Posts Tagged freedom

Mae Jaceira performs at the AWID forum
By Reina Gattuso • 7 years ago

Feminist Visions of the Future: Freedom Without Fear

Ed.note: This post is part of a series we’re running this month as part of a media partnership with the Association of Women in Development (AWID) to cover their semi-annual Forum. The 2016 Forum took place earlier this month in Brazil and explored diverse perspectives on “Feminist Futures: Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice” with a focus on voices from the Global South. 

Pakistani feminist Farida Shaheed gives a slogan for azaadi, freedom in Urdu. The whole hall joins in. It is the final plenary of the Association of Women in Development (AWID) conference, on Feminist Visions for the Future, and in asking the room to proclaim this slogan, Shaheed evokes a long history of South Asian feminist organizers’ radical visions ...

Ed.note: This post is part of a series we’re running this month as part of a media partnership with the Association of Women in Development (AWID) to cover their semi-annual Forum. The 2016 Forum took place earlier ...

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By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 8 years ago

Feministing Jamz: Taina Asili’s “Freedom” challenges mass incarceration

Taína Asili is a Puerto Rican vocalist and longtime activist for prisoner justice and against mass incarceration. In her latest music video, she worked with Detroit-based poet Michael Reyes to make a tribute to the movement for black lives, with a shout out to the historical roots of mass incarceration and anti-black racism. 

Taína Asili is a Puerto Rican vocalist and longtime activist for prisoner justice and against mass incarceration. In her latest music video, she worked with Detroit-based poet Michael Reyes to make a tribute to the movement for black lives, ...