Becoming Io: Facilitating Space for Feminist Conversations
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Dear friends and colleagues. We would like to announce that Isis International Manila is now Io: Facilitating Spaces for Feminist Conversations. Please join us as we make the transition by clicking on our new website: http://feminists.io. Thank you so much for being part of our Isis Manila journey.
We finally did it! – Isis International is now Io: Facilitating Spaces for Feminist Conversations – or Io, for short. According to Greek mythology, Io was the consort of Zeus and was chased away by Hera to Egypt where she became Isis. This mythical association between Io and Isis reassured us as we made the difficult decision to change our organizational name of 45 years.
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Changing Times for the Isis Resource Center
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by Nina Somera
The Resource Center started in a little corner at the International Documentation Center (IDOC) in Rome in the heady days of the 1970s. Rome was a hub of solidarity movements, hosting exiles including the sisters who found Isis Internacional in Santiago, Chile.
Although there was a dearth of writings by women from the South, the Resource Center grew. It collected analytical pieces written by women about the issues of the day. A lot of them came from small meetings on food security, sustainable agriculture, environment, health, especially maternal health and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). A lot of them have not seen print in any mainstream publications and even academic journals. Most of them are monographs.
What if Trudeau, instead of Duterte smooched the Filipino woman migrant worker?
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by Nina Somera
By now, a lot of people are cringing over the Philippine President’s predatory kiss to a Filipino migrant worker during his State visit in South Korea. But what if it were Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who smooched the woman on stage in front of the cameras? The Prime Minister was adored as an #APEChottie during his 2015 Manila visit. His boyish smile, toned body, gentle demeanour and crisp outfit make quite a foil against a geriatric, unkempt, foul-mouthed, and philandering fellow Head of State, who has mandated the murder of 20,000 suspected drug users [1]. But would handsomeness and hunkiness render the act less predatory?
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Marilee Karl: The wind propelling Isis’ wings
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by Nina Somera
Isis International’s founder Marilee Karl has been given the 2017 Women Have Wings award
There is a boundless energy as she grips the handles and turns to whatever direction she desires. It is her walker that slows her down. Her mobility may have taken the toll of toiling for years, but not her mind and spirit.
At 80, Marilee Karl lives by herself in a Strasbourg apartment, near her daughter Alice and 3 young grand-daughters. Surrounded by the most interesting books among literature lovers and more interestingly, rare materials on Southern feminist movement-building, the voracious and critical reader in her can easily be linked to her solid and uncompromising voice as a story-teller.
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Isis Resource Center holds one of the largest feminist collections of materials in the Global South. With 40 years of publication experience, Isis holds a vast collection.