Some form of International Women’s Day has been practiced in different parts of the world since the early 1900s. Back then, women were struggling for basic political and social equality with regards to the vote, education, and work.
That struggle continues today:
How the justice system shuts women out
The pandemic and the search for medical care while pregnant
Gendered Labor and Structural Violence: The case of women farmworkers in Tunisia
But there have also been primordial and embodied struggles with systemic and structural violence, and these have managed to pierce through public consciousness today. Sexual violence is one of the most piercing forms of such struggles, and it held center stage last year after a long history of pervasiveness in public and private spaces:
Ahmed Bassam Zaki’s charges highlight flaws in penal code
Where do survivors of sexual violence turn? The case of Ahmed Bassam Zaki
The unspoken crime of marital rape
Madame Defarge reminds us of the core of her revolution
Untold stories of sexual harassment in Egypt’s newsrooms
Divorce, violence and financial independence
How Egyptian women have broken the stigma around sexual violence
Victory in defeat: How the revolution changed perceptions of violence against women
Inherent guilt: Menna Abdel Aziz and the victims of Ahmed Bassam Zaki
All this violence raised pertinent questions on justice:
Between two fires: If you don’t want your harasser to be tortured
Five takes on female cops fighting harassment on Cairo’s streets
Series: Community accountability — how does it really work?
Grappling with forms of justice: Combatting sexual violence in civil society
Other forms of violence are less visible, as they remain in private spheres:
When it’s the doctors carrying out female circumcision
‘Cut it, dye it, cover it’: How schools control girls’ hair
On giving birth: Our bodies as vehicles and our bodies as agents
The Tiktok girls have put some embodied struggles on display, perhaps not with the exact intention of presenting them as a struggle, but with their prosecution:
Up in arms over a TikTok star: Public morality and the state
There is always a process of becoming in these different struggles:
Proving paternity: A prolonged struggle for thousands of Egyptian mothers
Malak al-Kashif: Becoming a woman
Protection, siege and escape: What my body has done
Our lives are not conditional: On Sarah Hegazy and estrangement
Where do old lesbians go to die?
And there is a new, emerging feminism to reckon with:
From behind the screens: Feminism and hope in 2020
Liberal versus radical feminism: the fundamental contradiction
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Malak al-Kashif: Becoming a woman
Malak might be the first out transperson detained in connection with a political case in Egypt.
Midnight in Cairo: A Conversation with Raphael Cormack
Ifdal Elsaket discusses "Midnight in Cairo" with author, Raphael Cormack
Someone sleeping in your bed: On feminism and marriage in Egypt
Ghadeer Ahmed on feminism and marriage in Egypt
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