Exhibition: daughters, mothers, grandmothers, and other sexual outlaws
Reproductive Justice NB, the Madhu Verma Migrant Justice Centre and Inter Pares present:
daughters, mothers, grandmothers, and other sexual outlaws
When: March 2025. The exhibition will be ready for viewing on March 5 and will be on display until the end of March.
Where: Charlotte Street Art Centre. 732 Charlotte St., Fredericton. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Featuring the photographs of Taslima Akhter, Lisa Marie David, and Jessica Xiomara Orellana Ventura, daughters, mothers, grandmothers and other sexual outlaws provide a glimpse into the lives and struggles of feminist activists working on sexual and reproductive health rights in El Salvador, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.
Marking International Women’s Day, the Charlotte Street Art Centre is hosting, Only Men May Vote! – A Tale of Fredericton Women’s Lost and Found Voting Rights, on March 7 at 7:30 PM at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre. Check out the exhibition for free and get tickets for the IWD event here: https://www.
Can’t make it in person? Visit the Virtual Exhibition here: https://app.lapentor.com/
Inter Pares –which means among equals– is a 50-year-old feminist social justice organization based in Ottawa that believes in solidarity, not charity, as an approach to international cooperation. Inter Pares’ partners, La Colectiva Feminista para el Desarrollo Local (El Salvador), Nijera Kori (Bangladesh) and Likhaan Center for Women’s Health (the Philippines), are advancing sexual and reproductive health rights, and addressing sexual and gender-based violence, access to contraceptives and abortion, and child marriage. Their work is dangerous – thus the term ‘sexual outlaws.’
Most of the people represented in this exhibition are girls and women. But as the title indicates, they are also daughters, mothers, grandmothers but don’t always fit neatly into those labels. What the exhibition shows is mothers talking to daughters, grandmothers talking to mothers, daughters talking to both. And opinions and knowledge getting shared and discussed, and people changing – including boys and men. A daughter is encouraged to use contraception by her mother. A daughter encourages her mother to go to the protest against sexual and gender-based violence. A grandmother accepts her granddaughter as queer. Fathers support their daughters to become strong, independent women who make their own decisions. They collectively build momentum for sexual and reproductive health rights.
The daughters, mothers, grandmothers and other sexual outlaws exhibition also wishes to instigate timely conversations about the status of sexual and reproductive health rights in Canada and beyond —
- The Canadian Health Coalition is applauding the announcement of $219 million over four years for universal coverage of a range of contraceptives and diabetes medications for Manitobans. Which province will sign the next pharmacare deal?
- US aid cuts will make world ‘less healthy, less safe and less prosperous’: UN Secretary General
- Holt repeals ban on Medicare-funded abortions outside hospitals
The exhibition is part of the project, Strategic Interventions to Build Momentum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, funded by Global Affairs Canada.
For more information, email info@madhucentre.ca.
