Category: Events

Cat Links Events, Talks

Illuminating Contemporary Feminisms in South Asia

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Monday, April 29, 2013, 7-9pm

Given the recent media attention to gender-based violence in South Asia, SAWCC presents two projects that imagine and create feminist spaces in urban and rural South Asia: Shilpa Phadke’s novel, Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets, and Monica Jahan Bose and Nandita Ahmed’s collaborative printmaking and story project, “Storytelling with Saris.” … Continue readingIlluminating Contemporary Feminisms in South Asia

Cat Links Events, Performance

Freedom. Safety. NOW. Creative Action Against Gender-Based Violence

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Saturday, January 26, 2013, noon to 1pm

Please join the women of SAWCC in front of the Indian Consulate in New York for a creative movement-based protest action in response to the horrific violence wrought upon Jyoti Singh Pandey in India in December 2012 and on women’s bodies everyday around the world. … Continue readingFreedom. Safety. NOW. Creative Action Against Gender-Based Violence

Cat Links Events

Shine Jyoti

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 5:30-7pm

SAWCC is proud to co-sponsor Sakhi for South Asian Women’s candlelight vigil honoring the memory of Jyoti Singh Pandey, victim of the recent fatal rape in December 2012 in New Delhi. Please join us in honoring Jyoti’s life and reminding ourselves that the work to end gender-based violence is urgent, necessary, and ongoing. … Continue readingShine Jyoti