Interview

Preparations continue for the first workshops in the “Exploring Taboos” project organized by the team from the Cairo-based group Nazra for Feminist Studies, one of the three projects in Egypt currently being supported by Rising Voices. One of the group's coordinators, Fatma Emam provides an overview and history of the group, as well as the goals of the planned workshops. Currently, the group is taking applications and interviewing potential participants to gauge their interest in learning how to use citizen media to discuss these sensitive issues relating to gender.

Getutza admits that she is a timid person. However, she has discovered that blogging has helped her overcome this shyness thanks to her participation in the Blogging the Dream project from the Orizonturi Foundation in Campulung Moldovenesc in Romania. Ever since she started her blog Singuratate [ro], she has found an outlet to express her thoughts, feelings, and experiences. In a recent interview with Rising Voices, Getutza said:

Back in 2005, Nora Catalina Urquijo already had a blog on MSN Live Spaces [es], but says in an interview with Rising Voices about her early days blogging, “what I didn't know was the power that a blog could have.” Nearly two years later after joining the HiperBarrio project in the La Loma neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia, Nora Catalina has found out firsthand what its power can do for her, for her neighborhood, and for others.

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