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March 8 Interviews: Activist, HeJin Kim, on Culture & Cisgender Privilege

“It is important to understand the diversity within what we call ‘women’ and the fact that we all need to be reflective of any exclusion, whether intentional or unintentional.” – HeJin Kim, on cisgender prejudice amongst feminist movements. Interview By...

IDAHO January 30, 2015

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March 8 Interviews: Brazil’s Sonia Corrêa on Sexual/Gender Rights

Republishing for International Women’s Day 2014 (Originally published for March 8, 2013) Interview by Claire House I met and talked with Sonia in the offices of ABIA (the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association) in Rio de Janeiro. The ABIA offices also...

IDAHO January 30, 2015

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March 8 Interviews: Filmmaker Mariel Maciá, on Queer/Feminist Film

‘I think you cannot fight against the people that you should work together with. The fights between the movements are just feeding the system and make it stronger. If we are fighting each other all the time, then the system...

IDAHO January 30, 2015

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March 8 Interviews: Snapshots from Egypt, Switzerland, Japan & Armenia

As part our coverage on International Women’s Day 2014, we asked feminist activists in different countries to express their opinions, experiences and outlooks, in honour of March 8. Photo: Milena Abrahamyan, contributor from Armenia & NYC Egypt “Egypt, as a...

IDAHO January 30, 2015

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I know better who I am and where my place is!

“Feminism matters because as a lesbian I can't afford to ignore multiple axis of discrimination. It matters because our society still ignores the right of every woman to decide for herself and to act accordingly. When I was 5, one...

IDAHO May 3, 2014

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Discrimination of one group is the responsibility of all of us

"Feminism matters because my gender still determines the size of my paycheck and because I cannot decide about my own body and when (or whether) to have children freely, safely and legally. Feminism matters because my gender identity and my...

IDAHO April 22, 2014

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Feminism means connecting with lesbians and other women in solidarity

"Feminism matters because …it is the ground I stand on to desire and act toward the world without discrimination of all types. In everyday life it means to connect with lesbians and other women in solidarity and actions smashing patriarchy...

IDAHO April 22, 2014

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Feminism gave me the words and inspiration

"Feminism matters! In 1998, my first class in Gender Studies at the University of Amsterdam changed my life. I was 21 and finally I got to understand power relations and patriarchy on a theoretical level. Until then, feminism was only...

IDAHO April 22, 2014

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Feminism is the core to how we can confront inequalities

"Feminism matters because it’s the core to how we can confront growing inequalities facing Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender persons. We are challenged by poverty, violent attacks, hate speech and systemic exclusion. Feminism is about a movement through which we can...

IDAHO April 22, 2014

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Norms can be broken

“Feminism matters because it is a platform of ideas striving towards a world free of oppressive roles. One wonderful women in my life showed me that norms could be broken for better, that our given roles that deprive us from...

IDAHO April 18, 2014

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Personal is Political

“Feminism matters because it helped me to question, to understand how heterosexuality and gender is a social construction, to realize that there is a lot of work that can be done to change things, because they are not ‘natural’ or...

IDAHO April 18, 2014

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Feminism is a way for me to fight back…

“Feminism matters because I am part of the world which is filled up with hatred and discrimination, which needs to be pulled down. Feminism is a way for me to fight back and be part of the development of humankind,...

IDAHO April 14, 2014

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