*Repost from Young Feminist Wire, my new favourite website!! Original available at:http://yfa.awid.org/2011/11/call-for-participation-in-young-feminist-blogathons-share-your-activist-story/
Submitted by Nelly on 28/11/2011 Call for Submissions: Young Feminist Blogathons – Deadline extended to December 5th!
There is still time to send in your last minute submissions to the Young Feminist Blogathons. Deadline has been extended until December 5th! Hurry up and Submit – we are looking forward to it.
The Young Feminist Wire is calling young women writers, bloggers and activists to submit blogs and/or videos on TWO themes this month. The first theme is Use of Social Media for Social Change and the other theme is Young Women on the Girl Effect. You can choose to submit your blogs/videos to ONE or BOTH themes by answering the questions provided. Please see below for descriptions on both themes including guiding questions and guidelines for submissions. DEADLINE for receiving submissions is November 27th, 2011!
Looking forward to receiving many submissions from young women!
1) USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs have exploded amongst young activists especially with the increase of internet accessibility in the last few years. Many young activists and organizers have used these mediums to rally support and spread awareness on social justice. On the one hand, the Arab uprisings have even been dubbed by some media as the Facebook and Twitter revolutions. On the other hand, the safety and security of online social media tools have been put to question with recent State crackdown on youth bloggers and internet censorship in Iran, Cuba and China. The debate on social media reached new heights when a Syrian Lesbian blogger was found to be an English man.
If you have used social media as a young feminist activist in your organizing, we want to hear your story.
How has social media helped you in organizing? How have identity politics and social ethics translated into the online world? How can social media benefit or harm women’s rights organizing?
Tell us about an organizing experience you have had that used social media to create social change. Did it work? What were the challenges? What advice do you have for other young feminist activists using social media in their organizing?
AND/OR
2) YOUNG WOMEN ON ‘INVESTING IN GIRLS’
Around the world, governments, donors, the UN, non-governmental organizations, financial institutions, corporations and the media alike are claiming that the solution to a wide range of the world’s problems is to invest in young women and girls. The Nike Foundation campaign on the Girl Effect, and Plan International’s Because I am a Girl campaign are just two examples of this growing trend. On the one hand, the growing focus on young women and girls presents important opportunities for the advancement of young women’s rights with increased attention and resources available for work with young women and girls. On the other hand, the investing in girls approach is often weak in its rights-based analysis and mostly tends to look at women and girls as an untapped resource for the advancement of their communities and societies.
If you are a young women activist who feels strongly about this trend, we want to hear your thoughts!
Tell us about your initial reactions to the Girl Effect and the Clock is Ticking videos. How are young women and girls portrayed in the videos? How is the “investing in girls” trend impacting the way people perceive young women and girl’s rights in your context? How is this trend affecting the work carried out to advance the rights of young women and girls? Does this influence what kinds of initiatives get funded or types of work that gets implemented? What are the opportunities and threats presented by this trend in your context? How are young women activists in your context responding to the trend?
How to participate
Simply, tell us your activist story through either a written blog post or short video. Refer to the submission guidelines below.
Click “Young Feminist Blogathon” to find out how to enter & see other great content from Young Feminist Wire!
We posted this to share the opportunity to contribute to the production of knowledge by girls! Enjoy.
