January 2019 – Page 3 – Bridge Agents

The Theory and Practice of the Kurdish Women’s Movement: An Interview in Diyarbakir

January 4, 2019 Bridge Agents

(OpenDemocracy) – One of the undisputed achievements of the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Syria is the advancement of women in social, economic, and political domains of life. The theoretical underpinning of the movement’s efforts to achieve gender equality lies in the concept of jineology elaborated by the movement’s leader Abdullah Ocalan. Placing the liberation of women at the center of his theory, Ocalan identified monotheistic religions, the nation-state, and capitalism as three roots of women’s oppression and traced the emergence of gender hierarchies as far back as the Neolithic era. Together with the focus…

Hidden Women of History: Théroigne de Méricourt, Feminist Revolutionary

January 3, 2019 Bridge Agents

(Conversation) – Anne-Josèphe Théroigne or Terwagne (1762–1817) was born at Marcourt, a village south of Liège in modern Belgium. From a comfortable farming family, Théroigne had a remarkably unsettled life after her mother died when she was five years old, living with relatives who provided only erratic access to education. While working as a governess she lived and studied singing in London and Paris, but also survived through unhappy relationships with far older, wealthy men. Presumed portrait of Théroigne de Méricourt, painted by by Antoine Vestier, 1788-89, Public Domain, Wikimedia…

To Pay for Trauma Centers, State Program Sinks Thousands of Drivers Into Deep Debt

January 2, 2019 Bridge Agents

Texas, United States (TexasTribune) – On a Friday afternoon in late June, Cassandra Pappas showed up at a municipal building in northeast Austin with hopes she would be able to reclaim a final piece of her life after six years of sobriety. Pappas, 35, was there for an event called a Driver’s License Recovery Clinic that she had heard about through her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor. A new program run by the City of Austin and the legal advocacy group Texas Fair Defense Project, the clinic is aimed at helping people whose…

Our Most Read Stories from 2018

January 1, 2019 Bridge Agents

(Greed) – Let’s start 2019 with a quick look back at 2018. Out of curiosity, we went back to see what our most widely read articles were, we wanted to share those with you: Number 5 – Source The REAL Reason For the Coming Wave of Bans and Censorship: What You Aren’t Being Told – Carey Wedler took a look back at the history of censorship and dug a little deeper into the current wave of bans on social media. While we hope this is not a trend that will continue…