patriarchy

Why am I a Feminist?

Like most Cambodian women, journalist Chantrea Koeut-Urgell knows how it feels to face gender inequality. Chantrea shares her experiences of growing up in a patriarchal society that considered women weak and their reputations easily stained. She shares her powerful story from childhood trauma to sexual harassment she’s faced at work.

Topic:

Empowerment, Feminism

Keywords:

patriarchy

The Politics of K-Pop

Written by Lina Han

Topic:

Gender equality

Keywords:

arts for social justice, heart mind body, patriarchy, social justice, youth

Day 14: #16DaysofActivism

Today, JASS honors the Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders Initiative, a political alliance that strengthens and mobilizes women human rights defenders in the volatile and increasingly violent contexts of Mesoamerica.

Topic:

Alliance-building, Feminist movement-building, Feminist popular education

Keywords:

collective power, domestic violence, grassroots movements, indigenous, patriarchy

Notes on the Just Transition Framework from the JASS Experience

See how we imagined and adapted Movement Generation’s innovative framework for organizing toward a regenerative economy by drawing on gender justice and feminist organizing in Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia, and Southern Africa.

Topic:

Economic justice, Feminism, Women human rights defenders

Keywords:

grassroots movements, knowledge production, neoliberalism, patriarchy, social change

Upcoming Zimbabwe Elections, Wiztech, and Feminist Politricks

Dudziro Nhengu gives us a glimpse of life in Harare as elections approach and shares insights on the contradictions and complexities of (women's) resistance in a challenging, often violent and repressive context.

Topic:

Feminism, Violence, Women’s human rights

Keywords:

militarization, oppression, patriarchy, political participation, women's power

The Fairy Tales Patriarchy Tells Us

In this blog, Maggie Mapondera confronts some of the dangerous and disturbing myths and fairy tales that fuel the engines of a world driven by patriarchy and inequality, and a society that condones and perpetuates violence against women.

Topic:

Sex & sexuality, Violence, Women’s human rights

Keywords:

violence against women, patriarchy

Demolishing the Master's House

“When a woman goes to a police station to report domestic violence in Malaysia, the police ask questions such as ‘how many children do you have?’ or ‘do you love your husband?’ Then she is told to go back home,” says Manohara Subramaniam of JASS Southeast Asia. This situation is so familiar. It happens in Malaysia, in all countries of Southeast Asia and in many places across the globe.

Topic:

Feminist movement-building, Feminist popular education, Power analysis

Keywords:

domestic violence, patriarchy

Young Zambian Women Tackle Patriarchy, Power & Sex

Patriarchy. Power. Sex.

Topic:

Empowerment, Feminism, Young Women

Keywords:

patriarchy

Feminist Movement Builders' Dictionary

Although originally created in order to develop a common language, and history within the JASS community, we quickly realized the dictionary's potential as a vehicle for the political act of defining our world based on a distinct feminist perspective - one that recognizes how distortions in social, economic, and political power form the basis of inequality and justice.

Topic:

Feminism, Feminist popular education, Power analysis

Keywords:

patriarchy, resistance