Header by Rory Midhani
Feminism is alive and well, my friends. And I’ve got 95 photos from across the planet to prove it. (Click on them to find the source articles about the protests and movements pictured!)
Including an image of a protest or images from a specific region doesn’t indicate any sort of endorsement of that region or movement’s politics — this is just about showcasing that the fight for women’s rights and gender equality is raging on around the world.
Africa
Cameroon
Democratic Republic of Congo
Egypt
Kenya
Liberia
Nigeria
Senegal
South Africa
Asia
Afghanistan
China
India
Israel
Japan
Nepal
Pakistan
Palestine
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
North America
Canada
Cuba
El Salvador
Guatemala
Haiti
Mexico
Nicaragua
United States
South America
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Peru
Venezuela
Australia
Europe
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Poland
Russia
Spain
Turkey*
*Turkey is technically on two continents. Geography, you slay me. I chose Europe, but some of these photos may have technically been taken in Asia.
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Love all those pics. This is undisputable proof that women all over the world are united over similar issues.
As a side note; yes, Turkey is on two continents. The first picture is from a demonstration in which I actually participated. And the second one is from a get together with CYDD, an NGO that aims to provide education for underprivilaged girls. Both pictures were actually taken in the European part of the country, despite the fact that 85% of our country is situated in Asia.
yessss so glad i was (technically) correct!
Aww no South-East Asia!
Malaysia:
Singapore:
Indonesia:
Thailand:
Cambodia:
Brunei gets me protests by Hollywood people AGAINST the Sultan, but nothing in that country specifically…
Philippines:
Vietnam:
Laos:
Myanmar/Burma:
East Timor:
yes yes yes yes yes yes THANK YOU
well this was a wonderful addition
I want to be that Cambodian woman when I grow up. A+ badassery
Thanks for the added photo. No one should be4 left out. Stand strong ladies, many of us men stand with you.
I absolutely love this compilation of photos.
My site actually focuses on feminism around the world, so I really appreciated this article.
I added it to my weekly recommendations: http://www.femvocates.com/media-recommendations-august-27-2015/
so good to see women around the world fighting for their rights!
(On a sidenote: Russia is also on two continents, geographically the Ural Mountains are seen as the border.)
These are so powerful. Bookmarking.
Wow
This is so beautiful and powerful and inspiring! I want to wallpaper the world with these pictures.
I love this so much, thanks Carmen!
This post is fucking awesome
What an inspiring article! Now I need to find the time to go through and click on all the photos/read about all the issues.
The day is young and yet I’ve already cried three times. This is a genuinely inspiring thing/I have a lot of feelings about it – thanks a bunch!
Isn’t it fascinating/so telling/awful how many signs are in English in countries where English isn’t the (primary) national language/historic national language…
Still, so many of these are so wonderful.
This is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen all year.
This post just made my day! Thank you for all the wonderful, inspiring images of strong women from around the world. Things like this make me want to try harder/do more in my own small corner of the world.
I’m crying.
I love this so much. Exactly what we need. Most beautiful pictures I have ever seen!
http://www.femvocates.com
A site advocating for Feminism around the world
Well, I’ve just learned there are some brazilians who prefer to protest holding signs in spanish. How weird is that?!
I logged in just to comment on that. I’m Brazilian, and that picture is definitely not from Brazil. Brazilians might protest in English to call out attention (or follow trends, as happens sometimes with French) but never, never, never, never in Spanish. That picture is bothering me a lot.
I really loved this – thank you for posting. And thanks s well to Creatrix above for the South East Asia stuff, that Cambodia especially photo is so great.
My one quibble is the FEMEN one from Ukraine. I know they’re feminists, but… it’s also a pic of a woman who’s young, thin, white, tanned, blond, fairly heavily made up and naked but for red undies and platform peeptoes, and whose body is being used as a canvas for an unrelated political message. For me it undermined the effect of all the rest of this a little. On the other hand, I know nothing’s ever perfect, and many people would disagree with me on this.
And even with that – one of my favourite things I’ve seen in ages. Made me really grateful for my amazing sisters all around the world.
Why no photo of the kurdish women fighting for freedom against ISIS ? I think they deserve at least to be mentioned in the list…
I love a lot of these photos, and agree with those calling for the photos of the female Kurdish soldiers fighting ISIS. Some of these are very old, though, and more than a little off-putting. Winnie Mandela’s photo is from 1997, and she’s been widely discredited for personal involvement in cases of kidnap, torture and murder of men, women and children in South Africa.
(I’ve commented in a reply above but just in case you guys haven’t seen it.) That picture with signs in Spanish is not from Brazil. In fact, most Brazilians get rather offended when people assume we speak Spanish (me included). I clicked the post very excited to see what you got for my country (happy to see Marcha das Vadias included!) but this was mostly very disappointing.
WOMEN ARE AMAZING
These are women protesting. To label them all as feminists is extremely incorrect
You gorgoteo Argentina, where almost 1 million people took the streets two months ago agains femicide. It’s a really large movement, do your reaserch!
These are not “rebel girls”; these are Rebel Women. I would caution you not to diminish their causes by calling them girls in the title. The rebel girl has grown up. Thank you for compiling such a powerful Montage of photos.
ok..ok, now go and make me a sandwich.
fuck offfffffffff
A violent act committed against one woman anywhere is a violent act committed against all women everywhere.
Yeees
Please add Argentina!! We have some important feminist movements here too, and as Pilar says, hundreds of people protested here a few months ago, it was a huge national protest in honour of all our killed women all over the country in the last years and against femicide and men power abuse over women. We’re having lots of problems here too, the number of killed women (probably because of our recent embracement in fields like work, politics, science, etc)is increasing every day. Every day we’re having a girl killed, an adolescent murdered or abused, women that are captured and being force to prostitute and the goverments do nothing. Movements like “La marcha de las putas”, “Acción respeto: por una calle libre de acoso” are getting popular because we can barely walk in the streets without being verbally harassed by men. Do some research and add us, the world need to know, because we need help.
I’m proud that the mydressmychoice photos made it here , I think its the only international blog that cared to even put this , I’m the founder of the my dress my choice movement and proud that feminism gave me the courage to stand up and fight for Kenyan women who face many forms of violence , feminism is rising in Africa , feminism is liberating women in Kenya and beyond !!!
Ale się uśmiałam. Hej, dziewczyny, naprawdę tak myślicie czy dla jaj torobicie?
I’m proud of myself for recognizing this as Polish and being able to pick out two of the words, but I went to google translate for the rest and it is failing me. Unless you really are saying, “But the I laughed . Hey girls, you really think so, or for the eggs torobicie?”