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The Forgotten Horror of Ravensbrück, the Nazi Concentration Camp for Women

by Mary McGill – Dec 5 2016 Proposed by Zoe Kokalou Seventy years ago In 1946, a group of female guards stood trial for war crimes committed at an all-women concentration camp. Seventy years on, why does Ravensbrück remain a footnote in history? Seventy-years ago on December 5, 1946, the Hamburg Ravensbrück war crimes trials …

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Don’t Blame White Women For Trump’s Victory, Blame Internalized Misogyny

By ELIZABETH DALEY For so many years as a woman I have tried to breathe without making a sound. I have tried to go unnoticed, because as a woman, that’s the best possible outcome: To walk down the street without being seen. To avoid raising the ire of your bosses by standing up for yourself. …

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Feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls get first dedicated UK show

Two of the Guerrilla Girls pose at a Tate Modern exhibition in 2006. Members of the group wear gorilla masks in public to hide their identities. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian By Mark Brown – Arts correspondent Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned the anonymous group to scrutinise gender diversity at hundreds of European galleries Three …

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WMW AGAINST MILITARIZATION, FUNDAMENTALISM AND VIOLENCE

The rise of militarization, fundamentalism, violence and extreme right groups is more and more obvious and is shaking the life of women and communities all over the world in many different ways.  Religious and cultural fundamentalism keeps spreading terror, death and oppression, and this is feeding the far-right groups that are quickly becoming more and …

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