Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, Egypt, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, in solidarity, Irom, no protest law, Sallam, Satchidanandan, Seif, Sharmila, Sherman, Zandi
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More than a year ago I heard one of India’s most powerful activist poets, K Satchidanandan, recite a poem he had written for Indian activist Irom Sharmila. Sharmila has been on hunger strike for the last fourteen years in protest against the brutal Armed Forces Special Powers Laws. Similar to you -and others like you, in Palestine, […]
Saturday, December 6th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Abdelaal, Activism, Doaa, freedom, goal, in solidarity, ultimate, Yara Sallam
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By Doaa Abdelaal 9th November, 2014 Life is so strange most of the time. It is the 9th of November again… for those who can remember, it was on this same 9th day of November, at night, when the Berlin wall started falling. I was 13 years then, watching it on the screen of our […]
Friday, December 5th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Egypt, Emam, Fatma, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, freedom, in solidarity, NAZRA, no protest law, our, right, Sallam, Yara
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by Fatma Emam In my country, we are witnessing the backlash of an incomplete revolution. We are suffering at the hands of a military junta and the Islamists who stole our dreams. In spite of this, we go on in the heat of solidarity and the power of our passion. I want to confess […]
Thursday, December 4th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, Banya, Egypt, fight, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, in solidarity, Moiyattu, no protest law, protest, women, Women Human Rights Defenders
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Sometimes, the women who fight for us, need other women to fight for them. I wondered what it must be like to be buying water to quench your thirst and your entire world changed. The news articles stated that you were buying water when you were arrested. I wondered what made you step out […]
Monday, December 1st, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, African feminist, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, Horn, in solidarity, Jessica, meditation, movements, seven
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by Jessica Horn I Mtu ni watu. A person is people. Or maybe a person is not a person without other people. By defending other people you become a person. But what if that person is a woman who speaks luminous truths to dictatorial power? What if she is a woman that breathes the words […]
Saturday, November 29th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, celebrate, Free Sanaa, Free Yara, in solidarity, Juah, Liberia Association of Writers, Patrice Juah, poetry, women
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By Patrice Juah For so long, we were torn apart Our voices were buried in the cold dark earth, Our songs were cries and our rain, tears. We were silenced and banned from speaking our truths. Hate towards each other burdened us, as fear crippled us. We were blinded by lies that tore our […]
Saturday, November 29th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, Bernedette Muthien, in solidarity, KhoeSan, Muthien, poetry, sistahood, Women's Circle
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sistahood i wanted to offer you raw liver from my side but instead will share with you the vegetarian delight of storing sunlight in my soul radiating energy that draws moths to flame white hot air propels a plane through spirals of time where deadlines is not an oxymoron how cosmetic on few pigment can […]
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, defenders, domestic violence, FreeYara, human rights, in solidarity, no protest law, women
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Ways to Start Time: Counting Down with Women Human Rights Defenders in Africa by Alexis Teyie I once thought longing loose: Longing for peace, it’s not criminal. It is not imprecise. It can only be crisp. More brittle than the yellowing pages of an old book, A book we have read and re-read, Whose faded […]
Monday, November 24th, 2014 |
Tags: 16 days, Activism, African, domestic violence, Feminist, in solidarity, Sanaa Seif, voices, women, Yara Sallam
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This year, in recognition of 16 Days of Activism, the African Feminist Forum will be sharing a series of opinion pieces, letters, poems, prayers, and words of solidarity to our sisters struggling daily to defend the rights of African women. Over the next 16 days we will feature contributions from African feminists from across the […]
