Young feminists. We say they have a voice, that they are engaged, that they are leading in their own right, that they are strong and unrelenting. We assume they are a monolith. We assume we’ve adequately supported them and paved the way for them to take over. We assume we have fought hard for the rights they now enjoy. And, we assume that they will finish the job that we haven’t been able to finish. I wanted to test some of these assumptions. Who are “young feminists” – and h

I spent the weekend interviewing my seven-year-old niece about women’s rights. She had a lot to say. So, let’s get this interview started. How old are you? Well, I’m basically eight. Ok, seven and a half. Ok, more than a half. We’ve talked about what I do… Do you remember what that is? You help women around the world. You help women get their rights. Why? Because people think men can be more strong and can do other things that women can’t. So we don’t get treated the same. Bu

Props to the stellar IWSAW team for giving us this update… in case we’ve forgotten that girls are still being married off while we remain politically paralyzed… *** The unfortunate fact is that no minimum age for marriage exists in Lebanon, even though Lebanon ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child without reservations. Marriage age is set based on the personal status laws of the different religious sects, which are known to make exceptions for marriages of childr