Category — Interviews

One of the three editors of Letters from Young Activists, Kenyon Farrow talks with The Fight! Project about youth activists and the future of activism.

What do you say makes someone an activist?
I’d say it’s anyone who is doing things to hopefully leave this earth better than they found it. Sometimes we think only people who are a part of organizations, go to demonstrations or are Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson types can be activists. But I think the woman who hides another woman in her home from an abusive spouse is an activist. The person who takes clothes to the kids next door who don’t have anything new is an activist. [Read more →]

Ugandan women and girls tell their personal stories of rape, abuse, displacement, enslavement and torture.

Over the past year, IRIN, the humanitarian news and analysis service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, has collaborated with the Uganda Women Writers Association (FEMRITE), to produce “Today you will understand,” a collection of the personal war stories of 16 women. [Read more →]