The one Erdoğan Fears: the Kurdish and Feminist Journalist Öznur Değer
In front of me, a 23-year-old woman. With unflappable conviction, she proudly claims her Kurdish nationality and fervently defends her rights, her language, her culture, her origins in short. This woman is Öznur Değer, a Kurdish and feminist journalist working for the newspaper JinNews. She embodies everything Erdoğan and his government fear and despise the most. And…
From Iran to France: When will Men Stop Telling Women How to Dress?
The recent unrest and demonstration in Iran followed by the death of Mahsa Amini under the custody of moral police invoke the age-old debate on what and how women should wear. The 22-year-old woman was arrested by the moral police for allegedly violating the dress code for women. Be it the mandatory dress code in Iran,…
US Abortion Rights: Republicans Reject Reason & Embrace Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy appears to be a characteristic that many politicians, the world over, have enthusiastically adopted, whether due to the knowledge that such a lack of integrity would not harm them politically or by sheer ignorance or greed. For the purposes of this piece, however, let’s narrow our focus to The US Republican Party’s Senator from…
Feminism and the Advocacy of Women’s Rights: Why Are these Relevant Today?
Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. The term “feminism” was first used in the late 19th century in association…
Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Spain: Consent is Key
Consent is key. While a purportedly obvious statement, on the other hand, the explicit nature of the phrase appears lost on certain people. For the purposes of this article, I refer to certain parties in the Spanish Judiciary. The Wolf Pack In 2016, an 18 year old woman was raped by five men in the…
Women and War: Abandoned Figures
What is the first thing we think about when we hear something about war? Most likely, thoughts about weapons, soldiers, explosions, blood, and death pop into our heads. War is a ‘traditionally’ male occupation. Men defend their own lands or attack others. They protect their families, mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters. They might fight for…
US Abortion Rights: Eureka! Comprehensive Action
After the initial inertia from the US Federal Government, in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade; the legal precedent that safeguarded bodily autonomy across the US; the Biden Administration initiated a range of steps in combating the pro-life movement’s continual push for an archaic land, void of reproductive rights. Also read: A Leap Backwards in…
8 Ways to Empower Women and Promote Equality in the Workplace
Women have made great strides in the workplace over the past few decades, but there is still a lot of work to be done to achieve equality. This blog post will discuss 8 ways business owners can empower women and promote equality in the workplace. These strategies can help create a more positive and productive work…
UK Abortion rights: The First Shots Fired
At a time when abortion rights are acutely under fire, it seems that the cowardly Conservative Party feels emboldened enough to reveal its true nature. That of an administration whose compassion towards those wishing to exercise their bodily autonomy, appears non-existent, as evidenced on the world stage recently. The international ministerial conference on…
Abortion Rights in the UK- A Looming Shadow
With the recent horrific news coming out of the US, constituting the overturning of Roe v. Wade; a judicial ruling which had previously enabled women to exercise their fundamental right to bodily autonomy; a collective shiver ran down the spines of people across the globe. Anxious persons glanced nervously around contemplating whether their own…
A Leap Backwards in Time
The Foreseen Horror I remember once hearing a common urban myth. If you put a frog in boiling water, it would immediately leap out. However, if you placed that frog in cold water, which you slowly heated up, it would remain there until it boiled. Although an urban myth, it appears painfully relevant now. With over…
