The fashion industry impacts the lives of all kinds of people from the farmers to the models, for this week’s blog we get a glimpse of how one women utilized her experiences industry to assist women and families in the Philippines. Renee Patron took the leap in creating a social enterprise with the establishment of […]
Fighting for Acid Attack Victims: PRIYA’S MIRROR
Last year we wrote about Priya’s Shakti, a comic used to create awareness on gender base violence and to assist in changing attitudes within Indian society and the world. In its first issue, we are introduced to our heroine Priya, who herself had survived a brutal rape. In this next issue, the writers continue to […]
Representation in Film: Turkey’s Filmmor Women’s Cooperative
Since 2003, the women of the Turkish organization Filmmor Women’s Cooperative (Filmmor) have held an international women’s film festival and what makes this film festival unique is that it is a traveling festival. The “International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels” happens annually in the months of March and April, commencing in the city of […]