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Performative Feminism

Performative Feminism

The article was previously published in our special Women's Day edition, published on ISSUU. Feminism as a movement has undergone a series of evolutions in terms of how activism is carried out. In its early stages, during the 19th and 20th century, it was associated with the temperance and abolitionist movements and gave voice to...

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Revisiting the “second shift”

Revisiting the “second shift”

Those already familiar with the concept of the “second shift” would know that the word “revisiting” in the title of this essay is actually a misnomer. And to those less familiar or uninitiated, let me introduce you, officially, to Second Shift. But in order to appreciate what the second shift entails, we must know what...

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Feminism has fought no wars   

Feminism has fought no wars  

The last 8th of March, 2015 marked yet another Women’s International Day, reminding me once more that it cannot be mere coincidence that this date – which happens to coincide just one day after my own birthday – embodies one of my life’s greatest causes: women. As I woke up the day following, my birthday,...