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Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh.bsky.social · Sep 15

🔊For September, we take our #Speakeasy online!
On Friday 26th September we’ll be exploring via Twitter Spaces the #Unsaid Things of Feminist Organising

Join us!❤️💛💚

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MADRE @madrespeaks.bsky.social · Sep 15

Today is the first day of #HispanicHeritageMonth! For over 40 years, MADRE has worked with a growing number of organizations worldwide, including Latin America. By centering local expertise, we build strong relationships to achieve lasting feminist change. MADRE.org

Graphic image of Latin America and the Caribbean over a purple background. Text reads: Did you know? MADRE works with 21 organizations and activists in 13 countries across Latin America.

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7amleh.bsky.social @7amleh.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚨 Call for Fellows 🚨
7amleh is launching a six-month, part-time Fellowship Program for 4–6 researchers working at the intersection of AI, surveillance, and digital rights in/around Palestine.

📝View fellowship details & apply: 7amleh.org/post/fellows...

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CREA @thinkcrea.bsky.social · Aug 20

Applications Open!

Apply to join CREA and DNS's Possible AIs: Institute for Speculative Technologies, a 7-day immersive space to demystify AI, trace its histories, and imagine new feminist futures.

🔗 Apply now: creaworld.org/possible-ais...

#ThinkCREA

A poster with a light blue background and two red speech bubbles outlined in black. The larger bubble on the left features CREA and Digital Narratives Studio logos at the top, followed by the text: “Possible AIs: Institute for Speculative Technologies.” A small icon of a brain inside a microchip is placed next to the text. Below it, details read: “31 October – 6 November 2025, Hong Kong.” The smaller bubble on the right reads: “Deadline: 10 September 2025.”

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Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) @thesvri.bsky.social · Aug 20

💫 This new research report and policy brief by Working Group 1 of the SVRI Faith & GBV Community of Practice offer a rich analysis of locally rooted, context-sensitive work.

Read the key findings below 👇
🔗 Read the full report: www.svri.org/wp-content/u...

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Wunpini F. Mohammed, PhD @wunpini.bsky.social · May 20

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My Voice, My Choice @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social · Aug 17

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · Aug 17

What is a 'Mx' title, how is it used, and why are some people mad about it?

You might be wondering what an Mx title is, why some trans people use them and how you can support someone who uses a Mx title.

www.thepinknews.com

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Aug 17

The weeks @thecontinent.org has a deeper explanation of the war in Sudan vs the western media narrative naming it as a “war about nothing “.

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · Aug 12

We know news headlines can be scary.

Marriage equality is the law of the land — and we’ll never stop fighting to keep it that way. Here are some facts around the anti-equality petition to the Supreme Court:

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Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh.bsky.social · Jul 25

What a weekend the Drama Queens team had.
We don’t talk a lot about how our consent engagement goes on here

So here’s a sneak peak at how our weekend went.

#Consent
#EndVAWG
#Accra
#Ghana

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GBVnet @preventgbvnet.bsky.social · Jul 16

“Women and girls living through humanitarian crises are at risk of being overlooked, just as they are at their most vulnerable.”

Check out this call to action from @unfpa.org on the funding shortages in crisis areas and the impact on especially women and girls.
www.unfpa.org/dont-let-the...

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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · Jul 13

🤔Know someone who implements VAW prevention programmes in Asia?

🌍Invite them to apply to our free facilitated course, Programming for Prevention: A Practical Approach to Design & Implementation.

🗓️Live sessions: Wednesdays 3 Sep - 22 Oct at 1500 ICT.

🔗https://cutt.ly/zrRtWgQ5
#ProgrammingWell

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My Voice, My Choice @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh.bsky.social · Jul 11

As part of this cohort, you’ll have access to resources, trainings, and a network of feminist activists using various mediums of Art to document, create change and evoke emotion.

Apply now – scan the QR code.

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Eban Collective 2025

Welcome! The Eban Collective is a safe space and creative learning hub for queer and gender non-conforming youth. We’re so excited that you’re interested in joining our next cohort. This form helps us...

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Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh.bsky.social · Jul 11

Ready to create change?

🎨✨ Creativity is Resistance, color outside of the lines with Drama Queens’ Eban Collective.

For our second year, we’re going Innn on artistic activism as a feminist praxis. We’ll be exploring African Feminist Theory, intersectionality and Ecological Justice among others.

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Prevention Collaborative @prevention-collaborative.org · Jul 7

✨Exciting news!

🎓Applications are open for this year’s cohort of our facilitated course, Programming for Prevention: A Practical Approach to Design & Implementation.

🔗Apply by 27 July https://cutt.ly/zrRtWgQ5

#ProgrammingWell

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Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF) @safeabortion.bsky.social · Jul 2

OK these misleading and hugely stigmatizing images used by news outlets to illustrate abortion have GOT TO GO! 🙄🗑️🚯

gna.org.gh/2025/06/unsa...

Unsafe Abortion in Ghana: A Risky Reality for Young Girls | Ghana News Agency

By Linda Naa Deide Aryeetey Accra, June 27. GNA – Giving birth as a teenager, especially in a deprived community like James Town, a densely populated suburb of…

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Decolonial Feminist Collective @decolonialfc.bsky.social · Jun 28

Have y’all registered for this upcoming Fund Abortion Not War workshop hosted by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social?! The money raised will go to the Sameer Project providing on the ground support to Palestinians.
www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fun...

Fund Abortion Not War — Workshops 4 Gaza

Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40). Step 2: Register for “Fund Abortion Not War” here . In this workshop, three reproductive healthcare providers who have been...

www.workshops4gaza.com

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Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh.bsky.social · Jun 28

Watch our short film on the family values we protect in our communities, instead of protecting the safety, self-expression of children and vulnerable people: www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwG...

The Family Values we protect

YouTube video by Drama Queens Ghana

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Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh.bsky.social · Jun 23

Watch our short film, "I Do but Not Tonight" on rape culture and boundaries.

Committed relationships and partnerships aren't perpetual passes to your partner's body and sex. Boundaries are an important part of all relationships, & even in long term commitments.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-B...

I do but not tonight

YouTube video by Drama Queens Ghana

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Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh.bsky.social · May 23

Workplace harassment is wrong.

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Workplace Harassment

YouTube video by Drama Queens Ghana

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Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh.bsky.social · May 18

A family should be a garden, where every soul thrives. Where love nurtures, and every person blooms.

#UntilEveryBodyIsFree #ShoMiYuFambul #ShowMeYourFam

Drama Queens @dramaqueensgh.bsky.social · May 15

African families have never been confined to bloodlines or the narrow walls of a nuclear home. We are raised by aunties, cousins, church mothers, friends turned kin, and neighbours who become pillars. Let’s honour the bonds that hold us — chosen or not.

#UntilEveryBodyIsFree
#ShoMiYuFambul

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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · May 10

As an Egyptian and a feminist and a revolutionary, I found in these novels what I long for: revolution and resistance to fascism that sees women www.feministgiant.com/p/books-the-...

Books: The Shadown King & Beneath the Lion's Gaza

Women Fighting Fascism

www.feministgiant.com

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