#32-23 Saunas and Finnish women’s culture
Finnish scholar Kaarina Kailo’s recent book Sauna – on the rich history of women and saunas in her country – reminded WINGS of
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Politics
#26-23 The Nordic Model vs. the Sex Trade … in Canada, Sweden, and the world
In September 2023, a Superior Court judge in Ontario ruled that Canada’s 2014 law outlawing the purchase of sex did
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#25-23 Jobs for the Girls … What do you see when you look in the mirror?
This audio documentary produced in Australia by Norie Neumark features women who don’t fit the anglo stereotype of blond, Barbie-like beauty, discussing
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#24-23 Gaslighting and Philosophy … It’s not all in your mind
Prof. Manne vividly describes the plot of the play from which two films titled Gaslighting were derived. The husband will not brook
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#21-23 African Foods Revival … Returning to what grows well
Summary: A movement is afoot to recover traditional African food plants, preserve them, and disseminate the knowledge about how to grow
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#20-23 Vanastree Seed Savers … A women-run collective in South India
Vanastree.org is a women-run seed saving collective and agroecology training location in the Malnad region of the Western Ghats in
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#19-23 Haitian Women’s Radio … REFRAKA in times of disaster
Rezo Fanm Radyo Kominote Ayisyen (REFRAKA) is the Women’s Community Radio Network of Haiti. Since the devastating earthquake that destroyed
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#16-23 Kenya Tax Attacks … Violence against protests about cost of food
Faced with record high foreign debt, Kenya’s government passed a new finance bill to raise taxes. Part of it has
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#14-23 Women, War, and Wikileaks … Women know imperialism from all sides
What do you learn when you pay attention to the women embroiled with the action around torture, imperialism and war?
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#11-23 Naomi Klein on the hubris of geo-engineering
As the effects of climate change become more obvious across the world, the idea of doctoring earth’s atmosphere to reduce
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