Drawing connections: women and climate
Along with sister movements and partners, SheDecides Bangladesh organised a two-day art festival in Cox's Bazaar to visualise the connection between women and climate justice and highlight the impact of climate change on women's lives. Live art workshops, art therapy sessions, panel discussions, live music, and art exhibitions at Cox's Bazaar Art Club were held under the theme Hritubatee: Flow of Life.
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We're delighted to announce that Rupsa Mallik, director of programmes and innovation at CREA, will deliver the next SheDecides Masterclass on 20 October 2021, 12:00 GMT / 17:30 Indian Standard Time. Rupsa will explore the often challenging crux between disability rights and abortion rights, sharing examples of cross-movement work.
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 Nothing for youth, without youth!
The first meeting of the new SheDecides Youth Accountability Panel was held this week! The panel is drawing on their diverse professional, activist and lived experience to set the bar for youth accountability in the movement. Watch this space for more exciting plans!
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SheDecides Ghana recently held an organising workshop to onboard new organisers and develop a collective vision for the movement. The 20 organisers from five regions worked together to define next steps on their organising journey; some committed to going back to their regions to mobilise more like-minded young people. They will first organise safe spaces to develop shared narratives on issues they want to advance: access to SRHR services during the pandemic and access to contraception.
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SheDecides Philippines has launched a podcast! The PH Podcast is a conversation tackling diverse topics such as safe spaces, comprehensive sex education, body positivity, and everything else in between. Hosts Aldrin and Jona guide conversations on these often stigmatised, taboo topics and invite you in as not only a listener but someone who gets to decide!
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In the Dominican Republic, young women from various groups and collectives - including SheDecides organiser Esther Girón - are leading a series of local meetings in the run-up to a national convening of young Dominican women from rural areas, Afro-descendant, migrant-descendant and queer communities.
Together, they're building and designing a strategy that will advance the demands of women and birthing people, and draw up an action plan for national-level political organisation to strengthen and expand the women's movement in the Dominican Republic.
Through collective strategising they aim to strengthen the feminist movement and create a sustainable plan for a more equal society. Their broad focus is on the advancement of human rights and the promotion of a secular state. By constructing rights-based narratives, framed around feminist theory, they will work towards the social destigmatisation of abortion, and wider legislation and public policy that provides favourable frameworks for the right to decide and respects, promotes and guarantees human rights for all.
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