We remember Nawal El Saadawi, the renowned Egyptian feminist, physician, writer and activist, as our charismatic and outspoken mentor.
Author: Nadine Naber
Nadine Naber is a professor of gender and women’s studies and global Asian studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a public voices fellow of The OpEd Project. She is the author and/or co-editor of five books, a TEDX speaker; and co-founder of MAMAS and Liberate Your Research.
Vaccines Aren’t Enough to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in Prisons
In Illinois, there are no phases for inmates. There is indefinite lockdown. Inmates are not receiving proper medical attention and the system denies their mothers information about their children’s existing symptoms or whether or not they might survive.
Mothers of Victims of Police Don’t Want Your Pity. They Want Solidarity—and Justice.
Mothers of police violence are not merely biological extensions of their children, who exist only to nurture them through life and cry and grieve through their child’s pain. They are revolutionaries.
By integrating the work of grief, nurture and care with their ongoing fight for justice, these women are the kinds of activists we need to have leading the way.