G-Taw Zagar Wyne

G-Taw Crystal is currently living in Pyin Oo Lwin working with an indigenous education NGO organization named RISE. She shared with us not only her professional journey of becoming apart of RISE community but also her personal struggles of building a healthy relationship with her mother for a long time. She emphasized and gave us her transformative view on life, love, and relationship while pursuing a different kind of education on the border side of Myanma. Among many we strong women we know, Crystal stands out for her contribution and support on Indigenous's education needs in rural areas.

You can see her work here:

www.facebook.com/rise.organization.network

Their website here- riseducation.org/

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How do you know when you are in a toxic relationship? How do you address them? How do you cut them off? What are the signs of healthy relationship? How can we build one?

Due to pandemic COVID 19, we are doing some exclusive podcast sessions to keep you occupied and informed about a variety of topics from relationship to health.

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This week, meet Gtaw, Yadanar who is a doctor and an SRHR advocate from Yangon. In this episode, she shares memorable experiences with her first-time bleeding and how she attached shame around it. She also offers us a medical point of view on menstruation: why we bleed, what happens when we bleed or not bleed. She greatly takes time on deconstructing myths around menstruation and explains why they are not logical or medically approved. She emphasizes how damaging this harmful cultural practice is- for our mental, physical health. Many young girls in Myanmar are told not to take shower during menstruation and we asked Yadanar if that’s true. She suggests we do what we want to do like every day when we bleed and there is no need for any changes in lifestyles. Her passion, knowledge and constant advocacy on Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights will certainly give you many inspirations to stand up and speak up against inequality.

You can follow her work below
www.facebook.com/jewel.tapa
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If you wanna ask questions learn more about menstruation health or SRHR matter here are some links:
www.facebook.com/nyimalay.mm/
www.facebook.com/mateapplication/
www.facebook.com/Thiloyarmay/

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This week, meet our third speaker, Gtaw, graphic Artist, Moe Thandar Aung from Mandalay. She talks about her incredible smart grandmother who inspires her to be an artist, her perspective on love, and her journey of becoming an artist without even planning to be. She also emphasizes how her computer training led her to do graphic designs and she started getting interested in drawing. Since then she has never stopped drawing. She also announced that she wants to learn and explore more until she reaches her happy point. In her free time, Moe likes watching biography and mafia movies while listening to metal music. She adds talking about her younger sister who inspires and encourages her to be a better artist every day. She is a very inspiring artist that designs Lost In Violent book cover for Purple Feminists Group.

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Facebook: www.facebook.com/moethandarag
Instagram : www.instagram.com/artbymoeaung/

G-taw is airing to inspire and empower through dialogues and storytelling with legend girls and women.

This week, we have the legend, G-Taw Aye Thiri Kyaw with us who is a humanitarian activist, a researcher, a proud single mother, and a feminist. In this episode, she shares her childhood memories, her carrier as a researcher and her struggle with divorce. With open heart, she talks about her perspective on gender, domestic violence, feminism and divorce through personal and academic lens. She also emphasizes how hard it is to identify toxic behavior in a relationship since our culture has set women and girls to scarify. She explains in details about her journey of becoming the activist from personal stories. There are so many insightful things that we can learn from this conversation.

You can follow her on facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012242020118

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For the very first episode of our season-1, we have invited G-taw Pyait Sone Win who is a poet, a doctor, and a teacher. In this episode, she shares her journey of from becoming a doctor to a teacher. She also emphasizes on her writing journey and love life with her beloved husband who she newly married to. Her perspective on writing, love, treatment and prevention is quite something to learn from.
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"The patriarchal system has existed around us in different forms. Our ancestors did their part in dismantling it and so are we. And I have no doubt that future generations will continue this fight till the end of it. "
In this episode, Naw Eunice a senior program officer at Swiss Aid Myanmar and a feminist gives us her perspective on the changes that Myanmar women from different have made to better the society and how that has led to such great involvement of women in this revolution. She also adds on talking about how in the midst of the coup, we see the significant visibility of people daring to be sexist and misogynist, and how patriarchy and dictatorship are intertwined. Finally, she highlights and encourages young people's participation in different sections-politics, economics,and social. Listen to the full episode to get a wholesome understanding of the progress and challenges that feminists in Myanmar have made and faced.

Speaker Bio: Naw Eunice was born in the brown zone in the Pago region where there is an armed conflict area. She was growing up in a Karen and Christian family. At the age of 5, her family moved to May Myo (Pyin Oo Lwin) and finished matriculation in 1997. She finished her graduate program (Bachelor of Theology) with the research topic “Violence Against Asian Women “in 2003. She earned her Master of Divinity in 2007 from the Myanmar Institute of Theology with the thesis topic “Implementing the Rights of the Child in Myanmar Churches Community”. She has almost fifteen years of experience working alongside women, girls, and youth as a trainer and facilitator. From 2016 to 2019 she worked as a Project Coordinator at Gender Studies Center – Myanmar Institute of Theology. In 2017, she attended the month-long capacity-building course on “Gender, Sustainable development, Peace, and Human Rights” organized by SANGAT – A Feminist Network in Nepal. And voluntarily working as a county coordinator of One Billion Rising. Currently, she is working as a Senior Program Officer (Gender and Livelihoods) at SWISSAID Myanmar since 2019.

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"The International Community has not been doing enough that is exactly why GM4MD and organizations like us are continuing with our advocacy for change so that the international leaders listen and act."

Jan Jan is a first-generation Kachin-American student majoring in Global Affairs at George Mason University. She previously served as Co-lead of the Burma Committee for STAND: The Student-led Movement to End Mass Atrocities, Assistant Secretary for Kachin Alliance, and founded and served as President of the STAND at Mason chapter at her school. She continues to serve as an advisor for STAND at Mason, social media manager for Kachin Alliance, Burma Policy Lead for Action Corps and is Co-Founder of the Global Movement for Myanmar Democracy (GM4MD). With her fellow Co-Founders, GM4MD team members, and colleagues within the U.S. Advocacy Coalition for Myanmar (USACM), she is galvanizing the Burmese-American constituency domestically while also connecting passionate individuals from the Burmese diaspora and international community with one another for Burma advocacy.

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" I see two classes; the group that oppressed and those who are being oppressed.  If we want to demolish Burmanization, even the Bama community must know that they are being oppressed by the system because the oppressors are using the ideology to divide between Bamas and other ethnic groups. I would really prefer the reconciliation between the oppressed class to fight against the oppressors." 

Thawda Aye Lei, a Burmese published novelist, and social science researcher started her writing in 2002 and worked in the media field as a journalist. She obtained a master's degree in Development Practice from the University of Queensland in 2015, and in Gender, Human Rights, and Conflict Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands in 2016. She is surviving with two professionals; a social science researcher and as a writer. In 2017, she published her first novel "Silky Moonshade". She has published 4 novels and 2 short stories collections books so far.  She has also contributed many articles which were related to feminism and gender issues in the local papers. In 2019, she participated in a three-month International Writing Programme in Iowa, US.  In 2021, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.

"We DO NOT need people to save us but what we do need is support. That has always been my intention with posting all these stories daily basis about #Whatishappeninginmyanmar on social media ."