Trauma Rewired: Empowering Women Worldwide

Empowering Women Worldwide

Dec 8, 2020

Join Johanna and I as she shares the injustices that our sisters are globally fighting and why she created Project Monma; an organization that aims to raise awareness about violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world. It is a global problem and is not confined to certain countries and religions; it is everyone’s problem. Violence and discrimination by men towards women around the world is severely under-reported and therefore under-acknowledged.

Discussed in this episode:

[1:27] Why Johanna chose the name Project Monma
[2:20] Governments lack of support for women’s rights
[5:49] Johanna and I talk about our experience with the ‘male gaze’
[7:28] Research and documenting women’s stories in Cambodia
[10:05] Education restrictions for women
[11:05] Families selling the women and children in the family
[12:12] Forced marriages
[14:47] The lack of sex education
[17:17] Placing shame on victims of sexual violence is illogical
[19:03] Johanna shares harassment stories from women she’s encountered
[24:14] ‘Blaming’ from the point of view of a male student
[26:52] Deli Rape Case
[28:29] Men prefer to marry virgins, no man will marry a woman who’s been raped
[34:59] Rape laws for women in descent-based slavery in West Africa
[37:22] There is more slavery today than there has ever been
[38:03] Sex slavery and human trafficking
[41:05] Racism between countries
[47:13] Giving education, critical thinking, and global knowledge to these women
[49:14] Johanna talks about how Ayaan Hirsi Ali
[52:17] Talking and spreading awareness will help create change