Projects tagged "gender equality"

Everyday Sexism Project
Practitioner:
laura@everydaysexism.com
Date:
Apr 24 2013
Started by UK resident Laura Bates, The Everyday Sexism project is an open forum for women to record their stories of experienced sexism. The project was started as a means to show that gender inequality and sexism pervade contemporary society.
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Bringing Safe Sexy Back
Practitioner:
The UCLA Sex Squad
Date:
Jun 12 2013
Is there a way to make sex ed, big, scary, nasty, icky, sex ed, fun again? In the Spring Quarter of of 2013, UCLA students in the Sex Squad, a performance troupe dedicated to injecting a dose of humor into high school sex education, set out to answer that question through a series of short videos.
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Cats Against Cat Calling
Practitioner:
Hollaback!
Date:
Mar 20 2012
"Cats Against Cat Calling" began online as a movement under same slogan, powered through Hollaback! Hollaback! is an activist collective seeking to end street harassment. Working through a network of activists in various locations, Hollaback! encourages individuals to stand up for themselves against uncomfortable interactions in public.
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Theatre for Humans
Practitioner:
Terry Merkle & Susan Blyth
Date:
Apr 14 2013
Special Report from the War on Women
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Mtendo MweMa Project
Practitioner:
Correne Gichuru
Date:
Oct 17 2013
Mtendo MweMa Project's mission is to provide a safe house and educational opportunities to girls, especially those in danger of female circumcision, early marriage and pregnancy, whom otherwise have no alternative but to return to their villages during the holiday seasons in Kenya, East Africa.
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