Category: Inspiration

Men Speak Up – Vimeos    

This is an anthem for women who’ve made up their minds. They’ve had enough of putting up with a relationship that was emotionally, physically, sexually or financially abusive. Maybe it was all of those things. Or maybe their partners were dismissive and unloving, depleting rather than strengthening them. Maybe it was just too much work. In any case, these women are tired, they’ve given too much and they’re fed up of being disrespected. The title of ANML’s song says it all – It’s […]

#metoo movement  and 2017 TIME people of the year Golden Globes Activism Video: 16 days to end gender-based violence Video: Violence against the Rohingya The Guardian: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ODI: The Silent Crisis-violence against men and boys BBC News: Catholic Church Abuses The New York Times: LGBT Hate Crimes

i   Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes the men – they come with keys, and sometimes, the men – they come with hammers.   ii   Nin soo joog laga waayo, soo jiifso aa laga helaa,  I said Stop, I said No and he did not listen.   iii   Perhaps she has a plan, perhaps she takes him back to hers only for him to wake up hours […]

TED – We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much … to be successful, but not too successful, or they’ll threaten men, says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In this classic talk that started a worldwide conversation about feminism, Adichie asks that we begin to dream about and plan for a different, fairer world — of happier men and women who are truer to themselves.