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By nesasy • 15 years ago

It’s Not My Place: So How Do I Make It?

Up front, I must apologize for the length of this post. It is a lot of back-story, but I feel that this information is relevant to the question that I pose.

I discovered Feministing recently with StumbleUpon. I have since come back regularly, both on my own and with SU. Coming from an extremely rural background (raised in the deep south, with deeply misogynistic family members and having been of the brainwashed boy-crazy teenager variety myself) I am a fairly recent discoverer of feminism, but feel as though it is something I have been trying my entire life to attach words to the sentiments I see expressed here. This said, I never gave too much thought to how these things applied to my life, personally. I always thought I was fairly tolerant and progressive, considering the background I have been working my whole life to escape (more on that in a moment). Two things have recently changed my mind. They have brought perspective as well as a sense of urgency, particularly to the latter.

1. I am in the position of possibly having to seek an abortion. I am twenty years old, not at all financially stable and have no desire to have children at the moment. I am more alarmed personally at the financial and family consequences of this choice, but I can deal with that. It is not what is keeping me awake.

2. I recently came across an article condemning the sale of ...
By nesasy • 15 years ago

Syrian Women Observatory: (SWO)

- Syrian Women Observatory was lunched in 5/1/2005 as a dialogue project about the Syrian social issues particularly the following axis: woman, children, and disabled people. It focuses on all kinds of violence.
– Observatory adopted the concepts of human rights and citizenship as posed by the processor. The link to these issues is the relationship with development and not a secondary basis
– It resists all kind of violence against women and children, and also it refuses any religious or educational background as an excuse for this violence

- Syrian Women Observatory was lunched in 5/1/2005 as a dialogue project about the Syrian social issues particularly the following axis: woman, children, and disabled people. It focuses on all kinds of violence.
– Observatory adopted the ...