It is hard not to believe we’re in a time of empowerment of those less powerful, and to be swept up in the fervor escalating the world over. In 2011, we witnessed the Arab Spring, the Occupy Wall Street protests and most recently, one of the largest protests of women in Egypt’s long history against the [...]
Cheryl Yanek shares her on-going story of participation in the Occupy Wall Street Movement in New York City.
A rural based Irish experimental filmmaker/ visual artist, Cathy Fitzgerald, reflects on the value of online technologies for the development and visibility of cultural activities in the art and ecology field, sustainability in the wider cultural sector and her own practice.
Kylie Grant writes about the SlutWalk protest movement and the political rhetoric concerning the definition of rape: "Instead of whether or not women should have the right to wear short skirts and not be called sluts, the women involved in the movement started to question the fundamental nature of rape. Can one form of non consensual sex be seen as less serious as others? " Read more
With Emily Davison Day just around the corner (June 4) I wanted to revisit the hot topic of women in politics and explore what the political world holds for women today, nearly a hundred years since the death of an important British figurehead. The struggle for women’s rights has always been a difficult one and [...]
Kylie Grant writes about the global women’s movement and variations in women’s goals concerning equality.
by Lorna Dee Cervantes (delivered 1/19/08, San Francisco, CA) 35 years ago the fog was so thick on the valley floor I couldn’t see my face. I couldn’t see the cars on the road or the bus as it pulled up out of the fog to take me to the east side hospital where, at [...]
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In this podcast, cultural anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse read from her poetry and discusses the narratives of her homeland Haiti, and how she strives to develop new stories in spoken word and performance poetry.
Marina DelVecchio brings up an older text, published in 1971, that introduces readers to ten obscure and famous women circa the 1800′s. Eve Merriam’s Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives depicts the authentic first-person voices of women who "found the will to trudge forward into colleges and acquire degrees that went beyond ‘MPM — Mistress of Pudding Making — and RW — Respectable Wife’" (13).
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