Gender Equality conference - Women’s rights in History and Pop culture
Women’s rights in History and Pop culture
Culture Intersectionality Society Inspiration
Grace Ly
Grace Ly is a writer, director and podcast host.
What are some of the most important women's struggles that history often forgets ? How do theirs claims still resonate with today's society and are highlighted by pop culture?
« Ain’t I a woman?" asked African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth in 1851 at a conference in Ohio. "There is someone more unknown than the unknown soldier: his wife," chanted the founders of the French Women's Liberation Movement in 1970. In 2002, women from the Kerala region in India protested through dharnas (sit-ins) against Coca-Cola factories for illegally depleting groundwater, aiming to protect the region's water cycle.
This talk highlights the struggles of many women who deserve more recognition, from the British Suffragettes to the Chinese feminist activists behind the hashtag "Rice Bunny," a phonetic transcription of #MeToo used to bypass state censorship. Through their stories, we explore the battles for equality, feminism, and environmentalism that resonate with today's cultural creations.
About Grace Ly:
Grace Ly is a writer, director, and podcast host. Her novel “Jeune fille modèle” (Fayard, 2018) features the desires and doubts of a young girl living in the Thirteenth Arrondissement of Paris. She co-hosts with journalist Rokhaya Diallo the podcast “Enjoy your life” (“Kiffe ta race”) (Binge Audio), which has been questioning racial issues in French society for 4 seasons. The book of the same name has just been published (First, 2022).
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