Getting It Right: LGBT women and HIV/AIDS
By Tatenda Muranda, FRIDA Advisor, HOLAAfrica! co-founder and feminist activist Post-colonial Africa has become an exciting space for LGBT activism because of the vast possibilities for change. Within...
View ArticleZahra: No
“…learning to say no is probably one of the most priceless gifts I have to share.” listen to ‘Zahra: No’ on audioBoom “I was a prime candidate for date rape. Prime. I would move his hand when I felt...
View ArticleNatasha Msonza: Expanding safe online spaces for women
“The more we encouraged women to grab the opportunities for self-expression and participation presented by the internet, the more we needed to raise and increase awareness of the associated risks, and...
View ArticleAnaís Córdova Páez: Justicia para Vanessa
“Este es una declaración que nada y nadie nos va a callar. Porque si toquen a una, se toquen a todas. - This is a declaration that nothing and nobody will keep us silent. Because if they touch one of...
View ArticleMichelle: My First Time
listen to ‘Michelle: My First Time’ on audioBoom “It was my first time. It didn’t hurt although I expected it to. I think that helps, doesn’t it? You expect the worst and then it never really meets up...
View ArticleJuliet Katongole: Breaking Out The Fear
“…I really didn’t know where I got the courage, and I talked about our security, health issues…” listen to ‘Juliet Katongole: Breaking Out The Fear’ on audioBoom “I never knew about activism when I...
View ArticleListen to the stories that make up our movement
Personal stories are a powerful tool for social change. Young feminists attending the Young Feminist Convening organized by FRIDA and partners in May 27-29, 2014, in Thailand, learned exactly that and...
View ArticleOutside the Lines of Gender: FearlesslyFRIDA in Indonesia
‘I am as you are.’ It’s begun: #ColoringOutsideTheLines and creating art that is both fierce and fearless! #FearlesslyFRIDA began its global art tour with Transvoice, a young feminist group based out...
View ArticleFRIDA is FIVE! #FRIDAFlies
At the end of 2010, after several meetings organized and supported by the Association of Women’s Rights in Development, the Central American Women’s Fund, and the Global Fund for Women, Amina Doherty...
View ArticleFRIDA Advisor Sarah Soysa on her experience as first #4FRIDA social media...
By Sarah Soysa, FRIDA Advisor For a week in October, I became the first-ever curator for #4FRIDA, a new guest curator project inspired by @sweden and @PeopleOfCanada. Looking at the FRIDA principles...
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