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4,000-year-old tablets found in Turkey include women’s rights

The Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum trade colony in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri continues to amaze archeologists, with an expert at the dig revealing that tablets citing women’s rights were discovered at the Bronze Age settlement. Excavations at the ancient tumulus site began in 1948. So far, it has been discovered the center was where the written …

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What If We Treated All Consent Like Society Treats Sexual Consent?

Consent around sex is ignored all the time, and it’s not okay. These everyday examples of how we give consent for other things shows just how absurd it is to blame sexual assault survivors or to try to justify rape in any way. Here’s some much-needed perspective on what consent really means. With Love, The …

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Women and Girls Endure Unspeakable Horrors During War and the UN isn’t Doing Enough About it

by Samer Muscati, Researcher, Women’s Rights Division JUBA, South Sudan — In the scorching heat of a refugee camp near Lake Chad, a 17-year-old girl I’ll call “Fatima” told me how her life had been shattered last August, when Boko Haram fighters came into the restaurant where she worked in northern Nigeria and abducted her …

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Activists Illustrated – Women at the Heart of Global Struggles

Latin American Artist María María Acha-Kutscher takes photographs from social and feminist movements and turns them into stunning pop art illustrations By María María Acha-Kutscher / filmsforaction.org Indignadas (Outraged Women) consists of a visual record of participation of women in public protests around the world, including social movements like 15M (Spain), Occupy Wall Street (NYC), …

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Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain and the Gendering of Martyrdom

In the same season we’ve been presented with two different comprehensive documentaries of two of our most iconic and tragic, gone-too-soon figures in recent decades. Brett Morgan’s Montage of Heck depicts the slow unraveling of Kurt Cobain in the preamble to his suicide, Asif Kapadia’s Amydepicts a corollary narrative about Amy Winehouse’s life, and in …

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