Posts Tagged Delhi anti-rape protest

Mae Jaceira performs at the AWID forum
By Reina Gattuso • 8 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 Reina Gattuso • 8 years ago

WTF of the Day: How Reporting on Rape Can Actually Perpetuate Rape Culture

We know that reporting on sexual violence can increase awareness of the violence so many of us face. But a  recent report written by Joanna Jolly and released by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center demonstrates that it’s not just whether media reports on sexual violence that matters — it’s how.

We know that reporting on sexual violence can increase awareness of the violence so many of us face. But a  recent report written by Joanna Jolly and released by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center ...