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Susan Jessop

Opinion Esther Lever and Susan Jessop 26 July 2020

Funders must be agile, courageous and creative in COVID-19 times: How Mama Cash is supporting locally-rooted strategies amidst the global pandemic

In the early days of the pandemic, Mama Cash knew that our first job, as always, was to listen. We reached out to grantee-partners to ask what they were experiencing. We listened and we learned …

Analysis Susan Jessop 13 July 2020

Adapting to changing landscapes: How women, girls, trans, and intersex people are addressing COVID-19

What Mama Cash is hearing from its partners around the world about their strategies for dealing with the global pandemic ‘We are putting self- and collective-care into practice and not losing hope that [the pandemic] …

Analysis Susan Jessop 29 June 2020

Living the crisis and the change: How women, girls, trans, and intersex people are coping with COVID-19 around the world

What Mama Cash is hearing from its partners about the gendered impacts of the global pandemic The Covid-19 pandemic will leave no person untouched, but it will not touch us all equally. At Mama Cash, …

Opinion 1 Susan Jessop 17 November 2019

Courageous women are organising everywhere, and they need our support

With so many active and inspiring groups around the world, Mama Cash calls upon a broad community of funders to resource feminist organising. In her 2015 poem ‘What They Did Yesterday Afternoon’, Warsan Shire writes, …

Opinion Susan Jessop 7 March 2018

Lesbian, bisexual and queer activists on the frontline

‘Most of us cannot be open about our sexuality without the risk of bullying, being fired, or violence. Under the influence of Russian anti-gay propaganda, the climate has not become more friendly in recent years’, …

Opinion Susan Jessop and Kellea Miller 7 December 2017

Our voices are strong: why self-led activism works

Every voice matters. But impoverishment, injustice and violence in communities around the world routinely serve to silence women, girls and trans people. This leaves them little choice but to fight to be heard and to …

Conference reports Susan Jessop 29 April 2017

Who talks, who listens?

On the narrow stone streets in Barcelona’s Raval district, sex worker activists tell us the stories of their neighbourhood. Of gentrification that has squeezed many out, of police harassment and being fined simply for being …