Power Up! Annual Report 2021
Despite a turbulent 2021, women made some big moves. Learn about how Power Up! supported women's organizing and strategies for transformative change. Power Up! Annual Report 2021</a
“Seeding by Ceding”
JASS is excited to announce that we have been awarded a one-time unrestricted gift by author and philanthropist, Mackenzie Scott. This substantive contribution comes at a crucial time in the world when philanthropy needs to be ambitious, imaginative, and expansive…
Caution: Women are crossing the line
Strong women ’bout to walk across the line // This ain’t no once upon a time // These stories we ’bout to write are true // Sweat n’ bleed for the rights of me n’ you In Ukraine and…
In solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community of Kakuma camp
In the early hours of March 15 2021, two ‘houses’ occupied by LGBTQ+ human rights defenders were torched in Kakuma Block 13, a refugee camp in Kenya, leaving 2 LGBTQ+ members of the community with 2nd-degree burns. The police and…
Together We Can: Power Up! Baseline Report (2021)
Women in Power Up! countries and regions are living in a time of precarity that severely limits their ability to access their rights and places them at risk. This baseline report has been prepared on behalf of the Power Up!…
We need to imagine and build something different – together
As we end another turbulent year, we mourn the recent loss of bell hooks. Her writings, which explore the intersecting oppressions of gender, race, and class – in addition to her recognition that art, history, sexuality, psychology, spirituality, and love…
We play, we express ourselves, we accompany each other: a playbook for playing and getting along with each other
JASS Mesoamerica’s playbook is full of exercises for centering play as part of wellbeing and care
JASS Annual Report 2020
When the pandemic hit, JASS started where we always have - with women’s lives and needs - which allowed us to strengthen and sustain their organizing in crisis. We are proud of how JASS in a moment of fundamental leadership…
The Pandemic: Women Lead Responses
Women are stepping into this moment of crisis with great resolve, creativity, and resilience. While the multiple roles women play as caregivers, workers, and organizers make them more vulnerable, it also enables women to be critical first responders. Not only…
