FEATURES
“A FEW YEARS AGO PROVIDING A COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL EDUCATION WAS LIKE YOU WERE SEEN AS ‘THE ONE THAT TALKS ABOUT SEX'”, SAYS ARGENTINE FEMINIST CELESTE MAC DOUGALL.
“On the one hand, I like the term ‘green wave’ because the tide comes, and it sweeps you in. But it also comes and goes, and this movement is here to stay, and it is not that it comes and goes like the tide,” reflects Mac Dougall.
FEATURES
TACKLING UGANDA’S PERIOD POVERTY ONE SANITARY PAD AT A TIME
Girls in Uganda often miss school when they are menstruating – the average is one to three days per month. Like Pauline, many feel ashamed due to the stigma attached to periods in Uganda.
PODCAST
NY Times Political Reporter Dionne Searcey Discusses Her New Book: “In Pursuit of Disobedient Women”
Now a political reporter for the New York Times, from 2015 to 2019 Dionne Searcey was the paper’s West Africa bureau chief and covered a range of economical, social, an political issues on the continent and their impact on women.
SPOTLIGHTS
LIST OF ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES FOR KIDS AND ADULTS
As we, as a society, continue to learn, listen and speak out against racism, here is an updated list of resources: books, films, documentaries and more for kids and adults.
MONTREAL: CONFRONTING THE SEXIST CITY
Kathryn Travers from Safer Cities discusses how women activists made Montreal a safer and more inclusive city.
IN CONVERSATION WITH
MEET MARGARET "MEG" CRANE: THE "SILENT" REVOLUTIONARY
Meg invented the first home pregnancy kit that allows women to quickly know whether they are pregnant or not and seek medical care or an abortion, sold the rights for $1 dollar and continued to work as a publicist.