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Brazil – five years without Marielle Franco

On 14 March 2018, Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro councillor, human rights defender and particularly for the rights of black women and sexual diversities, was assassinated. After five years, there are no responses, no perpetrators, no justice. As an…

Malcolm X: His Struggle Continues

Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago, on February 21st, 1965, standing at the podium before a crowd in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, and his four daughters, aged 6, 4, 2 and five months,…

Celebrating International Mother’s Language Day, Highlighting Multilingualism, Part 2

by Avryl Claire Macaranas, Angela Mariz Ibon with Jasmine Bermudez, Angela Magsipoc, and Nikki Rosales In line with the 24th annual celebration of International Mother Language Day (IMLD), English major freshmen students at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines-San Juan (PUPSJ)…

National Congress of Medical Ethics and Deontology in Seville How does it affect us, women?

Feminists of the South This weekend the elites of the medical-health profession met in Seville to address “the future challenges and new paradigms of the new medical ethics and deontology” that will be embodied in a new Code of Ethics…

Let’s talk about reconciliation: What good has the Argentina-UK enmity over the Falklands done us?

One evening in November 2019, I went to a bar with some British classmates. Of course, as the only international student, one of them asked where I was from. After hearing ‘Argentina’, something snapped within her brain and automatically asked:…

Newly Obtained Documents Detail U.S. Government Officials’ Racist Views of Black Migrants

ICE officials treated deportation as sport U.S. government officials expressed racist attitudes toward Black migrants, treated their deportation as sport, and dismissed reports of abuse, internal documents obtained by advocacy and activist groups through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)…

Behold, the New GOP Culture Wars

The Republican Party’s latest wave of attacks against anyone who threatens the white supremacist patriarchy is couched in false concern for health and well-being. By Sonali Kolhatkar Republicans are resorting to their age-old tactic of manufactured moral outrage to distract…

Chile: Feminist organisations express mistrust and vigilance towards the new constituent process: They consider its design to be anti-democratic and exclusionary

From the Coordinadora Feminista Punta Arenas, Elisa Giustinianovich, stated that there is a broad majority that has expressed its opposition to the so-called Agreement for Chile agreed by the traditional parties represented in Congress, which has led to a position…

Balamos: An experiential and photographic journey

Balamos in the Roma dialect is defined as anyone who is not a gypsy. This was what they called me when I started to approach and photograph these people, I was a balamos or in other words, a stranger to…

Neurodiverse People, Do they have access to employment?

What do we mean by neurodiverse people? A concept that is increasingly heard and used. In general, it refers to people diagnosed with autism, Asperger’s, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and Tourette’s syndrome, among other conditions. By Andrea Zondek Darmstadter…

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