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I've posted photos of Janelle Janelle Monáe in the past but they have often been less expressive and I've had to take a look at the photos I have posted and question why I have chosen one over another a few times. I've been reading quite a bit of really inspirational nonfiction as well as poetry this past year from Michelle Obama's Becoming to Claudia Rankine's Citizen to The Pretty One by Keah Brown and what is really striking to me besides the richness of the human story and their insights is that there has been a systematic racist effort to create a negative stereotype of the "angry Black woman" in an effort to suppress women and limit the emotions they are allowed to display publicly. Women are supposed to play cute and nice in general but especially women of color.
As a white woman, I will always have to acknowledge my privilege but in order to make feminism intersectional in my own way, I celebrate women of color and I want to try to dismantle some of the systemic racism and negative stereotypes that are meant to keep women in their place vs. celebrate the deep feeling wonders that they are.
When I met Janelle, she was so kind to me and so loving. Kindness can be powerful because I will remember meeting her until the day I die. But, there is also power in intense expression, sometimes anger and sometimes also outrage. And that's ok. If you love humans, you must accept that we are all deep feeling creatures trying to survive every day in the only ways we know how.
I love you, Janelle and I always will.
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Conviene saber, y no lo olvides, no hay mujer que tenga dueño,
Es una flor, no es una propiedad.
Conviene saber que aunque jamás nos lo dijeran de pequeños
El amor es el único juego en el que hay que empatar. .....
In memory of the hundreds of Bishnoi Women, who died protecting their dear trees in 1730, a number of khejri trees are planted around the area, which is still notably lush and rich with animal life. The Bishnoi sacrifices became the inspiration for a much larger Chipko movement that is still growing today, in which villagers physically embrace trees to save them from logging. The Bishnoi faith is founded on 29 principles, most of which promote environmental stewardship. Bishnois strictly forbid the harming of trees and animals.
Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz, Barmer, Rajasthan.
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International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the communities.
Photo (by Firoz Ahmad): A woman leader at Basawan Hamlet Pure Village, Pratapgarh, UP in India.
Photo by Firoz Ahmad
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Location: MP, India
Programm: The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) zinc/ORS program in India.
Inspired Women are Empowered Women
The goal of gender equality has been at the centre of the economic and political agenda during the two decades since the adoption of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. In September 2015, world leaders adopted the 17 new global Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets. Goal 5 focuses specifically on gender equality and the empowerment of women. Financial independence is key to women empowerment.
Photo: Firoz Ahmad
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Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.
Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.
interactive.unwomen.org/multimedia/timeline/yearinreview/...
Photo: Firoz Ahmad
# The Indian women dress up like newlyweds in bright hues of red, orange, blue and green in order to celebrate the Teej festival.
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The Teej festival is an auspicious Hindu festival in which married women worship Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva to pray for marital bliss. The women gather in groups to enjoy the celebrations with Teej songs, mehendi and playing on swings, while enjoying the monsoon winds.
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Orange the World: #HearMeToo
Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.
In recent years, the voices of survivors and activists, through campaigns such as #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc and others, have reached a crescendo that cannot be silenced any more.
Join the UNiTE Campaign’s Orange the World: #HearMeToo! Share your photos, messages and videos showing how you are participating in the campaign at facebook.com/SayNO.UNiTE and twitter.com/SayNO_UNiTE using #orangetheworld and #HearMeToo.
Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.
Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.
An interactive data game that lets you explore the progress and pitfalls of girls’ and women’s education around the world. “learn more”.
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad
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An interactive data game that lets you explore the progress and pitfalls of girls’ and women’s education around the world. “learn more”.
Shot with Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* FE 55mm F1.8 ZA at village Jogiwada, Madhya Pradesh in India.
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An interactive data game that lets you explore the progress and pitfalls of girls’ and women’s education around the world. “learn more”.
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad
ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN AND GIRLS
Violence against women and girls is a grave violation of human rights. Violence happens in public and private places.
It has many forms which range from domestic or intimate
partner violence to sexual harassment and assault, female
genital mutilation, trafficking, sexual violence in conflict
and gender-related killing.
The impact of violence ranges from immediate to longterm physical, sexual and mental health consequences
for women and girls, including death. It negatively affects
women’s general well-being and prevents women from
fully participating in society. Violence not only has longlasting consequences for women but also their families,
the community and the country at large. It also has tremendous costs, from greater health care and legal expenses to productivity losses, impacting national budgets and overall development.
#EndVAW #HearMeToo
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Location: New Delhi, India
International Women’s Day 2019: Think equal, build smart, innovate for change
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Welcome 2017.
Let us pray that it will be a year with peace, happiness and abundance of new friends.
Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.
Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.
Photo: Firoz Ahmad at Barmer, Rajasthan_ CmF_Tata Trusts SHG.
'The assumption and common practice that women and girls look after the home and the family is a stubborn and very real stereotype that not only discriminates against women, but limits men's participation and connection within the family and society,' Anne Hathaway said at the UN this Women's Day (2017).
www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2017/3/speech-anne-hathaw...
Woman and child at a village in Silliguri, West Bengal, India
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"When we unleash the power of women, we can secure the future for all," says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for International Women’s Day 2015. -
You can See 4 short films:
a film with English subtitle is about the empowerment of marginalized women and adolescent girls.>
a short film about the Girls lead boys in academic achievement>
2 short film about the women's and Girls education:
Portrait of a community health activist ASHA shot at Betul, Madhya Pradesh.
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One of the key components of the National Rural Health Mission is to provide every village in the country with a trained female community health activist ASHA or Accredited Social Health Activist. Selected from the village itself and accountable to it, the ASHA will be trained to work as an interface between the community and the public health system. Following are the key components of ASHA :
• ASHA must primarily be a woman resident of the village married/ widowed/ divorced, preferably in the age group of 25 to 45 years.
• She should be a literate woman with due preference in selection to those who are qualified up to 10 standard wherever they are interested and available in good numbers. This may be relaxed only if no suitable person with this qualification is available.
• ASHA will be chosen through a rigorous process of selection involving various community groups, self-help groups, Anganwadi Institutions, the Block Nodal officer, District Nodal officer, the village Health Committee and the Gram Sabha.
• Capacity building of ASHA is being seen as a continuous process. ASHA will have to undergo series of training episodes to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and confidence for performing her spelled out roles.
• The ASHAs will receive performance-based incentives for promoting universal immunization, referral and escort services for Reproductive & Child Health (RCH) and other healthcare programmes, and construction of household toilets.
• Empowered with knowledge and a drug-kit to deliver first-contact healthcare, every ASHA is expected to be a fountainhead of community participation in public health programmes in her village.
• ASHA will be the first port of call for any health related demands of deprived sections of the population, especially women and children, who find it difficult to access health services.
• ASHA will be a health activist in the community who will create awareness on health and its social determinants and mobilise the community towards local health planning and increased utilisation and accountability of the existing health services.
• She would be a promoter of good health practices and will also provide a minimum package of curative care as appropriate and feasible for that level and make timely referrals.
• ASHA will provide information to the community on determinants of health such as nutrition, basic sanitation & hygienic practices, healthy living and working conditions, information on existing health services and the need for timely utilisation of health & family welfare services.
• She will counsel women on birth preparedness, importance of safe delivery, breast-feeding and complementary feeding, immunization, contraception and prevention of common infections including Reproductive Tract Infection/Sexually Transmitted Infections (RTIs/STIs) and care of the young child.
• ASHA will mobilise the community and facilitate them in accessing health and health related services available at the Anganwadi/sub-centre/primary health centers, such as immunisation, Ante Natal Check-up (ANC), Post Natal Check-up supplementary nutrition, sanitation and other services being provided by the government.
• She will act as a depot older for essential provisions being made available to all habitations like Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORS), Iron Folic Acid Tablet(IFA), chloroquine, Disposable Delivery Kits (DDK), Oral Pills & Condoms, etc.
• At the village level it is recognised that ASHA cannot function without adequate institutional support. Women's committees (like self-help groups or women's health committees), village Health & Sanitation Committee of the Gram Panchayat, peripheral health workers especially ANMs and Anganwadi workers, and the trainers of ASHA and in-service periodic training would be a major source of support to ASHA.
Photograph by Firoz Ahmad
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"When we unleash the power of women, we can secure the future for all," says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for International Women’s Day 2015. -
Photo: Firoz Ahmad
See 2 short films:
a film with English subtitle is about the empowerment of marginalized women and adolescent girls.>
a short film about the Girls lead boys in academic achievement>
Join The War Against COVID-19
Health workers are at the front line of any outbreak response and as such are exposed to hazards that put them at risk of infection with an outbreak pathogen (in this case COVID-19). Hazards include pathogen exposure, long working hours, psychological distress, fatigue, occupational burnout, stigma, and physical and psychological violence.
Hundreds of doctors, health workers and emergency responders, social activists, priests and nuns have lost their lives and thousands of health care workers were known to be infected because of the pandemic. Let us pray for them and their families.
A screenshot from a film by Firoz Ahmad Firoz/ Social Geographic
I had captured the unstylized portraits of Jharkhand women and girls last month.
Photo: A Community leader Portrait @ Jharkand by Firoz Ahmad Firoz, 2017
# The Indian women dress up like newlyweds in bright hues of red, orange, blue and green in order to celebrate the Teej festival.
Photo: Firoz Ahmad
All Rights Reserved
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The Teej festival is an auspicious Hindu festival in which married women worship Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva to pray for marital bliss. The women gather in groups to enjoy the celebrations with Teej songs, mehendi and playing on swings, while enjoying the monsoon winds.
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#orangetheworld and #HearMeToo.
Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.
In recent years, the voices of survivors and activists, through campaigns such as #MeToo, #TimesUp, #Niunamenos, #NotOneMore, #BalanceTonPorc and others, have reached a crescendo that cannot be silenced any more.
Join the UNiTE Campaign’s Orange the World: #HearMeToo! Share your photos, messages and videos showing how you are participating in the campaign at facebook.com/SayNO.UNiTE and twitter.com/SayNO_UNiTE using #orangetheworld and #HearMeToo.
Inspired Women are Empowered Women
The goal of gender equality has been at the centre of the economic and political agenda during the two decades since the adoption of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. In September 2015, world leaders adopted the 17 new global Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets. Goal 5 focuses specifically on gender equality and the empowerment of women. Financial independence is key to women empowerment.
Photo: Firoz Ahmad
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Watch Full movie on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRR-itzP0U4
MISSION 2020: CREATING “LAKHPATI KISANS” AND BUILDING “SMART VILLAGES”
Building on its key learnings, CInI designed and initiated implementation of a five year mission programme “Lakhpati Kisan – Smart Villages”, in April 2015. The goals of the programme under its Mission 2020 are:
Bringing 101,000 households irreversibly out of poverty with increased quality of life and life choices
Developing 17 blocks as regional drivers for growth across Maharashtra, Gujarat, Jharkhand and Odisha.
Filmed & Edited by Firoz Ahmad Firoz
An interactive data game that lets you explore the progress and pitfalls of girls’ and women’s education around the world. “learn more”.
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad
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Me. Zeal. Photo taken by Visperd. I'm standing the courtyard of the Hammer Museum in Westwood next to UCLA. I'm an artist. I paint. I make art. I like to take photographs too, but I don't consider myself a photographer. I take pictures for fun and fantasize about being a professional at it! I also take pictures and archive them as my personal image library for reference when I'm making "real" art and paintings. My photo album URL for flickr is: www.flickr.com/photos/artsyzeal.