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New comedies portray overworked mothers going wild. It’s liberating, but structural causes for their exhaustion need...
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Published on: 27 November 2018

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We explore the value of direct experience in changing people’s minds, as well as delving into why it’s harder to...
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Humanitarian response in Lebanon: changing social norms or reproducing them?

Published on: 11 April 2018

Written by: Lana Khattab All articles by Lana Khattab

While gendered realities are increasingly acknowledged and addressed by international organisations and agencies, in...
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Meet the Tunisian drag queen defying the odds

Published on: 26 February 2018

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On the frontline of the LGBTQIA movement in Tunisia, a trans non-binary drag queen is revolutionizing and leading...
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Tunisia: selective feminism and the marginalization of women’s struggles

Published on: 5 February 2018

Written by: Safa Belghith All articles by Safa Belghith

It's time to challenge the state's continued tradition of instrumentalizing women’s rights for its own political...
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Human trafficking begins at school

Published on: 2 August 2017

Written by: Pilar Cuartas Rodríguez All articles by Pilar Cuartas Rodríguez

Sister Genoveva is a 70-year old Colombian nun. She teaches city kids on human trafficking and she objects that the...

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