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FREE FUTURE
It’s the front page story that’s never on the front page. Nearly one in three women in the world will experience sexual and/or physical violence in her lifetime—and the numbers are going up, not down, with women of color, queer women and nonbinary people at particular risk.
There’s never been a more urgent time to understand and combat gender-based violence. The Free Future series examines the oft-neglected systemic public crisis through film, illustration and analysis.
FOREIGN POLICY INTERRUPTED
Interruptrr is focused on identifying, nourishing, and unleashing the expertise of women-identifying and non-binary journalists and analysts. It’s high time to dismantle the Ivory Tower notion of an “expert” and the supremacist gatekeeping around whom is deemed such.
Check out this collaboration with World Policy Journal—an entire issue edited, penned, and illustrated/photographed by women and non-binary journalists—this piece in Vox , this piece in Council on Foreign Relations and this video panel conversation entitled Interrupting Foreign Policy: Bringing Women to the Forefront.
SCHOOL CYCLE
Schoolcycle: helping girls get to school.
SchoolCycle tackles one of the most expensive and complex pieces of the development puzzle: infrastructure. It’s a problem that requires political will and cannot be solved overnight. But Girl Up’s SchoolCycle is one piece of the puzzle we can all help align.
SchoolCycle is about investing in future change-makers by giving them a simple tool—actual wheels of progress—to make sure their voices are heard, so they can transform the course of their futures.
Check out press from Cosmopolitan here and press from CBS here.
Articles
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Who Killed Claudia Gomez?
MARIE CLAIRE
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In a hotel room in Albania, Afghan women await new lives – and watch their homeland collapse
CNN
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With Trump’s Help, Egypt’s Holds a Farcical Election
THE NEW YORKER
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'We're All Handcuffed in This Country.' Why Afghanistan Is Still the Worst Place in the World to Be a Woman
TIME
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Tunisia Won the Nobel Peace Prize. But the Country Is Far From Peaceful.
TIME
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A New Bridge in Johannesburg Reveals How Little South Africa Has Changed
NEWSWEEK
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Here are 6 women trying — against all odds — to build a future for Gaza
PRI’S THE WORLD
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Remembering Marielle Franco, a black Brazilian trailblazer
THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT
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Bicycles give poor girls autonomy, but a decision in D.C. could change that
THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT
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Vignettes: Life for Women Under ISIS Rule
THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT
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The Mother of El Salvador’s Pro-Choice Movement
YAHOO NEWS / LENNY
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A Syrian Kitchen in Exile: A multimedia series with recipes
CULINARY BACKSTREETS
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A Silent History: Growing Up Gay in Turkey
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
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‘No One’s Country Anymore’
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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The Kidnapping of a Country
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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El Salvador’s Only Abortion Lawyer
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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A Startup for Geeks in Gaza
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Time Running Out For One of Africa’s Only Women Presidents
NBC NEWS
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A Revolution Devours Its Children
THE ATLANTIC
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‘All Our Young People Have Gone to the Mountains’: Inside Turkey’s revived war against the Kurds
THE ATLANTIC
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Turkey's 'Traitors' Speak Out
THE ATLANTIC
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Nine Faces of the New Egypt
THE ATLANTIC
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Syria’s Generation in Waiting
THE ATLANTIC
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Love in the Time of Civil War: For Syrian refugees, marriage celebrates life and beginnings—when both are sorely missed.
THE ATLANTIC
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The Muslim Brotherhood Comes to America
CNN
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Turkey’s Kingdom of Men
ELLE
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Defying the Tropes of Women & War: Meet 4 Women Who Fled Syria
ELLE
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What’s It Like to Be a Woman Journalist in the Middle East?
COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE
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The making of a Syrian refugee celebrity chef — in Gaza
PRI’S THE WORLD
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‘Tombamento’ – Black Brazilian women’s ongoing struggle for power
NEWSWEEK
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In Greece, Migrant Women Push for Acceptance
WOMEN IN THE WORLD
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Churchill’s Egyptian Getaway on the Nile
THE DAILY BEAST
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On a Mission to Mars, Imprisoned in Turkey
FOREIGN POLICY
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It’s Time to Start Giving a Shit About Toilets
FOREIGN POLICY
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“The Freedom Fight Has Returned to Turkey”
FOREIGN POLICY
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The Blood Brothers of Anbar
FOREIGN POLICY
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‘They Made Us Take the Seat of Death’
FOREIGN POLICY
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Syrian History Is Unfolding on What's App
WIRED
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In Beirut, Syrian Refugees Cook to Survive—and Remember
BON APPÉTIT
Articles featuring Lauren and her work
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What Women Say They Need to Help Them Achieve Their Goals
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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This is not the Gaza you typically see in American media
VOX
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Interview: On humanity and power
WOMEN IN FOREIGN POLICY
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Setting the Tone of Your Life Story
TURKISH WIN
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Interview: Solitude in a Colorful, Glittery Cave
Birdseed