In June 2018, the streets of Argentina echoed the sound of a common scream: the Emperor has no clothes.
Month: December 2018
Running for your love: Tracing the life of a queer asylum seeker
Meet Muhammad Ali Baashi. He’s eighteen, a Somali teenager working for his family in the village of Barawe some fifty miles from Mogadishu. Muhammad is a lot like most teenagers, and as a teenager often does, Muhammad fell in love. Love is a universal truth, something we feel for our family, our friends, our pets,…
The Case against Female-Oriented Microfinance – Why giving women loans fails to empower them
Western countries have a taste for offering credit, which peaked in the 1980s in the context of the world debt crisis, when conditional loans were used to propagate free market fundamentalism and neoliberal orthodoxy. Since then, ‘credit’ has turned its coat and is working with development, in the form of microfinance. Microfinance is often used…
Case Study: Why is Feminism limited in China?
A year after the #MeToo movement spread on social media with the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations breaking out in The New York Times, it is fair to say that Feminism has been everywhere in the Western hemisphere lately. However, whilst we regularly hear stories from Europe, North America, the Middle East and South Asia…
Brazil and Bolsonaro: The Resistance Will Be Feminist or It Won’t Be.
the 28th of October, Brazil took a radical step towards fascism with the election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of the country. Such event may seem unbelievable, but it is the outcome of an incremental crisis in brazilian politics that started after the mandate of the former President Lula da Silva. A very brief summary…
Editorial: Gender + Politics
Our first challenge: Bringing a closer yet broader lens on the interplay of gender and politics For the first of our monthly themes, we wanted to hit the ground running with a deeply contemporary and debated topic. While a fair amount of publications focus their attention on high visibility debates around this topic, we are…
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