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Facilitating Safe Spaces for Womxn in Indonesia
By Theresia Siti, community organiser, IndonesiaĀ  I joined FAMM Indonesia (Young Indonesian Women Activistsā€™ Forum) during their intergenerational meeting and Movement Building Institute (MBI) in 2010. Initially, I received an invitation from the director of…
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The Change is Here: From Words to Voices, From Present to Future
By Vevi Alfi Maghfiroh, young journalist, Indonesia   I was born in Indamayuā€™s coastal region, and for me, my birthplace decides the kind of path that I have to walk on every single day. Since…
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What’s LIBERATION without play?
A riddle:Ā  What is more powerful than power?Ā Ā  As the oceans boil, and the hurricanes beat violently against our shores, and the air sweats with the heat of impending doom, and our fists protest the…
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Learning virtually: the Honduran Feminist Alquimia School in the time of pandemic
To MarĆ­a, Daysi, Laura, Brenda, Paty and Carme, alchemist sisters COVID-19 has disrupted all our lives to levels that we would never have imagined. We traded shared coffee and conversation in our organizationsā€™ safe spaces…
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Obituary for Mabel Moyo & Retelling Stories of Organising in Zimbabwe
We walk in the footsteps of those who came before us. What is your theory of change? But is it value for money? These pesky questions have become the bane of many an activistā€™s life…
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A Week of Reflection & Learning
Surrounded by the tropical warmth and lush vegetation of Nicaragua, the breezes from Lake Managua and the gardens of Cantera refresh us. This historic popular education center created by women is our beautiful home during…
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Searching for the ‘A-ha!’ Moments: A Chat with Pat Made
Fungai Machirori, founder of Her Zimbabwe, sat down with fellow feminist journalist, Pat Made at the JASS Southern Africa Strategic Planning & Review to explore the ins and outs of communications for feminist movement building…
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Alquimia: Creating a community of solidarity and common purpose
What a gathering! I just got back from the JASS leadership course in Nicaragua with some 34 women activists from Mesoamericaā€”that part of the Americas that reaches from Panama all the way up to Mexico…
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What is Theory of Change (TOC) thinking and its added value for social change movements?
Within the past five years ā€œtheory of changeā€ has been promoted and popularized by some of the worldā€™s largest charitable foundations as a way for social change organizations to describe and evaluate their work. Look…
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How and Where Does Change Happen for Women?
Malawian Activists in workshop The reunion with the women we have been working with in Malawi was emotional. Tiwonge, who has been involved since the beginning in 2007, lifted me up in the air as…
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Connect Your Rights!
At APC Women’sNet “Connect Your Rights!” Workshop in Mombasa, Kenya. My mind is literally exploding with concepts and ideas.Iā€™m at the APC Women’sNet “Connect Your Rights!” Workshop in Mombasa. We opened the workshop with a…
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The Voice of Indigenous and Rural Women
Last week JASS Mesoamerica and Sinergia No’j hosted over two dozen indigenous, rural women from all over Central America and Mexico for a communications training in Guatemala City. The training focused on the right to…
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Live Radio Broadcast from Guatemala: Indigenous Women Exercising Their Right to Communicate
Right now I am privileged to be in Guatemala, as part of a team hosting this fabulous gathering of Indigenous women from all over Mesoamerica. Members of JASS and Sinergia NĆ³j will be sharing our…
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The Dangers of One Story
The latest dispatch from Hope Chigudu, this time from the North of Malawi, with Sindi Blose Itā€™s difficult to know people till you meet them in their environment. The workshop situation can present what Chimamanda…
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From Sea Change to Rivers of Change: El Salvador
Building personal and collective empowerment for womenā€™s rights and action  Building on the JASS’ Mar de Cambios (Sea Change) region-wide gathering in July and the accompanying Wings of the Butterfly-sponsored play, Salvadoran Petateras by September had launched Rios de Cambios (Rivers of Change),…
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Our Feminist Ancestors
Last week during the Sea Change Feminist Leadership School, participants created a mural of their ā€œfeminist ancestors,ā€ women who have influences their lives as feminists and as women who cross the line. Many people brought…
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Mar de Cambios Panama
Here we are in Panama — 33 women from Mexico, Central America and the US sharing and deepening our understanding of power and patriarchy with all the passion and creativity that our collective energy and…
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Mar de Cambios
Just a short note from Panama City about Mar de Cambios (July 5-10), where around 40 women from different MesoAmerican countries are discussing about feminism and how the patriarchal power affects ourselves and our society.
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