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Feminism, unsurprisingly, is sometimes frowned upon and seen as an extreme ideology in China. Those who argue for women’s rights can often encounter derision, discrimination and bullying from family and peers. Even the law does not always protect feminists: last year, on International Women’s Day, local governments arrested five young female activists who had organised a protest against sexual harassment on public transport.
While the western media paid close attention to the event, many Chinese women had no idea it had even happened – feminism is not necessarily big news in China.
But Gao did pay attention to the news and, at the end of 2014, together with a fellow student, 16-year-old Cui Yuxiao, founded the feminist club at the Dalton Academy, the international branch of the prestigious Affiliated High School of Peking University, one of the top two universities in the country.
Such a club of girls Gao’s age is more or less unheard of in China. Since November, the club has aimed to hold weekly sessions every Friday lunchtime. At each session, members present a feminist topic of interest, “with the purpose of helping other students discover something new [about feminism] that they wouldn’t see without ‘feminist lenses,’” says Gao.
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China’s feminist school club: the Beijing students talking equality on their lunch break
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yayfeminism
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Feminism, unsurprisingly, is sometimes frowned upon and seen as an extreme ideology in China. Those who argue for women’s rights can often encounter derision, discrimination and bullying from family and peers. Even the law does not always protect feminists: last year, on International Women’s Day, local governments arrested five young female activists who had organised a protest against sexual harassment on public transport.
While the western media paid close attention to the event, many Chinese women had no idea it had even happened – feminism is not necessarily big news in China.
But Gao did pay attention to the news and, at the end of 2014, together with a fellow student, 16-year-old Cui Yuxiao, founded the feminist club at the Dalton Academy, the international branch of the prestigious Affiliated High School of Peking University, one of the top two universities in the country.
Such a club of girls Gao’s age is more or less unheard of in China. Since November, the club has aimed to hold weekly sessions every Friday lunchtime. At each session, members present a feminist topic of interest, “with the purpose of helping other students discover something new [about feminism] that they wouldn’t see without ‘feminist lenses,’” says Gao.
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China’s feminist school club: the Beijing students talking equality on their lunch break
(via
yayfeminism
)
