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Sculptures created by French artist Prune Nourry representing missing girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, on display in Lagos in December 2022. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

#BringBackOurGirls: Hashtags alone will not safeguard women’s lives and rights

Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent University and Adebola Esther Osegboun, Federal University, Oye Ekiti

Social media can reach people around the world. However, the simplicity and superficiality of hashtags neither readily lend themselves to feminist causes nor were they designed to be feminist tools.
The ‘othering’ of women through misogyny, racism and sexism in scholarship has had, and continues to have, serious consequences on women’s lives. (Shutterstock)

Why women’s studies programs in Canada are more important than ever

Jacquie Gahagan, Mount Saint Vincent University; Adwoa Onuora, Mount Saint Vincent University, and Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent University

Women’s studies programs should continue to be supported to ensure the fight for women’s rights are not reversed or forgotten.

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