Womanhood & International Relations

New #Podcast Episode! 💜 Yesterday we had our latest webinar on feminism and anti-racism movements in Argentina with Colectiva Identidad Marron, inspiring three important questions on the value we place on ourselves, our construction of race and the relationship we have with change. In this episode we explore: ✨Are we aware of our own identity construction since birth? ✨How racism, colonization...

New  #Podcast  Episode! 💜 After the UN General Assembly ran its course, are we finding ourselves amidst a "new" world order or a "new" mindset shift about how to run the world? In this episode we explore: ✨What is our perception of a "new world order"? ✨Why UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres kept warning the international community about an upcoming Great Fracture? ✨How the US-Chi...

New  #Podcast  Episode! 💜 How can we unlearn the personal and social taboos and myths around our own periods? In this episode we explore: ✨What is the connection between menstruation and human rights? ✨How menstrual hygiene is connected to WASH project? ✨Is there a spiritual and earthly component to our menstrual cycle? ✨Why we should not glorify a unique menstrual product? ✨How ab...

New  #Podcast  Episode 💜Why are human rights seen as separate from environmental rights? In this episode we explore: ✨What is the Escazú Agreement? What does it seek to solve? ✨Why should we pay attention to socio-environmental conflicts all around the world? ✨Why some governments in Latin America and the Caribbean regions, where two-thirds of the world's socio-environmental conflict...

New  #Podcast  Episode 💜How can we shift from realist to feminist view of an IR case study if we are excluding ourselves from the conversation? In this episode we explore: ✨What is realist view of the UAE-Israel normalization ties talks? A US Foreign Policy approach. ✨What are the power dynamics at play on the recent development of Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the decentralization...

Why not all women are valued the same in Latin America and the Caribbean regions? In 2017, I began a third independent documentary project to showcase the different levels of gender based violence women were suffering in this part of the world. Almost 700 testimonials and 18 countries surveyed later, we are preparing for the launch of the results. Here I share with you the journey that has changed...

An exploration of what feminist peace would look like - international law way.  Join the LSE WPS, WILPF, UKRI upcoming free event here:  https://www.lse.ac.uk/women-peace-security/events/Current-Events/Visions-of-Feminist-Peace Join the Ashoka Changemakers Summit on Gender (September 7th-11th) here: http://bit.ly/registrogenero

As we are finishing the pre-production of the upcoming virtual summit we are co-organizing with Ashoka Mexico and Central America, here I share with you an interview we did a couple of weeks ago with conflict resolution specialist Kimberly Loh on her new book Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen From The Heart. Written by Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson and Loh, the b...

Can we overcome the "need" of a "standard way" of leading? Can we shift the way we socially construct local, regional and international relations? In this episode we explore: What is hegemonic masculinity? How are we culturally pre-conditioned to legitimize and maintain it?  What is hegemonic femininity and how does it plays in favor of hegemonic masculinity?  What cherishing figures lik...

New  #Podcast  Episode! 💜 International Relations is not a field neutral to gender, it is blind to it. How can we denormalize it? In this episode we explore: ✨What is Feminism Theory in IR? What does it study and why is it important? ✨How can we overcome this Anglo-centric, Euro-centric, Andro-centric way of thinking the world? ✨Can we find valuable knowledge on Feminist Theory appli...

An interview with The World is Watching co-founder Vannary Kong and Director of Outreach Jennifer Zhang. In this episode we explore: ✨How the World is Watching - Black Lives Matter organization became a reality? ✨What is their International Declaration’s goals and how can global support for this movement can help change structural and racial violence in the US and other countries? ✨How can supp...

New #Podcast Episode! 💜On August 6th, a global virtual tribute will take place to commemorate that #nuclearweapons are #stillhere and so... are the #survivors. In this episode we explore:  10 hours of livestream programming from international artists & scholars In this episode we explore: ✨How far we've come since the nuclear attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? ✨What is the MidHeaven Ne...

New  #Podcast  Episode! 💜 Are we believing without expecting things will actually change for the better? A message for these uncertain times. In this episode we explore: ✨What is hope? ✨Can we talk about hope in International Relations or is it a field too..."neutral", "unspiritual" and "dehumanized"? ✨What are we hoping to change at a personal and international level? Are we believi...

New  #Podcast  Episode! 💜 🇵🇷Are we ever truly free from the chains of oppression? As people, as citizens and as women? A look into the experience of #PuertoRico , case study. In this episode we explore: ✨What is the colonial mindset? ✨How internalized is the oppression within our education, economic, political and social orders and systems? ✨How inferiority plays out on people and ho...

Are we externalizing our wounded feminine and masculine in our protests against the State? In this episode we explore: ✨What is our connection with the femininity and the masculine within us? ✨What can we learn from systemic psychology’s take to how we process our personal wounds to the collective level? ✨Which narratives on our femininity and women’s deities have we allowed to enter our magnet...

An Interview with Sandra Aceng, program officer of Women of Uganda Network and Global Voices contributor. She is also the coordinator of WIAG, a coalition that advocates for integration of gender perspectives in ICT policy. You can follow her work on https://wougnet.org/ In this episode we explore: ✨What’s the status of freedom of expression in #Uganda? How has the pandemic increased online viole...

Can we break the stigma on people's response to pandemic, humanitarian and climate crisis? Let's explore.

A case for an intersectional approach

An interview with Marissa Conway, co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy in the UK. 

New Episode! 👩🏻‍💻Today I share with you a reflection on mass media's role on covering trauma, racial injustice and downplaying the rising social & state inequalities around the world.   ✨What we're feeding of?   ✨Are we aware of the current shift from COVID-19 fearful narratives to "anger", "rage", "fury" taking over the streets in protests?  ✨Why framing photos and videos...

A look on how much of our understanding of our womanhood experience inside/out is "truly" our own.

Economic and social stresses, national lockdowns and restrictions of movement have dramatically increased the number of women and girls facing abuse at home. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has asked today for a “global ceasefire” on #domesticviolence . Today we will release a new #podcast episode interviewing #datingviolence expert @adaalvarezconde .  www.nataliabonilla.org

Questions and topics on the role actors play in this pandemic, media representations, social inequality and women's visibility and exclusion from health and decision-making processes