The story behind this months cover. We commissioned the artist Maria Maria Acha-Kutscher Indignadas to illustrate a protest by 28-year-old Brazilian journalist, Nana Queiroz, against rape culture. She struck a blow against victim-blaming last March when she posted a photo of herself topless with the words ‘Eu Não Mereço Ser Estuprada’ (‘I don’t deserve to be raped’) written across her body. It was her outraged response to a survey that claimed 65 per cent of Brazilians thought that a provocatively dressed woman deserved to be raped. The research institute later revised its figures down to 26 per cent – still a quarter of those polled. The post went viral, with thousands of women and men uploading their own pictures. Consequently, Queiroz met with President Dilma Rousseff and is helping to draft a document to outline how to educate schoolchildren in gender issues. See more at: newint.org/features/2014/07/01/keynote-feminist-spring/
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:30:00 +0000
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