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Day 2: Women's History Month 2020Suong Nguyet Anh Vietnamese Poet, Editor
During the Modern Period of Vietnamese history, Vietnam was undergoing a cultural shift brought about by French colonialism. In early 1908, the colonizers "either jailed or neutralized most Vietnamese scholars of anti-colonial tendencies" and moved to promote more politically palatable alternatives. One editor during this time, Pham Quynh sought to maintain the balance between these western ideals while the old ethical standards declined.
One of his measures was to create Vietnam's first periodical for women named Nu Gioi Chung (Women's Bell). He named poet Suong Nguyet Anh the editor. She promised to avoid political talk. "Emphasis in her periodical would be given, she said, to upholding moral standards, to instruction in daily tasks, to promotion of commerce and handicraft production and the general "expansion of contacts among people."'
Suong Nguyet Anh had to thread the needle of maintaining conservative ideals while also accepting the progressiveness behind her position. "The fact that a woman had taken editorship of a major periodical, however briefly, provided concrete impetus for other upper-class matrons to venture beyond the family." She was a traditionally inclined woman, (a widow who vowed never to marry again upholding the widow image), but inspired so much non-traditional behavior, so much that male traditionalists (French) began to take offense and published rebuttals to try to close Nu Gioi Chung down.
She is also known for her work with the Dong Du Movement, which encouraged students to travel abroad to learn to prepare them for when their country would regain independence.
https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C6%B0...
https://books.google.com/books?id=s7U...
It's a new year and with it a new list of amazing female leaders in the business, scientific, and arts communities. Each day will bring an introduction to female trailblazers, national icons, and women impassioned to do more. I share these names with you as testament that women have been making history for years. May the stories from the 2020's Women's History Month inspire you to new heights.
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Day 1: Women's History Month 2020
Heidy Quah Malaysian Youth Humanitarian
At only 18 years of age, Heidy Quah is founder and director of Refuge for the Refugees, a non-profit organization that seeks to raise awareness regarding the status of refugees in Malaysia as well as provide education for refugee children.
It all started when after searching for volunteering opportunities, Heidy and her best friend Andrea Prisha decided to teach English for four months at a Burmese refugee school in Sungei Besi, a town in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Heidy says: “I was going to pursue higher education, but here were children who were going to be robbed of their only access to education [when I leave].”
Now in its fifth year, Refuge for the Refugees supports and empowers 35 refugee schools, two halfway homes, and a refugee vocational training school across Malaysia and Myanmar, ensuring and fighting for quality education for all.
In addition to raising awareness and providing education and entrepreneurship skills for refugees, Heidy works on the ground to rescue refugees from detention camps and human trafficking rings. Her work with refugees has been recognized by Queen Elizabeth II, who awarded her the Queen’s Young Leader Award in 2017.
https://www.vitalvoices.org/people/he...
http://refugefortherefugees.org/
https://ymi.today/2018/11/heidy-quah-...
Holly wrote: "Evgeny wrote: "My own personal experiences with pregnancy, childbirth and mothering couldn't be more different than what is described in this study."Makes sense Holly. The study was very, very tiny. Only 89 people were surveyed and of them only 3.5 people had the condition. This study also was trying to show that post-partum has the same effects on the brain as PTSD.
But it's either a failure of the study or from the journalists reporting to see how the researchers collected their data. Were the 89 women's brain's scanned? Was this all verbal survey?
What sort of conditions did they have prior to childbirth? Did the study being in Israel and everything going on in the middle east have an effect? What does " a classic set of psychological traumas mean? Is that "terrorist seizure, rape, a car accident or a natural disaster" again, one doesn't need to have these items happen to them to have high levels of anxiety, especially with the idea of bringing a child into the world.
I think more research needs to be done before we think that postpartum = PTSD.
This was an interesting perspective of male privilege. https://medium.com/fourth-wave/male-p...
I especially appreciate how the author ties it back to addiction. The majority of recovering alcoholics will tell you that the first time someone suggested to them that they might be an alcoholic or that they needed help, they were unable to hear it. The most common first symptom of addiction is denial.
And I would like to point out that while the author is using male privilege, I personally believe that we can put in any example here; able bodied, skinny, heterosexuals, racists, classicists, nationalis, etc. Any place where one homogeneous group of people declared themselves superior over another there is going to be an invisible bias that is nurtured and supported through the community you were lucky enough to be born into.
Let me know what you think!
Mathemilda wrote: "What was the hate speech? It was never quoted here. The link from the first comment on this thread has the quote. More importantly it also explains why it's offensive to the trans community.
Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories. Let's use this thread to discuss the short story: Difficult at PartiesThis is the last story in the collection. What did you think?
What new aspect of female life was Machado explaining with this story?
Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories. Let's use this thread to discuss the short story: The Resident. What are your thoughts on this story?
Do you agree with what Machado's stance on a woman's right to be? Why or why not?
Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories. Let's use this thread to discuss the short story: Eight BitesWhat are your thoughts on this story?
What do you think Machado was saying about Fat Shaming?
This story also comes right after "Real Women have Bodies" what do you think about the placement of these two stories?
Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories. Let's use this thread to discuss the short story: Real Women have Bodies?What did you think of this story?
How would you categorize this one?
Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories. Let's use this thread to discuss the short story: Especially HeinousWhat did you think of this story?
Machado wrote this like summaries to a TV show. How does this choice help or hinder the story and or the themes?
Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories. Let's use this thread to discuss the short story: Mothers. What did you think of this story?
It plays with the concept of same sex marriage, abuse, and the loss of a dream.
Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories. Let's use this thread to discuss the short story: InventoryWhat did you think about this story?
This one was written in fragments. How did this choice shape the story?
Her Body and Other Parties is a collection of short stories. Let's use this thread to discuss the short story: The Husband Stitch. What did you think?
What is your reaction to the story and the characters?
What did you love or hate about this?
Kaung has a deft hand at building this new narrative world and embedding in it aspects of our own. These parallels are what moves the narrative from a plucky contest winner to the brutality and dehumanization found within war. What references did you notice while reading Kuang's The Poppy War?
Great article!It’s difficult for us to imagine femininity itself — empathy, vulnerability, listening — as strong. When I look at the world our stories have helped us envision and then erect, these are the very qualities that have been vanquished in favor of an overwrought masculinity.
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Butler and other writers like Ursula Le Guin, Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood did not employ speculative fiction to colonize other planets, enslave new life-forms, or extract alien minerals for capital gains only to have them taken at gunpoint by A.I. robots. These women used the tenets of genre to reveal the injustices of the present and imagine our evolution.
What did you think about Carmen Maria Machado's speculative short story collection Her Body and Other Parties?Discussion surrounding each story can be found here:
-The Husband Stitch
-Inventory
-Mothers
-Especially Heinous
-Real Women Have Bodies
-Eight Bites
-The Resident
-Difficult at Parties
Use this thread to discuss the full book. What did you think? Which story was your favorite and why?
What were your thoughts about R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War?Was this your first time reading it, did you read it a while ago, or did you reread it?
Feb 08, 2020 04:43PM
Elyse wrote: "I'm confused because it's already February? When are we actually reading the books? I don't see threads set up."Hello Elyse.
What links are you looking for specifically?
The discussion folder is here
The pay it forward thread is here
These should all be visible on the Group Homepage, too.
Let me know if I forgot any.😊
-Pam
Done!Thanks DeNel!
