In the context of global, regional and local advocacy, women’s stories and realities–in particular young women’s and adolescents’ realities– are almost always missing from negotiations and decision-making in the hallways of power. Our experiences are often reduced to keywords, trendy concepts, and wordsmithing in resolutions and agreements. And our challenges, successes and experiences, oversimplified in reports and numbers. Our Lived Realities explores women and young people’s experiences in their own voices, and how those conditions affect their autonomy, sexuality, wellbeing, pleasure and decision-making.
بدأ كل شيء في السابع من ديسمبر عام ٠٢٠٢٠، عندما استيقظنا على ثلاث شهادات مجهلة تتهم مخرجاً سينمائياً بارتكاب أفعال تندرج تحت التحرش والاعتداء الجنسي. حسب الشهادات، تمت هذه الوقائع في منزل المخرج حيث قام بدعوتهن بحجة إجراء اختبارات التمثيل من أجل فيلمه. كنت مازلت مستلقية على فراشي أتصفح الفيسبوك بكسل عندما قفزت في […]
Read the Arabic version here. It all started on December 7 of 2020, when we woke up to 3 anonymous testimonies accusing a film director of committing several acts of sexual harassment and assault. The alleged events took place in his home, where he lured his victims under pretext of running acting auditions for his […]
These stories illustrate the long-lived realities of migrant domestic workers who seek making a living for themselves and their families in Lebanon under the Kafala system.
The lived realities of adolescent girls in Nigeria focus on the impact of resource and livelihood-based conflict between sedentary farmers and nomadic pastoralists.
South-based feminist news, events, analysis and reflections.
