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Monday, June 4, 2012
جودی شيکاگو، زنی که نام خود را برگزيد
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Judy Chicago; a woman who choose her own name
Sunday, May 20, 2012
تمامی ترانههايی كه نوشتهام، فرزندانم می باشند
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
All the songs I've written to be my children
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Dana Gillespie was born 1949 in the United Kingdom. She released her first album at the age of 15 and after 45 years in the music industry the multi-award winning Blues Diva released over 60 albums.
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Dana Gillespie was recently in Texas, United States as part of her Love to Love tour. It took a few minutes for her to engage with the audience and when she performed the song Love to Love for the second time, her strong and passionate voice got the audience out of their seats and onto their feet.
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DG: Both styles of music have to come from the heart and are usually not written down so that the heart, rather than the head, is used. Both styles deal with emotions and love and this subject interests me.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
از رياست دهکده تا خدمتکاری در خانه ی ديگران
برگردان و خلاصه: زارا مجيدپور ٣١ فروردین ١٣٩١ |
تابيتا، ده سال رياست دهکده "ها- فالونا" را بر عهده داشت، اما در سال 2009 توسط بستگانش از آن مقام خلع شد. "زن"بودنش،عامل خلع او از رياستش عنوان شد. "اونا ميگند من نمی تونم رييس دهکده باشم چونکه زن هستم وازدواج هم نکردم." اين مطلب را تابيتا در ديدارمان در "وست رند" جايی که کارفرمايانش زندگی می کنند بيان می کند. در سال 1998 پدرش درگذشت و بعد از او مادرش وظايف همسرش را بر عهده گرفت اما او نيز چندی بعد بيمار گشت و از زمان به بعد تابيتا عهده دار مسئوليت و وظايف او گشت. "پدر من سه دختر داره، دوتای اونا ازدواج کردند و من تنها کسی هستم که در خونه ام. اون زمون کسی گله و شکايتی از اون چه مادرم و من انجام ميداديم نداشت." تابيتا می گويد که پدرش اموال خود را به پسر او به ميراث گذاشته است، پسری که در سال 1993 به دنيا آمد و انتظار می رود که زمانی به عنوان رييس دهکده ايفای وظيفه نمايد و تا آن زمان مادرش عهده دار وظايف اوست. از جمله اين وظايف می توان به ضبط و ثبت زاد و ولدها و مرگ ميرها، نظارت بر گله های گاو، اختصاص زمين به ساکنين و مسائل مربوط به امور کشاورزی و مراسم کفن و دفن اشاره نمود. مرگ مادر و آغاز مشکلات تا هنگامی که مادرش زنده بود، روستاييان با رياست يک زن مشکلی نداشتند اما مرگ او در سال 2008 آغازی گشت بر سر راه رياست تابيتا. بنا به استدلال برخی از وابستگان پدريش، جنسيت و هم چنين عدم ازدواجش مانع از آن است که مقام رياست به فرزند او منتقل گردد زيرا که تولد فرزندش خارج از زناشويی صورت گرفته است. تابيتا می گويد که اگر حمايت رييس منطقه از او نبود مساله رياست بر دهکده را پيشترها رها می نمود. او می افزايد: "رييس به من گفت که من بايد کارمو ادامه بدم و نبايد مردمو ترک کنم. به اين دليل که اون حامی بزرگ من بود منم به کارم ادامه دادم، چون نمی خواستم اونو از خودم نااميد کنم." انجام کارهای که تابيتا از آنها سخن می گويد حقوق و دستمزدی را برای او به همراه نداشت. "فکر می کنم دو سالی بدون هيچ دستمزدی کار کردم که اين بی دستمزدی وحشتناک بود. اون موقع کسی از من حمايت نکرد. من و بچه هام و بچه های خواهرم تنها بوديم." تابيتا، تنها خواهر بازمانده از سه دختر است که سرپرست هفت فرزند از جمله دو فرزند خود را برعهده دارد. در سال 2009 وابستگان تابيتا، مردی به نام "موتا فالونه" يکی از بستگان نسبی که در روستای ديگری زندگی می کرد را جايگزين او نمودند. "ماله فتسانه سوآی" 29 ساله که در روستای "فا- لوآنه" زندگی می کنند در اين باره می گويد: "سراسر دوران کودکی من، مادر تابيتا رييس دهکده بود. من بين او و رييس مرد فرقی نمی ديدم. مشاورهای مرد او رو احاطه کرده بودند و اگه مشکلی به وجود می اومد اونها اونجا بودند. مردم به اون احترام می گذاشتند و کسی جرات نداشت رياست اونو به چالش بکشه. وقتی دختر او به رياست رسيد ما به او هم احترام می گذاشتيم." وکيلی از فدراسيون وکلای زنان در ماسرو پايتخت لسوتو توضيح می دهد که اگر چه در سالهای اخير اصلاحاتی درمورد قانون رياست چون جايگزينی زن بعد از مرگ همسرش صورت گرفته است اما در صورتی که رييس، فاقد فرزند پسر باشد رياست بعد از او به دخترش منتقل نمی گردد." تابيتا برای تامين مايحتاج فرزندانش مجبور به ترک سرزمينش شد. پيشترها او از راه کشت ذرت در زمين پدری امرار معاش می نمود اما با تغييرات نامنظم جوی و بدی آب وهوا کاشت محصولات کشاورزی با مشکلات زيادی روبرو گشت. "تصميم به ترک خونه ام گرفتم. وقتی اونجا کار می کردم پولی در نمی آوردم. بچه هام چيزی برای خوردن نداشتند، چيزی برای پوشيدن نداشتند." در حالی که تابيتا در ژوهانسبورگ کار می کند فرزندانش در لسوتو به سر می برند. او برای آنان پول غذايشان را می فرستد و هزينه تحصيلشان را فراهم می نمايد.. "اين پول کافی نيست اما حداقلش اينه که اونها چيزی برای خوردن دارند.و پولی برای هزينه های مدرسشون." اگر چه هر روز تابيتا از طريق تلفن با فرزندانش گفتگو می نمايد اما او دلتنگ آنان است و نگران مردم روستايش و اميدوار است که روزی به خانه اش بازگردد. v |
Thursday, April 5, 2012
تجاوز به نوزاد يک روزه و مکيدن خونش حاصل يک باور خرافی

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Rape a one-day-old baby due to superstition

Interview with Betty Makoni by Zara Majidpour
Betty was raped at age of six and at nine her mother was killed by her father. Her strong personality and refusal to be a victim helped her fight for her education, currently holding two bachelor degrees.
She did not only architect her own future but as a rape survivor fought for thousands of girls and women who are victim of violence and assisted many of them. If something happens to them she feels pain in her heart and she deals with the pain by writing poetry. She is not only a poet but Betty Makoni is a girl child right activist.
She is founder and director of Girl Child Network Zimbabwe (GCN) and Chief Executive Officer of Girl Child Network World Wide, an organization that champions the rights of the girl child in Zimbabwe and world over. Quote from Betty Makoni’s website (1).
Betty Makoni has received many awards since 2003. She received CNN Heroes Awards 2009.
I interview Betty Makoni recently and had the following questions:
Q: In some African countries like Zimbabwe or South Africa there are some people who believe that if a man with HIV/AIDS rapes a virgin he will be cured. The youngest girl you saw was a day old baby. Was there any connection between this baby and that belief? Will you share this story?
Betty Makoni: First of all I want to confirm that, yes; there was a very strong connection between the baby who was raped and the myth. What happened was near our offices in Chitungwiza, a high-density suburb in Zimbabwe which is about 30 km from the capital city Harare, we have an adjacent village called Mayambara village. In an early morning of August 2006 we were awoken to the fact that a child had been found dumped.
Q: You were raped at age 6 and your mother asked you to remain silent. Why do some women encourage girls to remain silent instead of speaking out against sexual abuse?
Betty: What really happened in my own case of rape is that this man had not only raped me, but had raped 9 other girls in the neighborhood. This means that 10 mothers had kept silent. I think with me it was a situation where my mother lived in a situation of domestic violence, and she had been the one to ask me to go out and sell at night. So in the unlikely event that she was going to open up, my father was going to use that as an excuse for abusing her in the home. She had been really tortured in the home through beatings and extramarital affairs and my mother kept silent.
I can see many women who keep silent find themselves in marital relationships that are fragile, abusive and there is no alternative. Sometimes having to keep quiet is a way of not silencing the child, but a way of reaching an amicable situation in the home where you are married, ensuring nothing can be used as an excuse for abuse. The burden of caring for children very much lies with mothers. Mothers take responsibility for everything that happens to children, especially in an African community. So for a mother to pronounce herself is going to cause her to be mocked in society and taken as an outcast. That really also adds to the situation where they are discriminated against already from a gender perspective. The silence is not an option. The silence is mandatory because of the economic and social situation. There is no other person to provide for your children should the men send you out. This is a shame on women more than anyone else.
So I can say to a greater extent that you always find ways of breaking silence. In my case I would always find my mother speaking to our neighbor many times. She tried to reach out to talk to someone. This was not something she could easily break silence because she was a secure married woman and mother. To her, the rape was in the past and served as a lesson. It is something that I have taken as a story, but to her it was a serious case where she could have lost her marriage.
Q: You teach girls to have a voice instead of being victims and remaining silent. You build empowerment villages which provide a future to girls who are sexually abused. What is the reaction of men in your society regarding your work?
Betty: I think initially the reaction was quite mixed. I was in a situation where the school head of where I taught, and where the first club was formed, did not want anything to do with girls meeting on their own. It was always regarded as a place for loose girls, for girls who were rebellious against culture. In any case, there is nothing in our community without being endorsed by men and boys. Initially it became difficult to convince anyone that this space was very critical to girls opening up and talking.
The better part of my work was characterized by winning over men: school teachers, politicians, parliamentarians. I think I won almost 90% of men in Zimbabwe, but the 10% of men that remained were the arrogant ones. Those were the rapists and their accomplices, the ones who were walking scot-free. From those men I got a lot of backlash. That’s why even my work to bring high-profile rape cases in Zimbabwe was so difficult. You were labeled a liar, a fraud, an evil woman. Anything that was negative you were labeled.
This interview was translated into Persian (Farsi) and published in Shahrzadnews website


