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WOMEN CROSSING THE LINE GALLERY

“Every human being has the capacity to rebel and transgress, to cross the line of oppression, but usually a catalyst is required to invoke and politicize the spirit of rebellion. JASS might not be the catalyst, but it provides the tools that act as a stimulus, an awareness of the need for change…With political awareness, each woman crosses her own line when she is ready to do so (lines of oppression and exploitation, of what is acceptable or what is not)…”

– Hope Chigudu, JASS Co-founder and Southern Africa Advisor

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Stories
Let Our Rivers Flow Freely: Resisting Extractivism in the Philippines

Facing Ongoing Extractivism and Structural Violence in the name of “Development” The Philippines, alongside many other countries in Southeast Asia, has become a battleground for soft power wars between the U.S. and China. Audrey and her ancestors have been intentional collateral of these “development” projects for generations. As a womxn from an Indigenous Peoples community,…

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Refusing to be Silenced: Confronting Injustice in Zimbabwe

A viral call to action  Last year, Malaika – a sex worker activist who is a part of JASS’ feminist circles in Zimbabwe along with other sex worker activists raised concern and challenged police inaction when one of the sex workers was killed. She had joined JASS’ feminist circle – a gathering of women who…

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Pan-African solidarity in the face of attacks on LBTQI

Where is the power? In March 2023, Essy joined JASS’ Feminist Movement Building School (FMBS) in Nairobi, Kenya. As the Executive Director of the Initiative for Equality and Non Discrimination (INEND), Essy began organising around LGBT issues after the post-election violence of 2008. Nearly two decades later, in the wake of multiple African governments re-criminalising…

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