May we introduce our member…the Women’s Museum of Costa Rica
Member of IAWM since its foundation in 2009. The Museo de las Mujeres Costa Rica exists since 2009 and is administrated by Claudia Mandel Katz and her family. The rooms are spreading over 50 sqm on the last upper floor and terrace of their own house in San José, Costa...
May we introduce… our member: the Women’s Museum of Ireland
The Women's Museum of Ireland was founded in November 2012 as a project that aimed to promote the formal recognition of the role of women in Irish history as well as the role of Irish women abroad. The museum's first event was the exhibition, Monster's of Creation:...
May we introduce… our member: Zubaan in India
The word "Zubaan" means tongue, language or voice. Since 2003 Zubaan is giving a voice to women by publishing books on, for, by and about women in South Asia. Zubaan is India's first feminist publishing house, but is also a research centre and an initiative for a...
Nadia Murad is asking for justice – and this is how we can support her
The question Nadia Murad wants to ask the UN security council is "Why is it taking so long?" Nadia Murad is one of over 7000 Yazidi women and children who were kidnapped by the IS in 2014. Now she pleads to the government of Iraq and the United Nations to finally...
May we introduce… our member: The Museo de la Mujer in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Para vérsion en espagnol, véase más abajo In 2006 a group of women, professionals and feminists, kicked off the activities MUSEUM OF WOMEN, by then unprecedented initiative in Latin America and with few precedents in the world. While the creation of the museum had...
Just started: The new e-essays project from Zubaan, India
Zubaan, the first feminist publishing house in India, started this week with this new and amazing E-Essays Project. This project wants to make feminist knowledge and academic research more easily accessible. For nearly fifteen years, Zubaan has been publishing quality...