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Anais Nin, French writer,1903-1977

Gaia & Yara

by Margie Thompson | August 19, 2019 | Centro Comunitário de Buceo Embajadores y Embajadoras del Mar, Costa Rica, Independent journalism, Life lessons | 0 Comments

by Tara Roberts Her name is Gaia, and she is the mother. Her name is Yara, and she is the daughter. Mother and daughter have a symbiotic, close, complicated relationship. Their love for the ocean is one of the things that binds them together. The mother wanted to be a...

They’re terrified — but is it “credible fear”?

by Margie Thompson | December 21, 2016 | Immigration, Independent journalism, United States | 0 Comments

It’s like being totally lost in a dark forest with enormous twisted trees that are constantly moving and growing, blocking the way. Women mostly from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are fleeing horrendous violence in their countries out of desperation and terror...

Report by a feminist journalist from the US-Mexico Border #1

by Margie Thompson | July 31, 2018 | Immigration, Independent journalism, Mexico-US border, United States | 0 Comments

By Kathy Bougher Kathy Bougher is a journalist, correspondent for ESCRIBANA, feminist activist, and educator who has traveled throughout Central America working with women’s groups in the region on reproductive rights and other social justice issues. She spent several...

The Endometriosis Diaries, Part I: If Pain Could Speak

by Margie Thompson | August 1, 2018 | Health & reproductive rights, Independent journalism, Life lessions | 0 Comments

By Nadia Kaneva Nadia is a woman, author and scholar who has written a series of blogs entitled "The Endometriosis Diaries" about her own painful and frustrating experiences of diagnosis and treatment. We present Part One of the series here, and the rest can...

Puerto Rico: Majority of legal complaints in “post Hurricane María” devastation based on gender violence

by Margie Thompson | October 27, 2017 | Climate change, Health & reproductive rights, Independent journalism, Puerto Rico, Violence Against Women | 0 Comments

María Suárez Toro ESCRIBANA October 19, 2017 442 cases of requests for protection orders for gender violence under Law 54 have been filed since Hurricane María hit the island on September 20, 2017. Women activists are stepping forward in support of women in...