The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Oct 7, 2009
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Atria, Oct 15, 2016
Edited registration of the Meet Up session with Nigerian-American author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in the library of Atria, On 15 October 2016. A group of invited feminists opinion makers joined in a discussion. The meeting was invites only, but was streamed live. Adichie was in the Netherlands because of the translation of her book: We should all be feminists in Dutch: Wij moeten allemaal feminist zijn.
Women in Agriculture | Kamea Black | TEDxWWU, Apr 14, 2017
Kamea L. Black is a senior at Fairhaven College where she is studying agriculture and food distribution systems. For two years, she has been the coordinator of Western Washington University's Outback Farm. She is also a senior farmhand at Rabbit Fields Farm in Mount Vernon, Washington. Her advocacy work for women in agriculture has included the facilitation of panel discussions, presentations, workshops, speaking events, and interviews, notably including an interview with Dr. Vandana Shiva which can be found on Soundcloud. Black lives in Bellingham, Washington Kamea Black is a year round farmhand at Rabbit Fields farm and the coordinator of the student run farm at Western Washington University. Currently, she is creating the syllabus for her class on women in agriculture that she will teach at Fairhaven College in the Spring of 2017. During that same quarter she will graduate with a self-authored interdisciplinary degree in Holistic Agriculture & Food Distribution Systems. Proceeding this, she intends to continue pursuing her passion for increasing support for women in agriculture through shared spaces and cultivated community.
Using skits to encourage male engagement in EBF in Mozambique, Apr 27, 2021, 15 min
2021 Women and Gender in Development Virtual Conference Session: World Cafe Organization: Universidade Lúrio, Mozambique Presenter: Dr. Sofia Costa Abstract: In Mozambique and other African countries, a lack of male support in antenatal care (ANC) and health of their female partners as well as other gender inequalities contributes to low ANC participation and adverse health outcomes for women, including maternal mortality. In a low- income country context, empowering women to use ANC services, engage in exclusive breastfeeding, and take a proactive role in their own health and the health of their children will require male partners to contribute in the form of logistic, financial and psychological support. Starting from a gender-sensitive perspective, the Universidade Lúrio in Nampula, Mozambique supports students in developing skits, acted out by male and female students, to educate local communities on the role of both men and women in breastfeeding. These skits are performed through a program operated by UniLúrio called One Student, One Family where students are paired with households in the communities to deliver health and nutrition counselling throughout their studies.
WGD 2021 Keynote Address - Gender Transformative Food Systems, Apr 27, 2021
Women and Gender in Development Virtual Conference Session: Keynote Address - Gender Transformative Food Systems: Addressing structural and institutional barriers to gender equality in food systems Presenter: Dr. Jemimah Njuki, Africa Director, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
How to combat the sexism faced by women farmers, August 19, 2020
In a new report released by the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub and the Hill-Levene Schools of Business at the University of Regina, we examined the current situation for women entrepreneurs in Saskatchewan’s agriculture and agri-food sector.
Grada Kilomba Talk at the 2019 Verbier Art Summit, Mar 8, 2019
By translating her post-colonial research into visualisation, the artist Grada Kilomba reflects on the importance of transforming traditional knowledge production. Exploring the importance of questioning, the 2019 Summit speaker Grada Kilomba addresses how culture is not 'neutral' and proposes strategies of decolonising knowledge via a process of 'unlearning'.