{"id":996,"date":"2015-11-09T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T09:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csbronline.org\/?p=996"},"modified":"2016-01-12T05:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T05:19:25","slug":"one-day-one-struggle-2015-vision-hosts-poster-exhibition-to-deconstruct-stigma-marginalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"VISION hosts Poster Exhibition to Deconstruct Stigma & Marginalization"},"content":{"rendered":"

For One Day One Struggle 2015, VISION is\u00a0organizing a poster exhibit on sexuality rights\u00a0in Pakistan,\"VISION-PK\"<\/a> focusing on personal reflection and self-discovery as a starting point to deconstruct\u00a0stigma and discrimination.<\/p>\n

For VISION, this is a\u00a0continuation of long-standing\u00a0programming on sexual and gender diversity that began in the late ’90s, with outreach to hijra communities in Pakistan. Today their efforts are focusing on building solidarity and connections with a wider circle of women’s rights and development sector groups in Pakistan to take up the issue of sexuality\u00a0and gender identity.<\/p>\n

Tahir Khilji\u00a0shared with us thebackground to the event:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor One Day One Struggle, we are planning is a poster exhibit, and these posters are coming from photographs that we took at a workshop with partner organizations on a larger project on gender and sexual identity. That workshop brought together women’s organizations, development organizations, and more mainstream civil society groups in Pakistan. For many of them, this was the first time they were talking about the\u00a0diversity that exists within sexuality and the sexual rights framework. It was very interesting to have them there for three days.<\/p>\n

\"odos-csbr-2\"With everyone’s permission, we documented\u00a0participants’ expressions as we worked through the activities over the three days. For example, photos from when we talked about\u00a0labelling, when we talked about stigma and\u00a0how it impacts people; when we started exploring sexuality and how on the basis of diversity within sexuality people are discriminated against; the feelings of isolation, of rejection that\u00a0all of us at some point in our lives have felt. You know for one reason or another, we have all been isolated. And it may not because of our sexuality\u00a0at all, but each person would reflect on those experiences of marginalization, and its those reflective moments that have been captured in these photos.”<\/p>\n

For\u00a0VISION, the journey of self-discovery is a means of\u00a0self-empowerment and self-actualization. Its a journey critical to\u00a0breaking down social barriers, especially when it comes to sexual and bodily rights. The method focuses on getting participants to a shared starting point, and from that common ground moving the conversations into exploring and articulating\u00a0what\u00a0underlies prejudices and openness.<\/p>\n

“When\u00a0we\u00a0moved onto the reflective\u00a0journey and talking about our\u00a0own experiences and perspectives on sexualities, we began by looking at friendships. You know, exploring what we think of different forms of\u00a0intimacy,\u00a0what’s ‘too close’, what is not, and why. And its those questions that form the captions of the posters. … And for some participants they shared with us after the workshop that it was really eye opening. That this was the first time\u00a0for some women to really unpack what it means to have control over one’s body.<\/p>\n

So with this\u00a0event we want to display the posters as a canvas, and say “Hey, Look at this canvas; what we think it\u00a0says is that when you discover yourself, then you become very empowered and you discover others also. You begin to understand other people’s\u00a0perspective as well. So may it be about sexual rights, or other\u00a0rights, but the goal is that you stop saying ‘This is bad, because this person is of a different orientation, or has made a different choice’. That judgement point comes down. And\u00a0that\u2019s the goal.”<\/p>\n

The #OneDayOneStruggle event\u00a0will bring together stakeholders from the development sector, rights activists, media and academics to view the poster exhibit, and join a panel and discussion\u00a0reflecting on the methodology as a tool for sensitisation and advocacy on sexuality and gender identity and expression.\u00a0For more information about the event<\/strong>, get in touch with us at coordinator@csbronline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For One Day One Struggle 2015, VISION is\u00a0organizing a poster exhibit on sexuality rights\u00a0in Pakistan, focusing on personal reflection and self-discovery as a starting point to deconstruct\u00a0stigma and discrimination. For VISION, this is a\u00a0continuation of long-standing\u00a0programming on sexual and gender diversity that began in the late ’90s, with outreach to hijra communities in Pakistan. Today … Continue reading VISION hosts Poster Exhibition to Deconstruct Stigma & Marginalization<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,10,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-featured","category-members","category-odos","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}