Stories of Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things

The Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility began in 1989 as a six-week series of free modern dance classes for 50 students living in the Flatbush community of Brooklyn. Sister Kwayera Archer-Cunningham founded Ifetayo out of her love for children and a desire to enrich their lives with the arts and knowledge of their African cultural heritage. At the end of the six-week period, auditions were held and ten scholarship students were selected to become the founding members of the Ifetayo Youth Ensemble. [Read more →]

100 Places Every Woman Should Go by Stephanie Griest highlights 100 special destinations and encourages women of any age to see the world. [Read more →]

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 →]

by Lana Šlezić

In March 2004, when award-winning photographer Lana Šlezić began an assignment in Afghanistan, she never dreamed she would stay for two years. At the time she believed that since the ousting of the suffocating Taliban in 2001, Afghan women and girls were living under considerably less oppressive conditions. She soon discovered that life for Afghan women was not as she expected and felt compelled to stay and document their story. [Read more →]

In “First Victims of Freedom”, Amy DePaul interviews Iraq’s most tenacious feminist , Yanar Mohammed, founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, about why she says the U.S. war and its aftermath have completely disenfranchised women in the country. [Read more →]