This Instagram art project honors victims of femicide

Women and girls changing their worlds — and ours. No Images? [Click here]( [Across Women's Lives]( Last September, two Mexican artists came across a list on Facebook of women who had been victims of femicide (murder motivated by gender). It included the names of over a thousand victims in Mexico who were killed in the first nine months of 2017. It inspired the pair — two women artists in their 20s — to create the Instagram project, No estamos todas, which translates to “We are not all here.” The effort is [dedicated to raising awareness]( about femicide in Mexico with original illustrations from more than 130 artists. Also, a 19-year-old woman in Madhya Pradesh, a state in central India, was born into a caste that forced her into prostitution. Learn about how she [left that life behind]( and how she's trying to help other young women like her. And we just caught this new story from The New York Times about the [hidden taxes on women](. They might not be what you expect. Please join in on the social conversation on [Facebook]( or [Twitter,]( with our hashtag, #womenslives. The best content about women and girls from across the web, curated by AWL editors. [Buzzfeed]( This woman is taking on racism and sexism in Italy — and getting death threats for it, [Buzzfeed]( She’s been threatened with rape, burned in effigy, and mocked by a major party leader using an inflatable sex doll. Now Laura Boldrini, the speaker of the Italian Parliament, stays in a secret location while running for reelection. [NY Times]( The hidden taxes on women, [NY Times]( The working world is unfair to many women, yet even when they succeed, they must confront another series of challenges. Their hard-won successes are taxed in ways that men’s are not. The taxes I’m talking about aren’t paid in dollars and cents or imposed by the government. [colorlines]( Meet Maria Moreno: The first farm worker woman in America to be hired as a union organizer, [Colorlines]( Before César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, there was Maria Moreno, a union organizer whose story all but disappeared from history until the discovery of lost photographs taken more than 50 years ago. It sparked the search for a woman that time had forgotten. [Longreads]( We’ve always hated girls online: A Wayback Machine Investigation, [Longreads]( Once upon a time, in 1999, when the internet was small, when it came through your phone and not just on your phone, when the first browser war had not yet been won, when you had to teach yourself a few lines of code if you wanted to exist online, when the idea of broadcasting your real name for anyone to see was unthinkable — in those early days, before Twitter revolutions, before Facebook Live homicides, when the internet was small and most people didn’t understand it, and only the nerds hung out there — even then, it was already happening. Even then, people hated girls on the internet. Only 17% of profiles on Wikipedia are of women, [UNESCO]( UNESCO considers gender equality as a fundamental human right, a building block for social justice and an economic necessity. With the #WIKI4WOMEN initiative, UNESCO is calling for everyone to take few minutes of their time to create, enrich or translate, in as many languages as possible, Wikipedia portraits of women committed in the fields of education, science, culture, social and human sciences, or communication and information. Save the date! March 8. [The Atlantic]( How Bollywood's Sridevi should be remembered, [The Atlantic]( When Sridevi rose to prominence in the Hindi film industry, Bollywood, in the 1980s, it was at its tawdriest. The auteurs had left the building and a new, intensely commercial Hindi cinema had taken root. Out of this emerged Sridevi, shining brighter than the hundreds of rhinestones and diamantes on her (sometimes) terrible outfits. Against all odds, she became the first modern, female superstar Bollywood has known and would remain one of its favorite actors over five decades. Across Women’s Lives is PRI’s ambitious multiplatform journalism and engagement initiative about the connection between the empowerment of women and girls, and economic development and improved health around the world. This newsletter highlights our reporting and the work from staff at PRI, The World and The Takeaway in calling attention to the ways that women are shaping a better future for their communities. [SUPPORT AWL]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Website]( PRI Public Radio International Hear a Different Voice [Forward]( [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](