharashtra recently witnessed a minor revolution. Over 285 Indian girls named Nakhushi, ‘unwanted’ in Hindi, by their disenchanted parents were rechristened...
Women Leaders: Africa’s Available Yet Underutilized Resource
by Susan Enuogbope Majekodunmi -USA- My maternal grandfather’s mantra was, “Educate a woman, and you feed and educate her family.” He educated his daughters when Nigerian fathers rarely did. My grandfather was also very interested in my education and often...
Young Women Launch Afghanistan’s First Anti-Street Harassment Campaign
by Holly Kearl -USA- Carrying banners and signs with messages like, “We will not tolerate harassment,” “Islam forbids men from insulting women,” and “I have the right to walk freely in my city,” on July 14, 50 brave women and...
The Price of Education: Sexual Abuse and HIV/AIDS At Zimbabwe’s Universities
by Chumile Jamela -Zimbabwe- Lisa Kunene’s* path to higher learning has been a painful one. A 20-year-old first-year engineering student at one of the top universities in Zimbabwe, she was born to a poor communal farmer in rural Matebeleland South,...
India's Women Find Empowerment in Exotic Dance
by Mandy Van Deven - India - Anyone who has ever sat through the frequent and painstakingly choreographed musical numbers in a Bollywood film can tell you that dance is an integral part of Indian culture. From Bhangra in the...
Stripping Burlesque of Whiteness: Brown Girls Burlesque Take Center Stage
by Mandy Van Deven - India - Known for its bawdy sexual humor, over-the-top characters, and underlying social criticism, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales set the stage for the satirical theatrics which came to be known as burlesque. During its...
Parvati’s Burden: Scratching the Surface of Motherhood in India
by Mandy Van Deven - India - Unlike the abundance of exploration into the many dilemmas of motherhood by feminists in the West, in India the subject is so under-examined that it might as well not even exist. In fact,...
Kenya’s Kazuri Bead Factory Allows Women from Kibera Slum to Build New Lives
by Sarah Wyatt - USA - Years of hardship and backbreaking labor in the riot-stricken slums of Kibera in south Kenya have worn 18 year old Eshe Koome to the bone. A single mother of two, she walked out on...
The Women of Brukman: Revolutionary Spirit in the Wake of Argentina’s Economic Meltdown
by Jessica Mosby - USA - - March 8th - Today we celebrate International Women's Day with our sisters and mothers, aunts and grandmothers, cousins and daughters, and most of all, with our writers, who have become family. On this...
"Wings of the Butterfly": Employing Women’s Art to Shift Modern Paradigms
by María Suárez Toro Costa Rica/Puerto Rico In Costa Rica, a multidisciplinary group of women artists, scientists, activists and academics is producing a musical, Wings of the Butterfly. • Ceramic artwork for "Wings of the Butterfly" by artist, Rebecca Fernández...
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