Tag: Equality for all
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Time For A New World Order
“Historically, Pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas,…
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New rules for post-patriarchal systems and societies
Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! The enemy of feminism isn’t men. It’s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.“ (Justine Musk) Most people are done with patriarchy. No, really. I mean it. They…
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Does Science Say Men Are More Creative Than Women?
Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! What is creativity? Creativity is the process to make something unique and useful, and the successful result of this process is innovation. The Nobel Prize is the ultimate symbol for innovative achievements. Even though women constitute for over 50% of the world population, only 5% of all of Nobel…
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“Visionary and creative resistance”: meet the women challenging extractivism – and patriarchy
Enjoy this Daily Find, love from CW! Environmental degradation is deliberate, violent and patriarchal. From Turkey to Guatemala, women are on the frontlines of resistance. “What is the state? We are the state! The state is the state thanks to us” said Havva Ana (Mother Eve) , a 63-year old woman who, in July 2015,…
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These women are finding creative ways to defy patriarchy in Bangladesh
Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Tassafy Hossain is smiling broadly when we meet backstage at the feminist arts festival Women of the World, (WOW), in Dhaka in March. She talks with enthusiasm about the packed programme that she co-curated, including theatre performances featuring disabled actors, and talks from leading women’s rights activists in Bangladesh.…
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Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men
What is the patriarchy and how do we creatively fix it? Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! In response to my recent newsletter, which I named “Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning as a Response to Patriarchy,” I received two comments from men that led me to choose to write this piece. In two very different ways, they pointed…
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Creative Service
I wonder what it would take to inspire an incoming government to creatively serve their people? What would the requirements be? What kind of mindset would the elected officials need to adopt in order to do this kind work? Is the bureaucracy so deeply ingrained that this kind of change is not possible? What is…
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Creative Solutions: Needed & Not Easy
It is hard to create a solution for a problem that we do not agree even exists. There is a gulf of inequality between people that is like an elephant in the room. There it stands but nobody knows how to begin the conversation. Instead we strive to keep going and pretend the thing, (that…
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Racism and Public Health
Please take the time to click through and read this full article. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW. Canada remains a nation where a person’s colour, religion, culture or ethnic origin* are determinants of health that result in inequities in social inclusion, economic outcomes, personal health, and access to and quality of health and social…
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To cure racism, treat the disease — not the symptoms
Please take the time to click through and read this full article. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW. Recently, I saw a patient because he had started coughing up small amounts of blood. I discussed the patient with one of the medical students. He felt that that the patient’s diagnosis was hemoptysis; basically, coughing up…