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Day 13: Native American women photographers as storytellers

13th
Mar. × ’10

In 'Native American Women Photographers As Storytellers', Joan M. Jensen, Professor Emerita at New Mexico State University, presents a brief introduction to the visual anthropology of indigenous female "message carriers".

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Day 12: Art against femicide (Part II)

12th
Mar. × ’10

Co-Curators Dolores Mercado and Linda Xochitl Tortolero, discuss the exhibition Rastros y Cronicas: Women of Juarez. Unsolved murders of the women in this border town are brought to light through the works of artists featured in the exhibit.

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Day 11: Art against femicide (Part I)

11th
Mar. × ’10

Honeyspace’s fourth show was called Portrait of Silvia Elena, a memorial to 17-year-old Silvia Elena Rivera Morales who was killed in 1995 — one of the first victims of the unsolved femicides taking place in Juarez, Mexico over the past 10 years.

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Gender, Power and International Development

21st
Jan. × ’10

Assignments from MIT's Open Courseware's Gender, Power and International Development course.

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homegirls & handgrenades: BloomBeautiful

11th
Mar. × ’09

for L, my sister who is unwittingly teaching me forgiveness

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Get Inspired: Young girls and leadership

9th
Mar. × ’09

How did the 2008 US elections affect young women and girls? supreme being has a new post about a recent survey conducted by the Girl Scout Research Institute.

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It takes a nation of millions: A conversation between two hip-hop heads

20th
Feb. × ’09

Last night I had an alarming conversation with an emcee from back home. We were chatting via text messaging, so the conversation didn't get too deep, but at the end of it all I realized that we are still being deprived of the truth.

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