This year’s UN theme, “Trapped Behind the Scam,” asks the world to look at the people forced into online fraud. But we must also ask: what trapped them there, and who keeps profiting? Across Southeast Asia, trafficking networks weaponise marginalised communities’ need for dignified work. From Thailand serving as a key transit route 🇹🇭 to Laos’s Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone 🇱🇦 becoming a hub for forced criminality, punitive borders and neoliberal economic policies

To exist is to resist! Disability Justice IS Feminist Justice. 📣 Disability rights organiser and artist Patricia Berne reminds us, "We cannot comprehend ableism without grasping its interrelations with heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism." 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 through trauma, injury, and denial of ca

Across Southeast Asia, governments are sounding the alarm over declining birth rates and an impending “demographic crisis”. But let’s not pretend the crisis is that young people are having fewer children. Just look at the world they’ve inherited: climate collapse, rising authoritarianism, unaffordable housing, stagnant wages, unpaid care burdens, and deepening inequality. ⚠️ 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵 �

We jumped on the Millennial vs Gen Z social media trend, because hey, we're a proudly intergenerational feminist team at Manushya. And as a team of decolonial and intersectional feminists at Manushya, we don’t see the Global North and Global South as just geography. We see them as lived realities shaped by privilege, marginalisation, and structural inequality. You can live in the North and experience the realities of the South through poverty and exclusion. You can also live

A reminder for Lesbian Visibility Day: Being seen is not enough. We must refuse the erasure, silence, and violence that lesbians, sapphic women, and queer people still face even within progressive spaces.🧡🤍🩷 📢 As Pim, a queer woman human rights defender, reminds us: activist and political spaces must ALSO confront the lesbophobia, misogyny, and exclusion that too often push lesbian voices to the margins. As decolonial and intersectional feminists, we affirm how lesbians h

The women united will never be defeated! ✊🏽 Today on International Women’s Day , we’re celebrating women in all their intersecting diversities. International Women’s Day was born from the struggles of women workers organizing for dignity, fair wages, and justice. It was never meant to be a corporate celebration. It was, and still is, a movement. We honour the roots of this day by celebrating the voices and leadership of women too who continue to struggle for justice: women w

On this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we honor the leadership of persons with disabilities, especially women, queer folks, migrants, Indigenous peoples, and racialised communities whose struggles are too often erased. 📣 As Patricia Berne of Sins Invalid reminds us, “We cannot comprehend ableism without grasping its interrelations with heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism and capitalism.” Feminist movements fail unless we confront ableism and the s

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On 25 August 2017, over 800,000 Rohingya were forced to flee their homes in Myanmar to escape mass killings, sexual violence, and...

❗️Deadline is 11 August 2025! 🤳🏼We are looking for a dynamic, Intersectional Feminist Communications Manager to help us implement...

#CEDAW ✊🏽 Manushya brings the voices of the Women Fighting Corporate Abuse and Climate Injustice in Thailand to the UN!🇺🇳 🇹🇭 On 19 June, during its 91st Session, the UN CEDAW Committee reviewed Thailand’s performance on women’s and girls’ rights. We made sure the CEDAW Committee heard what the government did not say: Rural, Indigenous, and ethnic women in Thailand are paying the highest price for unchecked business practices, land grabs, and climate inaction! Together wi

🌈Pride Month has come and gone once more. While it has brought a lot of joy, we witness recurring examples of why there is still so much...

🌈Pride Month has come and gone once more. While it has brought a lot of joy, we witness recurring examples of why there is still so much...

📚Amidst a #Media landscape increasingly trying to silence, co-opt, and erase #Intersectional queer narratives, we must continue to...

This #PrideMonth, we honour our queer siblings across Southeast Asia and the Global Majority — those who resist every day, not just for...