NEW photo exhibit showcases SRHR activism

A new photo exhibit co-curated by Inter Pares and three international social justice organizations documents sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) activism in Bangladesh, El Salvador and the Philippines.

daughters, mothers, grandmothers and other sexual outlaws showcases intergenerational efforts to advance sexual health and rights in contexts that are hostile towards bodily autonomy for girls, women and gender-diverse people. This work is essential—and comes with great risk.

The exhibit will launch in Ottawa on September 21st from 2:00 to 5:00p.m. at Gallery 101 and will be open for public viewing until October 19th. It features the talent of photographers Taslima Akhter (Bangladesh), Jessica Xiomara Orellana Ventura (El Salvador) and Lisa Marie David (the Philippines).

“daughters, mothers, grandmothers and other sexual outlaws captures strength and creativity in the struggle for sexual health and rights,” says Nathalia Santos Ocasio, Latin America program manager at Inter Pares. “The exhibit aims to deepen understandings of what activism looks like around the world. We also hope it sparks conversations around longstanding and urgent struggles to access reproductive health services, both globally and in Canada.”

Inter Pares, based in Ottawa, is a feminist social justice organization that believes in solidarity, not charity, as an approach to international cooperation. For nearly 50 years, Inter Pares has collaborated with courageous activists and inspiring organizations throughout the world to build peace, advance justice and globalize equality.

Gallery 101 is an artist-run-centre committed to exhibiting self-representations of decolonizing counternarratives. G101 honours and respects the original people of the territory we currently occupy: unceded and unsurrendered Anishnaabe-Aki who have been living and working on this land since time immemorial. G101 acknowledges support from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council - an Ontario government agency, the City of Ottawa, programming partners, and all our relations.

The exhibit is part of a collaboration between Inter Pares and longstanding counterparts Nijera Kori (Bangladesh), La Colectiva Feminista para el desarrollo local (El Salvador) and Likhaan Center for Women’s Health (the Philippines). The work documented in the exhibit was supported through the project Strategic Interventions to Build Momentum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, funded by Global Affairs Canada.

For more information, please contact:

• Nathalia Santos Ocasio, Inter Pares, nsantosocasio@interpares.ca
• Kristina Corre, Gallery 101, office@g101.ca