A big thank you to all the fans, friends and supporters who suggested feminist slogans to us. This is the selection of feminist taglines we’ve short-listed following your online submissions and our additional brainstorming sessions.

To vote for your favorite feminist slogans, kindly tick no more than 8 choices. We’re planning to produce 4 T-Shirts, 2 bags and 2 stickers (equally divided between Arabic and English).

Voting closes Friday, July 9, 2010.

We’re planning to roll out feminist T-Shirts in the coming weeks and we’d like to ask for  your suggestions for catchy feminist slogans.

Slogans can be in English, Arabic (colloquial or classical) or French. You can send as many as you can think of.

We’ll choose the catchiest ones and print them on our T-Shirts.

So, yalla, put your creative thinking caps on and post your slogans in the below comment box.

The comments will be closed on Friday, 18 June 2010.

Nasawiya calls on the international feminist community to add their voices to these wonderful women’s organizations who have issued statements condemning the vicious Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla on May 31, 2010. We urge you to stand in solidarity with the 700 brave activists who put their lives on the line in order to break the siege in Gaza, Palestine. There is no real justice for women anywhere without justice for the millions of Palestinian women living in exile, under occupation, under the apartheid regime of Israel, in illegal prisons, and/or under daily military economic, political, gender, and sexual violence. Please add your voices to the Avaaz petition, read the following statements by international women’s rights organizations, and leave us a comment if you know of any other feminist statements made so we can add them here.

• Global Fund for Women Condemns Israeli Attack on Freedom Flotilla
• Nobel Women’s Initiative condemns Gaza flotilla attack
• MADRE Condemns Israel’s Killing of Activists Bringing Humanitarian Aid to Gaza
• Women for Women’s Human Rights condemns the violence and offensive policies employed by the Israeli state
• CODEPINK Condemns Israeli Attack on Gaza Flotilla
• Aswat-Palestinian Queer Women Condemns Israel’s Raid on Gaza Aid Flotilla
• Association for Women in Development (AWID) Condemns Israeli Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla (Read the statement in French and Spanish.)

Secularism has been a critical demand in Lebanon ever since the declaration of independence. Unable to counter the confessional and sectarian loyalties in the years of the civil war, the question of a secular state rises once again to the fore of political life in Lebanon. This question reflects the need of the Lebanese people to be assured that the present years of civil “peace” will not be interrupted.

Taking place on 25 April 2010, the Laïque Pride march represents a sincere initiative by citizens who would like to have a direct relationship with the state, without a mediator in between. Secularism in a country as diverse as Lebanon represents true coexistence, while the current sectarian system represents a crisis.

Women’s interest in a secular state goes in parallel with their struggle for equality, justice and full citizenship. Women’s call for a secular state goes hand in hand with the demands for protection from family and gender-based violence. Secularism allows women to be emancipated from sectarian laws that effect their lives and choices, including marriage, inheritance, and custody among other issues.

We call upon all concerned citizens, women’s rights NGOs, women from all sects and religions, and women of conforming and non-conforming sexualities to march with us in the Nasawiya feminist block, as we demand a secular state in Lebanon.

For more information on how to join us, contact us on 01-447 192 or write to farah[at]nasawiya.org.

For more information on Laïque Pride, see the event’s Facebook Page.

We’re thrilled to invite you to an informal chat entitled “Another World Is Here: Anarchism and Collective Living in Barcelona” with our dear queer feminist anarchist Leil.

The talk will take place on Friday, 16 April 2010 at 7:00 PM at our office in Mar Mikhael. (Call 01-447 192 for directions.)

Leil will be sharing his personal experience with hallucinations about gender, queer theory, anti-capitalism, radical practices and alternatives.

This is a talk you don’t want to miss.

So join us this Friday and bring your friends along for exceptional real-life stories from another world.