A few words from Latanya:
“I appreciated the time in Bellagio and the coaching I received from colleagues at the Bellagio Center.”
Quote from The Everyday Feminist:
“A mother-daughter duo came into the legal clinic in Zwelihle township, close to Hermanus in the Western Cape of South Africa, a community of more than 100,000 people. Both were stunningly gorgeous. The 11-year-old daughter, Nomani, wore a school uniform, and her mother donned a hot pink head wrap that accentuated her strong facial features. As we sat in the legal clinic, housed among the rows of aluminum shacks with the beautiful Indian Ocean in the distance, Nomani told me her story.
The previous year, she’d been caught for the second, maybe third, time having a cigarette with her friends on her school campus. They were all reprimanded and punished with four to eight flogs with a paddle or type of whip. After arguing unsuccessfully for a different “sentence,” Nomani received her whipping with courage and trepidation. She had been through this before and tried to be strong.
However, it was painful and, as she turned in the middle of her head teacher’s flogging, she was hit on other parts of her body, including her face. A year later, the scar on her left cheek was a reminder of the violence she’d endured in a school setting.”
Synopsis:
In “The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact-Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever,” Global Fund for Women President and CEO Latanya Mapp Frett shows how grassroots feminists are changing the world — and what we can all do to support them. The book includes exclusive interviews with well-known activists like Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, alongside unsung women committed to transforming their communities and advancing movements — what she calls everyday feminists. She delivers a powerful exploration of the factors that make a feminist social movement impactful in its place and time.
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The January 2025 Bellagio Bulletin highlights stories from Warren Evans, Alice Hill, Karen Florini, Atsango Chesoni, Amitava Kumar, Vibha Galhotra and Elise Bernhardt, all engaged in work that deepens our relationships with the planet, society and one another.
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