In the age of unparalleled freedoms to live our lives as we wish, it’s unfortunate that women still allow beauty and the illusion of its inevitable fading to lurk around and threaten the fringes of women’s progress.
Why More Women Need to Acknowledge that Motherhood is Not for Everyone
While most mothers admit that having children is a lot of hard work and sacrifice, they are quick to point out that the rewards outweigh the challenges. For a number of women across the world, this is not the case.
On The Politics of Silence: Reflections on ‘Kim JI Young’ – The Movie and Lessons Learned
women don’t have to do something major like save a nation or participate in politics to have their battles acknowledged. We are all Kim Ji Youngs; faceless young women, battling daily misogyny in our lives from our houses to schools to workplaces.
Rewriting a Culture Rooted in Patriarchal Standards of Feminine Beauty.
Each time you shame another woman because you believe she rates lower than you on the scale of male desirability, you expose your deep lack of self-love and self-esteem. And to achieve a gender-equal world, where women are respected and valued as humans and not objects, rhetorics that define our humanity based on patriarchal standards must end.
Ladies Beware: That Nice Muslim Man Could be a Misogynist.
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of …
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence: 16 Books as Witnesses
The TMWT team did a blog tour to handpick 16 books in commemoration of 16 days of activism. Enjoy!
Why the “Muslim” version of Feminism?
On one hand you have these religious authorities — who do the service of not sugar coating or engaging in apologetics — and their women-bashing, women-oppressing statements and rulings, and on the other hand you have feminism with all its welcoming love and appreciation towards women. Where do you expect Muslim women to go to seek the care, appreciation and validation they need away from the oppressive norms of traditional patriarchy?