Opinion

This is what bothers me about this day internationally reserved for women. That we need to prove, or at least bombard others with posts until they are convinced, that women are not worth less than men. Just like we need to prove to the aggressors that we are not less than them. The parallel is undeniable.

With this illustration, I wished to evoke joy, struggle, beauty and celebration that are all related and essential for me. I felt like representing a body that was neither young nor smooth…

Article 66 of the code reads: “The (female) holder of the right of custody who marries a person not related to the child by a relationship of a prohibited degree is deprived of her right of custody.

" Patriarchy is not only external. It is well anchored in the body and spirit of our adversaries. It is also inside us, and this remains the most difficult part to face because giving oneself value in human relationships, especially in affective relationships, means paving the way to conflicts, and it hurts. "

A magazine cover announcing a baby bump, a new life… but this time the pregnant person wore a beard and moustache. “Diversity is a source of enrichment,” reads the headline. Something is not right about this, argues Monica from Italy.

Jennifer Guerra criticizes the widespread tendency to exclude trans women from the feminist movement. Monopolized by white cisgender and heterosexual middle-class women, she writes, “contemporary feminism risks reiterating the same binary logic of the patriarchy it combats.”

“The transition invites you to choose yourself, and to love yourself. But sometimes to choose ourselves we have to let go of something else, no matter how painful letting go is. Life was moving on and we, as a couple, were left behind.” Read more about Melissa Ianniello and her visual project depicting her relationship with her former partner who decided to transition while they were still together.

When I asked Sasha what she thought about feminists who claim that trans women are still men, sneaking patriarchal ideologies into feminist spaces, she shut that claim down with a reminder not to reduce women to their genitalia... “Who am I to represent anyone else, be they a feminist or a trans woman, and who is anyone else to represent me?” Sasha asks.

I am a feminist because I believe in my right to be me, and not a version of me dictated by some state, God, party, man or even another feminist woman.

In order to launch the MedfemiNiswiya platform, the first of things was to pronounce this name with all its multidimensional aspects. MedfemiNiswiya: a seashell-sounding title, rustling in the Latin language coupled with Arabic, which turns up with the N of Niswiya...