G-Taw Zagar Wyne

How can we care for ourselves so that our physical and mental health does not deteriorate? What does self-care look like during a crisis situation? What can we do to have self-compassionate? What are ways to practices? In this episode, we simply discuss small steps we can take to develop self-compassionate and ways to sustain them. Listen to this episode to hear Psychologist Gabriella Phyu shares...

How do we feel when we hear the news about the fallen heroes during the revolutions? Why does that pain doesn't go away for a long time? Why do we blame ourselves for the loss we are facing? Who is actually responsible for them? This week, we talked about survivors' guilt and in what forms they appear in our day-to-day life and how can we be aware of them so that we can transform the persp...

How are children differently affected by the crisis now in Myanmar? How can parents play a role in helping them coping with the changes as well as the uncertainties? Psychologist Gabriella Phyu and feminist advocate Ma Nandar sat down and talked about significant roles parents or elderly play or can play in children's lives and how can they provide support to them so that they can express and...

What is loss? What is grief? How do we make sense of it during this political crisis? How can we accept and process them with healthy approaches? We are back here this week with you to talk about loss, grief including collective grieving that we, the Myanmar community as a whole are facing now. G-Taw Zagar Wyne Podcast started a series on mental health under the coup to discuss mental health issue...

What is happening to our mental health under the coup? How are we dealing? What are we feeling? How can we take care of ourselves? Listen to this podcast where Gabriella and Nandar talk about the mental health struggles during the coup. Since the coup took over Burma on 1st February, our mental and physical health has been degrading. G-Taw Zagar Wyne Podcast started a series on mental health under...

"Our culture still doesn't accept that women can survive and exist without a man in her life." Dr. Tin Mar Oo is a medical doctor, a feminist, and a single mother. She has been working in the areas of women's rights and gender equality for many years. As a feminist, she wrote articles on the issues related to women's rights violations in Myanmar. She also contributed her effo...

Hnaung Moe Thae works as a Digital Safety Officer in the Digital Rights Team at MIDO. Digital Rights Team implements a program for effective mitigation of digital threats in Myanmar during the election period. As a Digital Safety Officer, she is responsible for conducting risk assessments and training, handling incidents coming from our Digital Security Helpline. She also handles " Digital Te...

"I am most passionate to work for peace, development, dignity, and rights of the nation." B Esther Ze Naw B Esther Ze Naw is passionately focusing on Peace, Humanitarian, Ethnic Rights, and Dignity issues of the society. She also founded Mobile Library Foundation in 2012 with her friends to bring non-formal education activities through Mobile Libraries in Internally Displaced Peoples Cam...

In this episode, we met with Ma Ohnmar Aung, a legend aka G-Taw who is one of the founding members of Mandalar Yaung Sin that works towards gender equality and women empowerment across Myanmar. She also works at Marie Stopes International since 2008. She shared her sister's story of going through very traumatizing experiences in her marriage with the abusive and violent man and what that have...

Phoebe aka Hnin Zaw Thu is an artist who is fond of writing and singing since she was a child. She graduated from Sunway University, Malaysia in 2016 with Communication Degree. Currently, she is working as a freelance communication specialist while making music part-time. In this episode, we interviewed Phoebe to share with us about her journey of becoming an artist while still having a side job t...

"If you know what you want, please go for it and be stubborn about it." Phoebe aka Hnin Zaw Thu is an artist who is fond of writing and singing since she was a child. She graduated from Sunway University, Malaysia in 2016 with Communication Degree. Currently, she is working as a freelance communication specialist while making music part-time. In this episode, we interviewed Phoebe to sha...

"I started Citta Counsaltancy because I wanted to educate people on mental health." We sat down and did a live show with Ma Su Su Maung to talk about mental health education among Myanmar youth as well as the current situation on how they are dealing with the stress and panic. Su Su Maung is the Founder, CEO, and Principal Consultant. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Boar...

"We now have a 30% quota system for women participation in politics. When we say 30% of minimum participation, I take 100% as maximum participation. However, the sad truth is that we don't really have 30% of women's participation in politics. This shows Myanmar is still a deeply patriarchal society." This week's topic is Women & Politics discussed by Nang Ya Min, a secret...

Why We Should All Know About Safe Abortion. We sat down with doctors to talk about safe abortion while demystifying myths that we hear a lot in Myanmar. We also collect voices of Myanmar public on abortion. Follow our socials for further updates Facebook : www.facebook.com/gtawzagarwyne/ Sound Cloud : https://soundcloud.com/g-taw-zagar-wyne-podcast Spotify : open.spotify.com/show/4W80LIG2haqa3NxiJ...

The first-ever live podcast recording in Myanmar! Feminist activist Nandar from Purple Feminists Group will explore what consent is and means in Myanmar with special guest Win Min Than. The discussions is recorded live on Women Weeks 4th March. With the support of Any Rev TV and in partnership with the EU Delegation to Myanmar. ----- Why host a podcast recording show? A podcast live recording is a...

G-Taw Crystal is currently living in Pyin Oo Lwin working with an indigenous education NGO organization named RISE. She shared with us not only her professional journey of becoming apart of RISE community but also her personal struggles of building a healthy relationship with her mother for a long time. She emphasized and gave us her transformative view on life, love, and relationship while pursui...

G-taw is airing to amplify, inspire and empower through dialogues and storytelling with legend girls and women. How do you know when you are in a toxic relationship? How do you address them? How do you cut them off? What are the signs of healthy relationship? How can we build one? Due to pandemic COVID 19, we are doing some exclusive podcast sessions to keep you occupied and informed about a varie...

This week, meet Gtaw, Yadanar who is a doctor and an SRHR advocate from Yangon. In this episode, she shares memorable experiences with her first-time bleeding and how she attached shame around it. She also offers us a medical point of view on menstruation: why we bleed, what happens when we bleed or not bleed. She greatly takes time on deconstructing myths around menstruation and explains why they...

G-taw is airing to amplify, inspire and empower through dialogues and storytelling with legend girls and women. This week, meet our third speaker, Gtaw, graphic Artist, Moe Thandar Aung from Mandalay. She talks about her incredible smart grandmother who inspires her to be an artist, her perspective on love, and her journey of becoming an artist without even planning to be. She also emphasizes how...

G-taw is airing to inspire and empower through dialogues and storytelling with legend girls and women. This week, we have the legend, G-Taw Aye Thiri Kyaw with us who is a humanitarian activist, a researcher, a proud single mother, and a feminist. In this episode, she shares her childhood memories, her carrier as a researcher and her struggle with divorce. With open heart, she talks about her pers...

G-taw is airing to inspire and empower through dialogues with legend women and girls. For the very first episode of our season-1, we have invited G-taw Pyait Sone Win who is a poet, a doctor, and a teacher. In this episode, she shares her journey of from becoming a doctor to a teacher. She also emphasizes on her writing journey and love life with her beloved husband who she newly married to. Her p...

"The patriarchal system has existed around us in different forms. Our ancestors did their part in dismantling it and so are we. And I have no doubt that future generations will continue this fight till the end of it. " In this episode, Naw Eunice a senior program officer at Swiss Aid Myanmar and a feminist gives us her perspective on the changes that Myanmar women from different have mad...

"The International Community has not been doing enough that is exactly why GM4MD and organizations like us are continuing with our advocacy for change so that the international leaders listen and act." Jan Jan is a first-generation Kachin-American student majoring in Global Affairs at George Mason University. She previously served as Co-lead of the Burma Committee for STAND: The Student-led Moveme...

" I see two classes; the group that oppressed and those who are being oppressed.  If we want to demolish Burmanization, even the Bama community must know that they are being oppressed by the system because the oppressors are using the ideology to divide between Bamas and other ethnic groups. I would really prefer the reconciliation between the oppressed class to fight against the oppressors."...

"We DO NOT need people to save us but what we do need is support. That has always been my intention with posting all these stories daily basis about #Whatishappeninginmyanmar on social media ." Thet is a young Karen ethnic woman and organizer from Yangon. Since the coup, she has been protesting and primarily documenting and sharing #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar as a civilian on the ground. Podcast link...