Emily Daina Šaras is a Massachusetts Promise Fellow in youth empowerment and social justice, working with disadvantaged teens at a nonprofit organization in Boston, USA. After graduating from Wellesley College in 2010, Emily was a Fulbright Fellow in Lithuania, and earned Fulbright-Hays and Smith-Mundt grants from the US Embassy for her work teaching Lithuanian youth…
Tag: Sexuality
Social Media Helped Egyptians Win Their Revolution, and now it is Helping Them in Their Fight against Sexual Harassment
Heba Elsayed is a doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics. Heba’s thesis, comparing three different classes in Cairo, examines the construction of young Egyptians’ cosmopolitan identities at the juxtaposition of a socially divided urban world. In her guest post for RE.FRAMING ACTIVISM, Heba examines HarassMap, a new initiative in Egypt. Egyptians may have…