Flying Solo: A Transgender Widow Fights Discrimination
At 92, Robina Asti, a WWII veteran and pilot, tells her story of living as a transgender woman since 1976 and her fight to be treated like any other widow. Learn more about Lambda Legal’s resources for trans people and advocates at lambdalegal.org/kyr/trans....Written In Their Karma
In Nepali culture a widow is looked upon with great animosity, often being branded a witch or a whore. Their society believes it is their immoral actions in a previous life that form the defining reason behind the death of their husband. They have therefore been...Why Do We March
We had our reasons to participate to the Women’s March on...When Racism and Sexism Collide
On Friday the 11th of October, an audience gathered in Bristol’s Hydra Books to explore life at the intersection of structural racism and endemic sexism. The evening saw the debut viewing of the End Racism campaign’s new short film, When Racism and Sexism Collide. The...Wisdom to End Racism
This short film, published in May 2014, looks at the important contribution of minority ethnic older people in the UK to the fight against racism: “We need a movement led by young people, drawing on older people as a frame of reference.” “We need to get older people...Read more“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.”
– Desmond Tutu
