Archive for the ‘Rape’ Category

July 9

Sistren: Jamaican Theatre for Gender Equity

Someone just told me about Sistren, an amazing, transformative theatre company in Jamaica. Sistren stages community theatre productions that reflect socio-economic issues as they relate to gender roles. From their site:
Sistren Theatre Collective (STC) is an independent women’s organization, established in 1977 that has effectively employed the use of artistic expression as a means of [...]

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April 8

Rape by any other name is still rape

So, the president of Afghanistan–after international outcry including a personal talking to from Hillary Clinton—backed down after signing a new family law, which was intended to give the Shia minority their own identity. The law, you’ve probably heard by now, had the potential to strip women of basic (and hard-won) rights, such as leaving the [...]

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