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Creating safe spaces, a sense of belonging and ‘ibasho’ for women refugees in Tokyo

  • Christina Fukuoka and Professor David Slater,

An innovative project provides emotional support and social networks for women refugees amid very limited state support.

The visual language of Japanese youth’s self-expression and self-promotion on TikTok

  • Dr Sonja Petrovic,

Young women use Tik Tok to critique and challenge gender stereotypes and norms.

Gender equity reversals and women’s responses to COVID-19 in rural Indonesia

  • A/Prof Rachael Diprose, Dr Ken M.P. Setiawan & Bronwyn Beech Jones,

Women who had developed skills, networks, knowledge, and confidence through CSO programs were better placed to respond to the pandemic.

Issues for working women as debated in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly

  • Dr Hiroko Levy and Dr Emma Dalton,

What do female politicians in Japan raise as crucial issues for gender equality?

Malaysian ‘matriliny’: past, present and future

  • Associate Professor Maila Stivens,

Will the thoroughly modern matriliny of Negeri Sembilan produce further new imaginings and new politics?

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