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This is a page of interesting art that we find provokes reflection and dialogue related to important gender topics. This is just a start - please add more:
Photography
- CARE Sri Lanka Video Photo Essays on how lives and relationships have changed through the EMERGE project:
Human Rights Watch also publishes photo essays on important gender and rights issues:
* Forbidden: LGBT People in Burundi * Libya: Opportunities for women's rights * Sri Lanka: Sexual Violence by Security Forces * Abuses against the Transgender Community in Honduras *
Forum Theater
Poetry
Sons, by Terisa Siagatonu and Rudy Francisco, on raising sons in the context of rape culture:
Dear Straight People, by Denice Frohman on gender, sexuality and homophobia:
Mu(sick), by Madiha Bhatti on music in popular culture and how it treats women's bodies
Film
Documentaries
A number of films shed light on issues of gender relations, constructions of 'what it means to be a man' and homophobia / heteronormativity:
Call Me Kuchu - The story of gay rights activist David Kato in Uganda.
The Mask You Live In - on how we treat and condition boys in America to repress emotions and act a certain way (part of The Representation Project)
Women, War and Peace - a five-part series of videos on women and conflict. Available at:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace
Young and Invisible - domestic workers in Yemen
Ted Talks
Afshan Jafar “Is this the Image of Progress?”
Jackson Katz “Violence against Women - a Man's Issue”
Pramada Menon “Not Straight, Not Weird…Just Commonplace”
Ted Porter, “A Call to Men”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “We Should all be Feminists”
Drawings
CARE video on girls drawing the future they hope to see for themselves from across Georgia, Ghana, Honduras, India and Madagascar:
