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Thursday, 10 December 2009 07:13 |
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This online magazine was started by a group of high school students called the UNIFEM Youth Ambassadors in the summer of 2009. These Ambassadors started Youth Say NO: the Student Network Against Gender-Based Violence to raise awareness about violence against women. The idea is to build a culture that promotes gender equality and human rights and to have fun doing it.
What will you find here?
The YSN Mag covers current affairs, popular culture, fashion, entertainment and creative writing…all from a gender-sensitive perspective. It is a magazine by youth and for youth and we welcome articles from anyone who is interested in gender equality and wants to contribute.
YSN originated in Bangkok, Thailand but the issues covered here are relevant all over the world.
Join the movement - SAY NO to Violence Against Women!
Learn more about UNIFEM.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 09:28 |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:03 |
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by Tanya Kunwongse
She had many ribbons tied to her hair
Ribbons of color, size, and shape
She would wear them like the expression on her face-
A permanent smile, frozen in its place.
The ribbons would bounce up and down
As she was flung from one side of the room to the other
Arms casually tugged
and Legs carelessly squeezed.
Her cheeks were slapped red but
She never made noise.
Her lips were molded together.
She was told that dolls do not speak.
Today the ribbons in her hair finally rot off,
When overexposure to violence and oppression made her scream.
She stood up for the first time and walked out the door.
She never looked back.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 01:08 |
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Self-Esteem is Love, According to Steinem |
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Monday, 16 November 2009 10:27 |
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 This issue we feature the inspirational words of Gloria Steinem. Steinem is one of the most import feminist activists and political leaders of our time. She rose to prominence in the 1960s and is still active today. The excerpt below is from her book "Revolution from Within", which was published in 1992. Even though her words are from many years ago, they still ring true today.
Self-esteem is love: the Man Junkie
Tina is a friend and a musician who represents for me a kind of miracle. With almost no outside help or support, she rescued herself from something most women have experienced enough to be ashamed of, and some have never escaped. I speak of that half-a-person feeling so carefully cultivated in females, that one that makes us think we are nothing without a man.
For years, I listened to Tina as she wrote songs of her own and did creative arrangements for other people’s melodies. She loved and was good at her work; yet in the middle of any inspiration or deadline, she would drop everything if a man, almost any man, asked her out.
It wasn’t sex itself that hooked her. Going to bed with a man was mostly a means of pleasing him. It wasn’t company she longed for. She had a lot of women friends and often didn’t much enjoy the men she went out with. It wasn’t even the hope of marriage and security. She often chose unmarriageable men and then lavished more time and money on them than they did on her. It was magical thinking: this man will be different. This will make everything all right.
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