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Women Circles for Development in Uganda

Practitioner:
Women And Children’s Empowerment Network in Africa

Date:
Jan 24 2015

WACENA, was established in the year 2008 by a number of concerned mothers together with women students from Makerere University Kampala with a purpose of addressing and alleviating the acute and long-term consequences of violence against the women and children…

Art+Feminsim Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Practitioner:
Art+Feminism

Date:
Jan 24 2015

On February 1st, 2014, approximately 600 participants, convened in 31 locations in six countries to edit Wikipedia articles on women and the arts. During this day, at least 101 new articles were created, and at least 90 articles improved. The…

#YesAllWomen

Practitioner:
#YesAllWomen

Date:
Jan 24 2015

In May, the horrific mass shooting in Isla Vista, CA, triggered national conversations about violent misogyny. After some Twitter users began using the hashtag #NotAllMen to defensively derail the conversation, the hugely popular hashtag #YesAllWomen emerged, getting tweeted over 1…

India’s new comic ‘super hero’: Priya, the rape survivor

Practitioner:
Ram Devineni

Date:
Jan 24 2015

A new comic book with a female rape survivor as its “super hero” has been launched to focus attention on the problem of sexual violence in India. Priya’s Shakti, inspired by Hindu mythological tales, tells the story of Priya, a…

How Nina Simone turned the movement into music

Practitioner:
Nina Simone

Date:
Jan 24 2015

My skin is black,” the first woman’s story begins, “my arms are long.” And, to a slow and steady beat, “my hair is woolly, my back is strong.” Singing in a club in Holland, in 1965, Nina Simone introduced a…

The Monument Quilt

Practitioner:
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture

Date:
Jan 24 2015

The Monument Quilt is an on-going collection of stories of survivors of rape and abuse. By stitching our stories together, we are creating and demanding public space to heal. We are building a new culture where survivors are publicly supported…

Pro-Choice Trolling

Practitioner:
Jasmine Shea, Nathaniel Peck

Date:
Jan 24 2015

Fun Craft Idea: Pro-Choice Trolling in Hobby Lobby Aisles Jezebel By Callie Beusman Hobby Lobby is a large corporation-person whose interests include crafting, God and denying women affordable contraception access. If you’re miffed that this chain retailer is a more…

#BringBackOurGirls

Practitioner:
Social Media Users Worldwide

Date:
Jan 24 2015

On April 15 in northern Nigeria, 200 school girls aged 15-18 were kidnapped by an extremist Muslim group called Boko Haram, whose name in the Hausa language means “Western education is a sin.” In hopes of viral pressure on Nigerian…

Performance Art Feminism in Beijing

Practitioner:
Xiao Yue

Date:
Jan 24 2015

Xiao has organized and participated in a series of activities that combine performance art with a strong social message. Despite a well-known Chinese maxim expounding that women “hold up half the sky,” feminism has largely been an underground movement in…

Art in Exile: Women Without Men

Practitioner:
Shirin Neshat

Date:
Jan 24 2015

For third world artists who are forced into exile, the creativity process could be greatly challenged due to displacement in language, community and history. Many filmmakers in exile tend to look at their connection to the homeland in strictly political…