"Even though you are gaining a lot during pregnancy or childbirth, you are losing a big part of your life and there is no space for women to feel hurt, or angry, or feel grief and that's quite harmful."

Khin Chan Myae Maung is a young writer from Myanmar. She studied Sociology and Literary Arts in Melbourne and is currently working as an English teacher in Myanmar. After becoming a mother in 2019, she's been exploring the dynamics of motherhood and childbirth in Myanmar culture and feminism.

As a writer, her work consists of short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction essays. She was recognized as Judges Choice Writer in the Ithaca College Writing Contest 2016, after placing first in both fiction and poetry. Her work can be found in Still Water Magazine, Rough Cut Zine, Frontier Magazine, and Yangon Literary Magazine. Giving Alms is her first published work of short stories.

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"It is gonna be a long thing. People need to understand that they are strong but they also need to look after themselves. I want people to understand that thing like self-care is really important.” MiMi Aye

Burmese author food writer turned activist MiMi Aye has been raising awareness about the crisis in Myanmar since the coup in February. With bylines in TIME, The Independent, and The Guardian, MiMi’s award-winning book ‘MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen’ was chosen by The Observer and The Financial Times as one of their Best Books of the Year. MiMi also co-hosts the food and culture podcast The MSG Pod and is on social media as @meemalee. She is a qualified solicitor and read Law at Cambridge.

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“Global health at its core is colonial. Myanmar, for example, falls under the tropical hygiene and hygiene, in this case, is not to protect the natives but to protect the colonizers from the natives.”

Listen to Ma Sandra Mon, a scientist-activist who talks about her life and profession as a scientist and how this revolution has led her to claim an identity as an activist. She has also wisely suggested how we can all take a part in decolonizing the health care system in Myanmar.

Sandra Mon is a senior researcher at the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Department of Epidemiology. As a Myanmar national, she has been an active voice for health care workers in Myanmar since the beginning of the coup there on February 1.

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What do you see when you type Rohingya on google? People who are displaced and lost and are crying. Why are those images widely spread on the internet? What has happened to them? Who are Rohingya people? Where do they belong?

You will be getting answers to the burning questions you have about Rohingya people and their history. We sat down with Rohingya Social Justice Activist, Yasmin Ullah to discuss the very core of this issue and how she is taking part in bringing solutions along with many other activists and advocates.

You can listen to this episode wherever you listen to the podcast.

Follow Yasmin: twitter.com/YasminJUllah

What is happening to our mental health under the coup? How are we dealing? What are we feeling? How can we take care of ourselves?

Listen to this podcast where Gabriella and Nandar talk about the mental health struggles during the coup.

Since the coup took over Burma on 1st February, our mental and physical health has been degrading. G-Taw Zagar Wyne Podcast started a series on mental health under the coup to discuss mental health issues and create a platform for Myanmar people to share their stories, ask questions, and seek support as they need.

Speaker Bio: Gabriella Phyu is a psychologist working in Australia. She studied psychology in Australia for 7 years and finished her Master of Clinical Psychology in 2020. She came to Australia to study the IT profession but decided to change her major after studying psychology as her elective subject in her foundation studies. Gabriella is passionate about raising awareness about the importance of mental health wellbeing in the community and the impact of mental health problems on individuals and families. She primarily works in supporting adults, young adults, children, and their families within the community.

We are going to talk more about specific issues that the people of Myanmar are facing during this political crisis. Please stay tuned and follow our social media for more episodes.

Share your stories. Ask questions. Seek Support.

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"My dream is to educate people on what is necessary for all mankind."

Dr.Thet Su Htwe is one of the leading proponents of sexuality educations in Myanmar. Through her organization Strong Flowers, she has been spreading knowledge on sexuality as a tool for gender justice, humanist and feminist values among people in Myanmar. She is a medical doctor and a family physician by training. Her dream was to educate people on what is necessary for all mankind. 

She brings her religious identity which is her hijab (a headscarf) and showing the evidence of defending the rights of Muslim women to education, to earn a living, and to involve in societal change, and social harmony. Her strong feminist mindset embraces her struggles into the endeavor in most of her work-field. Beyond the regular SRHR education programs, she is now running a sexuality education program for women with disabilities in collaboration with one of the leading disabilities initiatives in Myanmar. Over 6 years, she has taught basic SRHR education to over 3500 adults and adolescents including people and youth with disabilities across Myanmar through Strong Flowers Sexuality Education Services.

For more information,

www.strongflowers.org

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We are back, again!

Our guest is a gender, diversity, and inclusion specialist who has experiences working with both private and profit sectors. Her full name is Khin Hnin Su. She did a Master's study on Gender, Policy, and Inequalities from LSE (London school of economics and political sciences).

Out of her busy schedule, she is doing a sanitary pad fundraising campaign for women/girls in quarantine centers. She is here to share with us about this fundraising campaign on sanitary pads as well as her passion for equality. 

Please, go check the Fundraising Facebook page to learn about how you can donate and support this important action. 

Learn more about Khin Hnin Su--> https://www.linkedin.com/in/khinsu/

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"I was ashamed of becoming a woman. My breast was just growing and I was so embarrassed of having them that I, in fact, once tapped them so that it would look flat. I was shaped by an environment that made me ashamed of my womanhood."

In this weekly podcast, we sat down and talked with Miss Nepal World 2018, Shrinkhala Khatiwada who has been actively speaking about social issues in several media. With her, we will be discussing menstrual taboos and other harmful social practices that she has experienced or seen and how she is challenging those. Ma Nandar& Shrinkhala shared the same ethnic identity (being born as Nepali) however, did two of them experience different things for being born in different countries?

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Episode-3-Becoming a Journalist-Ei Thant Sin

"Build from what you are good at and learn from people who are doing better than you. It is not a time to be jealous or be envious. You don't have to copy them but learn the key points.  Don't doubt  yourself or the process." 

Good afternoon, G-Taw listeners! It has been awhile since we last produced our English podcast. Today, we are releasing new episode for G-Taw Zagar Wyne (English podcast). This week speaker is, Ei Thant Sin who is currently working as an international broadcaster at Voice of America, Burmese Service. She is a TV anchor, editor and producer for ‘VOA Breakfast News’ on Mizzima channel. She was born and raised in Yangon, and moved to the United States for college in 2012. She graduated from Randolph College in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication studies and a minor in Studio Arts. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.

In this podcast she shares her experience of becoming a journalist. Writing and being vocal about the things around her was something she has been doing since she was 16 years old. 

Myanmar language podcast here- https://soundcloud.com/g-taw-zagar-wyne-podcast

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Episode-2-We Need To Talk About Abortion-Sneha Nair-HTU

"We believe that every girl, woman,  and transgender in Myanmar deserves access to safe abortion."

G-Taw Zagar Wyne (English), Episode- 2 – We Need To Talk About Abortion

Featuring- HowToUseAbortionPill 

Speaker: Sneha Nair, Communication Officer

Abortion is a basic medical healthcare need for millions of women and girls and others who can become pregnant. This is not only health issues but also social justice issues. Like many countries in the world,  Myanmar also strictly prohibited this right and therefore, put the lives of many in danger. How do we normalize this conversation? This week,  G-Taw Zagar Wyne sat with HowToUseAbortionPill to discuss why safe, respectful, and legal abortion matters.

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