Category Archives: gendered violence

Thoughts on International Women’s Day

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What does women empowerment mean? Thoughts from Kathmandu on International Women’s Day (late post). An early bad taste about International Women’s Day from when I was about nineteen left such an impression on me that I swore from then on that I would never do “Women’s Day”. It was at a famous international NGO where […]

Fight back

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Zombie mommy diaries. On physical bullying. My daughter recently asked me; ‘mommy were you ever bullied by boys when you were my age (four)?’ I don’t have memories from when I was four years old but I do remember being teased and bullied by two boys in class when I was about 7. What I […]