✺ Recommended book ❛ War's Unwomanly Face (Voices of Utopia #1) by Svetlana Alexievich ❜ This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fired
✤ Recommended book. Good and Mad. The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently—and collectively” ( Vanity Fair ). Long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, and before th
ChangerMaker.From Sudan to the Security Council: Sudanese woman lead drive for change. Alaa Salah (born 1996/1997) is a Sudanese student and anti-government protester. She gained world-wide media attention from a picture of her taken during the 2018/2019 Sudanese Revolution by Lana Haroun that went viral in April 2019. The image of Salah has been dubbed as "Woman in White" or "Lady Liberty" of Sudan. As a member of MANSAM, one of the main Sudanese women's networks who s
Unstoppable activism. Across the globe, women’s activists are at the forefront of economic, social and environmental justice movements demanding systemic change. Their voices are unrelenting in calling for equality with no exceptions in any area of life. They remain undaunted even in the face of concerted pushbacks against women’s rights. Increasingly, young women are making the case that their human rights require ending ALL forms of inequality, exclusion and injustice. They