✺ 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
❛ Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle ❜ Meaning : It's foolish to insult anyone that you depend upon for survival. ❊ African Proverbs. Language shapes the world. It relates us to society and with those we share it with. Through language we name the things that we think that we see, our feelings. It creates, and at the same time, represents and teaches because also by using it, we learn what each thing is, how we live together, what we believe to be tru
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