MIT Shows How to ‘Make the Breast Pump Not Suck’ for Women of Color
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From making Native American regalia more breastfeeding friendly to “smart” technologies, this weekend’s hack-a-thon goes above and beyond the breast pump.
indigenous women
Indigenous Women in Canada Reclaim Their Image in Photo Blog
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Tea and Bannock, a photo blog by and for indigenous women, has picked up photographers from across Canada and the United States. Its founder also sees it as an important way to communicate with the larger society.
Canada
Indigenous Designers Fuel Fashion Without Appropriation
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This aboriginal collective in Saskatchewan, Canada, is ready to advise shoppers about avoiding cultural appropriation faux pas. Many are single mothers and they’d also like your business. “We want to share our culture but we also want to make money.”
Aboriginal women
Mrs. Universe Calls Out Canada’s Neglect of Aboriginal Women
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Within days of becoming the first aboriginal woman to win this international pageant, the 25-year-old is calling out the Conservative party, which faces elections next month, for ignoring First Nations issues, including missing and murdered aboriginal women.
femicide
Latin American Indigenous Women Hold NYC Tribunal
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To puncture official indifference, Latin American indigenous women are staging a tribunal on the sidelines of a U.N. permanent forum “to push back the invisibility” about what they suffer. “The justice system really doesn’t work for us,” says one.
family planning
Mexican Indigenous Moms Pushed, Pulled by Fertility
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Rural Mexican women feel the push from the government to limit births and the pull of requests for sex from spouses who reject condoms and vasectomies, writes Vania Smith-Oka in this excerpt from “Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico.”
Abortion
1 Billion Rise on V-Day; S. Pacific Slashes Witch
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One Billion Rising event in Barcelona, Spain.
Politics
UN Women Wraps Up Far-Flung Listening Tour
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For months, the U.N.’s new superagency for women has been tapping advocates and academics around the globe for advice about how to shape the group’s first strategic plan, due out in June.