After completing her first internship at Microsoft, Sasha Ariel was inspired to write a book while still in high-school to encourage girls to be tech savvy. Motivated by her own absorption in the Technology side of STEM, she set about writing the book which took two years. It was her hope that her main character,… Read More Tech Savvy
For over 30 years, Futures Without Violence has been providing groundbreaking programs, policies, and campaigns which empower individuals and organizations working to end violence against women and children around the world. It is a health and social justice nonprofit and its mission is to “heal those among us who are traumatized by violence today – and… Read More VP Kamala Harris’ Message
When Girls Have Access to Technologies, A True Digital Revolution Will Be In Sight – IPS News Today is International Day of the Girl Child and this year’s theme is “Digital generation. Our generation”. What is the digital generation? It is those who were born into or raised in the digital era. They have wide-spread… Read More The Digital Generation
Last night, we watched a documentary on Zohra, Afghanistan’s first all-women orchestra named after the Persian goddess of music and made up of girls and women between the ages of 13-20, from a Kabul orphanage, was created in 2010 as a symbol of freedom from Taliban rule. I was truly inspired by these gifted girls… Read More Silenced, For Now
I’s in the ramshackle cabin, waitin’ for the Master. We meet there every night. It’s far from the big house and nobody can hear us makin’ noises when we havin’ sex. I don’t like givin’ ma self to a man I ain’t married to ‘cause the minister says that anyone who has sex and they… Read More Fenced In
I used to be a prostitute. And then, one night, I met a Catholic priest who changed my life forever. Father Ramirez didn’t preach at me like most religious people do. Instead, he asked me about myself and what got me into prostitution. He sat and listened as I shared my story and not once… Read More Shaniqua’s Story
“Dalit women’s bodies are being used to assert caste supremacy and keep women ‘in their place’,” Jacqui Hunt, Eurasia Director of women’s rights group, Equality Now. According to Equality Now, there is such a thing as intersectional discrimination which makes it more difficult for girls across India and around the world to access justice for… Read More Justice for Dalit Women & Girls
As I watch my daughter playing in the back yard, I think of my sister, Indrani. Twenty years ago, we were forced into marriage when we were teenagers. My husband was twice my age but years later, I was able to divorce him. Indrani wasn’t so lucky. She was murdered in an honor killing for… Read More Vidhya’s Story
“What comes to mind when I say, moon scraped knuckles and knocking knees?” Mats shook his head. “Nothing off the bat. Is it the name of a song, a poem, a movie?” “It’s a name I’m thinking of giving my blog.” “You have a blog?” “Not yet but I’m thinking of creating one on WordPress.”… Read More Abi’s Interest in Blogging
True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together – AZ Quotes Pauli Murray was a civil rights activist, feminist, lawyer, writer, poet and the first woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest, serving for eight… Read More Pauli Murray
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