Kelly shares an experience of sexual harrassment and culture-shock while living in Cairo:
It took a long time for me to process that culture shock–perhaps I am still–but one thing I know is this: The conversation is dynamic between an individual and her environment and just as it would be absolutely absurd to respond in a conversation [...]
Entries Tagged as 'violence against women/harrassment'
Culture shock & conversation
May 25th, 2010 · View Comments
Tags: Sharings · culture · expat life · feminism · health & well-being · human development · violence against women/harrassment
‘Roses are red, violence is blue’
September 6th, 2008 · View Comments
Listen to the song ‘Roses’ by Jo Freya here. What a beautiful way to transmit such a powerful message.
Heard it on Genvieve Tudor’s Sunday Folk BBC show from 31st August, you can still listen to the whole show until tomorrow.
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Reacting to harassment
September 5th, 2008 · View Comments
The BBC World Service show ‘World Have Your Say’ featured a segment on How should women react to sexual harassment? Listen here, it will be available for several more days.
Via Blank Noise.
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Gulabi Gang video
September 3rd, 2008 · View Comments
Via Feministing.
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Compassion and children
August 26th, 2008 · View Comments
On the Psychology Today blog there’s a post which highlights the difficulty of dealing with gender roles as a wife and mother:
The fact is that women in most countries are expected to be compassionate, nurturing, and to put their own needs aside on a regular basis. In most Third World countries, a woman’s primary job is considered to be [...]
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