I have never really gone to any specific feminist websites, but as I was browsing the web, I came across a website that really struck me. It's called Equality Now and it's goal is to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through mobilization and public pressures. Specific issues this website focuses on are rape, domestic violence, trafficking, FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), reproductive rights and gender discrimination. Equality Now has created many different campaigns for different public issues related to women. Equality Now works to help protect and promote human rights around the world.
Following Alexis Pauline Gumbs article, "Virtual Togetherness," Equality Now creates an online community for women who have gone through similar experiences as the women shown or talked about on the website. The majority of this website refers to women in less developed countries, Africa, India and Afghanistan for example. Although this website refers mostly to women outside of the United States, having a website that makes these kind of women's issues public, helps other women because they can relate to them. This website has so much information on ways to campaign, promote women's rights, and many facts that bring these "women's issues" to the forefront of human right issues. It allows people who feel very strongly about these issues to become part of this community and take part in campaigns, networks and projects so they feel part of something. Being part of something, anything, provides people with a sense of community. It allows people to be an info-sumer, simply just taking in facts that are put on the website. It allows people to be a communitarian which means they can go to this website and become very much a part of Equality Now. There are several ways that someone can become part of Equality Now including organizing events, fundraising, writing letters and circulating petitions. These are ways in which someone can really become a communitarian, becoming part of the Equality Now community.
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