What's new this week: The contributions of black women in Brazil and Uganda
Today, Lélia Gonzalez would celebrate her 86nd birthday!
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::: Lélia Gonzalez: A Brazilian Thinker
Raquel Barreto looks back on Lélia Gonzalez’s contributions to Black women’s struggles. “We are not born, but rather become, Black. This is a tough, cruel undertaking that continues to develop throughout our lives", said Lelia. Lélia Gonzalez would turn 86 years on this February 1st, 2021. | Read
::: Dignity as Paramount: The Fight Against Transnationals in Uganda
Jean Ngobi, from the World March of Women Uganda, talks about how big international companies are affecting women’s lives in Africa. "When we talk about transnational corporations, we are speaking about those international, multinational and investments companies that affiliate to the African continent and other countries of the Global South. They are the main reason on how Africa is bleeding, how Africa is dealing with losses and specifically how women’s lives are being negatively affected" | Read
...And, since you are here, access also past weeks' content:
::: Hacking the Patriarchy and Building Alternative, Feminist, Community-Based Technologies
"Technology has become less alienating and less patriarchal since women started to engage with it." | Capire interviews Nikole Yanes. Read in english or listen to the podcast in spanish.
::: “Our Language, Our Rights, Our Territories”: The Struggle of Amazigh Women
Watch Balti Zaina, of the Amazigh people, talk about the struggles of women to defend their land and fight the attacks from the Moroccan state | Video
::: Hurricanes, pandemic, debt, violence: the struggles Honduran women wage
"Amid the pandemic and after the natural events Eta and Iota, we, Honduran women, are enduring a precarious situation, but we are starting to wage a new struggle against a history that has invisibilized our rights" | Analysis by Yamileth Gonzáles
::: Women Transforming in a Changing World
Watch the video produced by women in Fındıklı. This episode is the result of this first experience of the World March of Women in Turkey | By Yildiz Temürtürkan
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