Shear Madness is a really cool initiative by Grassrooted Trust, aimed at raising awareness and funds for marginalised women and girls in the Anuradhapura district to improve their skills and business opportunities. You can volunteer to have your hair shaved off or sponsor someone who's braver than you! The campaign will launch at 5pm at Barefoot on Monday, 10th December. For more details,
Borrowed from this post: 45 most powerful images of 2012 off Buzzfeed. Some of them really really moved me. Ok, I cried a little. Whatever. Others are just pure awesome. Serious props to the photographers. Boy being evicted from his home in Kathmandu, Nepal by Stringer/Reuters Two women from Maryland getting engaged on election night by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Palestiniane girl vs
The primary reason for this post are the photographs below, taken at a vegetable stall in Attidiya, but I'll tie it into other veggie related thoughts in a minute. Aren't they gorgeous? Everything about the colour and presentation made me go a little bit nuts, right down to the old school wattiya that you select your veggies in to. Colombo supermarkets could learn a thing or two from these
Well, it's happening again. Yesterday afternoon saw a small group of Colombo residents wandering around in dismay among a mess of cut branches and uprooted tree stumps. The tree lined avenue opposite the Arts Faculty of Colombo Uni is undergoing what we can only assume is "beautification". As is now par for the course, no one, including the people directed to cut the trees, knows why or
The OBR- Sri Lanka campaign will be launching on Sunday, the 25th of November at Galle Face, preceded by a walk organised by Women in Need. Visit the facebook page for more details. Catch the last day of the Vintage Posters of Ceylon exhibit at Barefoot (end Nov. 24th). A truly fabulous collection of art. Spotted this poster via twitter. Looks interesting and worth a visit.
let it go – the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise – let it go it was sworn to go let them go – the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers – you must let them go they were born to go let all go – the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things – let all go dear so comes love e.e. cummings
Tis the season.. to talk about development. With a big conference coming up in December, we seem to eat, sleep and breathe growth, infrastructure, wellbeing and the environment, to name a few. Amidst all of this, I find myself thinking more and more about a story I first heard when I joined my current workplace: One day a fisherman was lying on a beach with his fishing pole propped up in the
If you're anything like me, and you're probably not, September brings with it memories of a comfy red duvet, a large-footed Russian, and pumpkin spice lattes on the way to class. One of the highlights of our final year in college was the Starbucks that opened on campus, and I spent a pretty penny on their seasonal drinks, chugging that shiz down like it was an arrack and co glass of ice water on
Shit got pretty cray last night. As the light started to fade many of us were on our balcony watching the prison in the distance, listening to sporadic gunshots and watching the army personnel beginning to amass below. An ambulance drove by, police closed the road off from the main junction and as darkness fell, the street lights were turned off, plunging us into
Too many links, too little time, but here's a few I bookmarked over the last few days months. I might need to make more time for blogging. * Firstly, if you are not already following the Divineguma debate, and the impeachment of the Chief Justice, you should be. Start reading, here are some links 1, 2, 3, 4. * Read this. Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women I
* Melo, this time around, was an eclectic experience; one which I hope they will repeat again and again. There were songs in Hindi, Arabic, Malayali and Sinhala.. There were songs so sexual it made my uterus shrivel.. I jest (not really), but much love to Dave for bringing this Pete Murray song into my world (4:30).. Gehan did a stellar version of Mexico.. (see what I did
I'm taking a break from armchair activism to to put up some pictures of PIX, an exhibition I went to last week. It was a selection of photographs from some of Sri Lanka's finest photographers, and honestly left me a little dazzled; while I appreciate the amateur photography exhibitions I go to, there's nothing like looking at the world through the lens of a pro to know what photography is really
I recently posted this article on facebook with the following comment: I just want to laugh and laugh but then I remember how sad beauty pageants make me. Nothing like a woman being judged on her face and body that screams Empowered Woman. In retrospect, I would have phrased that better, like so: Nothing screams Empowered Woman like being judged on your face and body. Anyway, I wanted to
I suppose it's a happy coincidence that Blog Action Day coincided with me preparing to write about One Billion Rising, the global campaign started by V-day. That the theme of BAD was the Power of We seems just a little too perfect, but I'm rolling with it. One in Three Women on the Planet will be Raped or Beaten in her Lifetime. This is the global statistic. But let's talk closer to home.
The liars, the cheaters, the schemers. The harassers, the rapists, the murderers. The alcoholics, the drug addicts, the wife beaters, the child abusers. The ones who put chilli powder in their wife's vagina. The ones who play with their penis in front of their daughter. The ones who rape their stepdaughters while their wives earn a living abroad. The ones who put their penis into a 6 month
I am writing this while my head is still buzzing from a day’s worth of human rights-related conversation. Sunila Abeysekera gave a lecture today on human rights, conflict and gender, and the topic of sex workers raised a discussion between some of us that gave me lots of food for thought. I will post my thoughts, unformatted, and then update ...
I am very excited to introduce to you, dear readers, Asela Perera’s newest single, Once, and provide a preamble to his 3rd EP, Evenings in the Sun. <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE TA <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>
If I get nothing else out of these few weeks in Nepal, it would still have been worth it, to have been in the company of these wonderful and inspiring ladies who are doing so much to make the world a better place for women. L-R Rukmini Rao, Anis Haroon, Mona Sherpa, Sunila Abeysekera, Kamla Bhasin, Khushi Kabir, Anuradha Kapoor, Shahbano Aliani, Suneeta Dhar