Delhi, day one. Breakfast with the rock stars of the feminist community here - Sunita Dhar (director of Jagori), Sonali Khan (director of Breakthrough India), Radhika Khajuria (program director of WomenPowerConnect) and Dr. Abhijit Das, one of the founders of MenEngage! Then Abhijit (who says dont call me Dr. Das), along with my Embassy hosts, brings me to perform Voices of Men at Hindu College. They have huge banners up advertising the show, and they fill a 5-700 seater auditorium. Only problem is, the temp in the auditorium is about 100 degrees - backstage is almost 120. I almost pass out and they bring me this disgusting salty drink that I force down - its like Popeyes spinach - I go on and perform the show. At the end, Abhijit says he got more than 125 people who filled out a form, saying they were interested in maybe attending the second international MenEngage symposium, right there at that college! I would love to come back for that symposium myself - wish I had attended the one in Rio in 2009. After that, we had a discussion with staff and volunteers from feminist organizations on engaging men. They said it was helpful, so Im sending them my slides from the PowerPoint. Cristy Cardinal, their favorite tool was the pyramid! which of course I credited you/HAVEN/Northeastern for. Two journalist interviews, then a lovely snack/dinner/talk/walk with Angie Marie!!! and finally meeting Tom Kaster. Both are coming to the performance tomorrow night - Angie might join me for breakfast tomorrow morning, and for a visit with a group working to help acid attack victims. Gnight!
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:43:03 +0000