http://www.womeninandbeyond.org analyzing and changing the status of women in households, prisons and cities Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:12:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en James Kessler is a justice architect. That means he works in criminal justice architecture. He is a senior principal at Hellmuth, Obata + Kassebaum, Inc, better known as HOK, one of the largest architectural firms in the world. Here’s how they describe justice architecture: “As an integral part of society ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=698 Pakistani born Azbaa Dar is being held in Yarl’s Wood. On Monday of this week she reported, dutifully, to the Liverpool office of the UK Border Agency. She has been applying for asylum for nine years, and as part of the process, she has to `visit’ the UKBA offices regularly. ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=696 Who is your audience? by Zanele Muholi My audience is not here. My audience is those people who look at two lesbian women in a photo and say that it is a shock: ‘Oh my God, don’t show that!’ That is my audience. I don’t know who my audience is. I know that I have ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=694 On November 20th 2008, as reported by George Washington University’s student newspaper, the Hatchet, a Latino worker installing windows in a GW residence hall was killed after a fall from the 7th floor. The worker, Rosaulino Montano, worked for Engineered Construction Products, a window subcontractor for primary contractor Clark Construction. ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=692 I have a dirty little secret. Well, perhaps it’s not so little. And maybe, it’s not that dirty. But it’s something I like to keep secret. You see, my parents, for as long as I have been alive, have employed domestic workers. I don’t want to self-flagellate in public, but ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=688 unmade beds, dirty clothes, the stench of yesterday’s garbage in my nose and my man wonders why i don’t love him no more well, he should read this poem she’ll speak of my grief of how I toss and turn toss and turn wondering why why? HE took me from the afric’s shore i died that day you shackled me with your shame violated my ancestral rite of chastity only to ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=685 In my previous posting, I looked at testimony of Everlyn Masha Koya, a twenty two year old sex worker-turned-peer educator from Isiolo, Kenya. Ms Koya’s failure to persuade women who have children to leave the sex trade led me to reflect upon contradiction between women’s economic contributions to nation-state and ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=683 We thought collecting black gold would make us truly free You do not blame a woman whose belly has been empty for fifty years If she scoops the sand onto which the gari has spilled Hoping to sift through later So as soon as we saw the tanker tipping over Agonizing Slow Like a tortoise that had ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=681 The 2010 FIFA World Cup is drawing to an end. On the pitch, it has been filled with thrilling moments and surprising turns. Off the pitch … not so much. Ever since South Africa won the bid to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the government has been feeding promises and ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=679 ‘Mother I will make you cry today’ (On June 30th 2010, Asif Rather age nine ran out of his home in Baramulla in Kashmir to look for his older brother. As he left, he told his mother ‘I am going to make you cry today’. Minutes later he fell victim to shooting by the ... http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=677