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
The Ixpop Collective: Breaking Ground for the Recognition of Indigenous Women’s Rights
Indigenous women have made great strides in the formal recognition of their rights in recent decades, through advances in indigenous rights and in women’s rights. Most of the progress can be directly attributed to the consistent organizing and advocacy of…
Sharing Leadership Sustains Ourselves and Our Movements
In August of 2021, Nubia Casco realized she felt exhausted, spent. The Covid pandemic and strict lockdown measures by the Honduran government had compounded the usual challenges she faced as leader of the Network of Rural Women of Ojojona. To…
“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…
Reflections on a New Era in Honduras
By Delmy Martínez The scene after the 2021 presidential election: There is an air of freedom, and hope for change. The feeling of bonding is everywhere--in the looks, in the smiles, in the dance of the leaves moving to the rhythm…
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…
Our Bodies, Our Land – Join WHRD session at Generation Equality Forum – Paris
From June 30 to July 2, the French Government will host the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) in Paris, organized under the auspices of UN Women to mark the landmark Beijing Women’s Conference over 25 years ago.JASS and Urgent Action Fund-…
