Power and positionality: gender and development in Iraq

It was 2012, and I was in Bnaslawa, a town outside of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The purpose of my trip was to conduct a “gender assessment”—a development industry term for a type of participatory re-search designed to determine the extent to which a project has integrated principles of gender equity into its activities.

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International Development, Advocacy and Organizing, Feminist EconomiesLindsey Jones-RenaudJune 3, 2020Gender, Gender analysis, Intersectionality

Op-Ed: DC must do more for families by fully funding the BirthtoThree Act

By investing in the Birth to Three for All Act, we can expand access to child care for all families while reversing the centuries-old practice of underpaying and undervaluing the often Black and brown women who care for and educate our youngest residents.

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Advocacy and Organizing, Feminist EconomiesLindsey Jones-RenaudFebruary 27, 2020Care work, Gender, Intersectionality, Race