By Mary Ellen Dowd A trade union can be defined as a collective of workers, banding together to improve conditions and pay, address safety concerns, discrimination or inequalities, provide work-related services and give voice to workers in an industry or work place. Unions have protected workers from unfair treatment and harsh conditions since the late…
By Sneha Singh Illustration by Magdalena Xochitl Burtnik Urueta A pregnant OnlyFans star was recently in the news for planning to live-stream a birth for $12,000, and also offered to sell her breast milk. 39-year-old Carla Bellucci said that it was lot of money to refuse. It was certainly one of the most distasteful news stories…
By Jessica Couloute Illustration by Magdalena Xochitl Burtnik Urueta Part of illustration: ‘A Woman’s Work Is Never Done’, See Red Women’s Workshop. Reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Text in Russian reads “Down with kitchen slavery! Give us a new way of life!” Women make invaluable contributions to the workforce. Whether they…
Illustration photo creator Alberto Giuliani Illustration by Magdalena Xochitl Burtnik Urueta It’s been over a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and we, as a people, have seen the world change, right down to our work. Whether you lost your job due to the economic shutdown, you now wear…
By Jessica Couloute Illustration by Magdalena Xochitl Burtnik Urueta Picture this: a woman dressed in a blue-collar uniform with an employment badge affixed, hair pinned up and wrapped in a red polka-dotted handkerchief, with her sleeves rolled up to expose a flexed bicep proving that, “We,” as in women, “Can Do It!”. This iconic poster…
By Mary Ellen Dowd Illustration by Magdalena Xochitl Burtnik Urueta Photo by Marian Noguera The term “women’s work” has been spun throughout history to refer to the most undesirable of domestic duties. Today, when we hear the phrase, our minds naturally wander to things like childbearing, dishwashing and laundry. In 2021, it’s increasingly clear that…
Illustration by Magdalena Xochitl Burtnik Urueta Photo by Lica Stein From time immemorial, people greeted May with glee, the warmth of the rays of the spring sun, the chirping of birds, the first greenery, the first flowers. Spring always brings with it a feeling of renewal, generates bright dreams and hopes in the soul of…
By Jessica Couloute Illustration by Magdalena Xochitl Burtnik Urueta When women come together, remarkable things happen. Many turning points in history can be attributed to the collective power of women. In the 1950 in Hanover, New Mexico, U.S., members of Local 890 of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW, or Mine-Mill)…
To celebrate World Water Day 2021 we would like to share a photo essay and some background information from Cameroon about the current situation with water in the south of the country. Text and photo by Beko’o B’Evina Marguerite Solange Water, they often say, is life. You will all agree on the veracity of this…
It has been a busy International Women’s Day this year with a community project culminating in a zine, a group project by the participants of our latest documentary photography workshops – members of the Cameroon Association of Women in Media, as well as a small group project by past workshop participants! Enjoy this short slideshow…