{"id":2070,"date":"2009-04-14T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/browse\/948"},"modified":"2009-04-14T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:32:00","slug":"its-all-about-young-and-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/its-all-about-young-and-old\/","title":{"rendered":"IT\u2019S ALL ABOUT YOUNG AND OLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">IT\u2019S ALL ABOUT YOUNG AND OLD<\/span><\/strong><br \/><\/span><br \/>Privileged to attend AFF, AWID, and AWLI that happned back to back in the last quarter of last year, and being the die hard apostle of inclusion that I am, I could not help but note a somewhat disturbing trend in our programmes, discourses and presentations in these esteemed gatherings which to me shape and chart the directions taken by women\u2019s movement both regionally and globally.<\/p>\n<p>It is commendable that after feminists have shouted themselves hoarse on the matter, the movement is now accommodating young women. (We shall leave the debate on the cut off age for qualification as \u2018young\u2019 or \u2018old\u2019 for another day and another blog.) Anyway, the crux of the matter I am tabling (interneting ?) before you is that including young women seem to have happened at the opportunity cost of excluding the \u2018not so young women. Yes, there are some of us who see ourselves as in between young and old by whatever yardstick of measurement young and old age are defined. For convenience and for the purpose of this protest I shall borrow the tail end of youngish and oldish and refer to us as the \u2018Ish, Ish\u2019, or the  NTBC (Not There, But Close).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Ish Ish group are now complaining that Feminism has taken a new turn to include only the young and the old. Is this true? If yes, what are the implications, if no, why not. I look forward to your responses.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Roselynn<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT\u2019S ALL ABOUT YOUNG AND OLDPrivileged to attend AFF, AWID, and AWLI that happned back to back in the last quarter of last year, and being the die hard apostle of inclusion that I am, I could not help but note a somewhat disturbing trend in our programmes, discourses and presentations in these esteemed gatherings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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