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"Butterfliers" is a wing of the project that aims to recognize and make visible women whose contributions need to be rendered visible. These women are "butterfliers" because they help the project grow in scope and numbers -- the number of women who are featured and the perspectives they add to the process.
For this Project, “Butterfliers” are those women with whom we find resonance in the feminist struggles for a world where our worlds, our lives, our rights, our inputs and our untamed voices can have a dignified place.
“Butterfliers” are the women that outstand in the struggle for gender justice, in the processes of democratization of our societies against the abuse of power, denial of our rights and invisibilisation of the women’s contributions.
“Butterfliers” are those women that excel in this contribution while promoting feminist alternatives towards an inclusive world of social justice, equeality and a healthy planet by also challenging, with other actors, the paradigms of domination and exclusion.
Please nominate other women butterfliers by sending us
pictures and stories to add to our list!!
(Limit of 2-3 pages, links to sources & other information, include photos/images)
Since the project began, we have met or already known a number of Butterfliers, some of whom are described below:
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The Nicaraguan Nine are feminist leaders who were named as Butterfliers for their courage in confronting injustice, persecution and violations of women's human rights by the Ortega government of Nicaragua. They have been accused of violating Nicaraguan law when they defended a 9-year-old girl who was raped and made pregnant by her stepfather. To commemorate International Women's Day on March 8th, Wings of the Butterfly paid homage to the nine Nicaraguan activists at the Autonomous Encuentro of Feminist Writers & Artists of Latin America and the World, and part of the International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua.
Update on Nicaraguan Nine: Join the solidarity
campaign
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Olga Bianchi was honored by the project Wings of the Butterfly and WILPF (Women's International League of Peace & Freedom) for her tireless work of eight decades in defense of women’s rights. At the event on March 6, 2008, Wings declared her a butterflier, recognizing in Olga the commitment that she continues realizing not only through activism but in the training of young feminists in CR.
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Nawal El Saadawi is an Egyptian global feminist who was named a butterflier for her
numerous contributions as a prolific writer, university professor, medical doctor in psychiatry and surgery, feminist peace activist for
social justice, and former prisoner, and founder of the Association of Solidarity with Arab Women, among others. She has been living in exile in the US and only recently won a legal case to be able to return home, after the Egyptian government and fundamentalists in her country tried to take away her Egyptian citizenship for her play, "God Resigns at the Summit Meeting." Wings of the Butterfly met her at the Women's Worlds Congress 2008 which took place from July 3-9th in Madrid, Spain, where she gave a plenary talk entitled, "Creativity, Women & Dissidence."
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