THE SQUEAKY WHEEL PRESENTS PUSHY WOMEN A bicycle training program for women from the Moreland community.
The Squeaky Wheel will train up to 20 women from the Fawkner community to learn how to ride a bicycle in order to engage and stay involved in cycling as a form of active transport in the long run. The Squeaky Wheel will hold weekly two hour sessions in consultation with the women considering their availabilities, child care opportunities and skill levels. The Squeaky Wheel will develop a fleet of 5 bicycles for the women to use and practice on between sessions and during the training.
The Squeaky Wheelis a not for profit producing and advocacy organisation celebrating bicycles as vehicles for change. They work in partnership with individuals, councils, commercial and cultural organisations to present bicycle tours, training, valet parking, campaigns and programming.
LA-based artist Lia Halloran serenades the spirit of science-inspired art through this early imaging technique in a poetic project titled Your Body is a Space That Sees — a cyanotype celebration of women in astronomy, whose discoveries and contributions to understanding the universe date back to antiquity yet remain largely obscure.
female:pressure is launching an awareness and solidarity campaign for the canton of #Rojava (located in northern Syria), where women participate on all levels of decision making and building a new society from scratch, with built-in social, racial and ethnic justice, religious freedom, ecological principles and gender equality.
With a series of music, media and sound art to listen, dance and fight to, we would like to send our love and strength to these women and spread a positive message in support of their efforts.
We are calling for participation and submission of works. The work must be related and critically deal with the topic of #Rojava; otherwise there are no restrictions. Everybody is welcome!
Please submit your works via Internet Archive or any other way which can be embedded and distributed online such as Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Tumblr, Vimeo, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter or others.
IMPORTANT: please tag everything with #femalepressure for #rojava #revolution #solidarity
Spread and share the cause.
Send an informal email with the link to your submission to: rojava@femalepressure.net
This is how the submissions will be collected by a working team.
The final publication is planned for International Women’s Day on 8 March 2016.
Deadline is 15th of January 2016.
female:pressure is looking for Kurdish musicians, sound curators and cultural organisers to collaborate.
Founded in 1998, female:pressure is an international network of over 1,600 female artists from 66 countries in the broader fields of electronic music and arts. http://www.femalepressure.net/
In the rural pockets of India, a lifesaving device may be hidden in plain sight.
Across the country, it’s not uncommon to see women sporting a small dot on their foreheads between their eyebrows. The mark is known as a bindi. And it’s a Hindu tradition that dates to the third and fourth centuries.
The bindi is traditionally worn by women for religious purposes or to indicate that they’re married. But today the bindi has also become popular among women of all ages, as a beauty mark. And it comes in all colors, shapes and sizes.
Now an initiative called Life Saving Dot is trying use bindis to deliver an essential micronutrient to women who might not be getting enough.
Iodine is needed to make thyroid hormones. Too little can cause a number of problems, such as depression, weight gain and cognitive impairment. During pregnancy, iodine is critical for brain development of the fetus. Deficiencies can lead to mental problems for the child or even death.
In India, about 350 million people are at risk for iodine deficiency because they live in areas where crops are grown in iodine-deprived soil. And about a third of families don’t have access to iodized salt.
That’s the idea behind a new campaign from the Neelvasant Medical Foundation and Research Centre, a nonprofit based in Nashik, India. The organization worked with the creative ad agency Grey Group Singapore to come up with a way to coat the back of bindis with iodine. The hope is that the iodine will adsorb into a woman’s skin as she wears it, says Dr. Prachi Pawar, who’s leading the project at the nonprofit.
