by Catriona | 5 Feb, 2018 | BRAVA Interviews, Issue 02
As a child, Hyeonseo Lee believed that her country, North Korea, was the best place on the planet. It wasn‘t until the devastating famine in the 1990s that she began to question what she had been taught. She escaped to China in 1997 at the age of 17, by crossing a...
by Catriona | 5 Feb, 2018 | BRAVA Interviews, Issue 02
Sakdiyah Ma’ruf grew up watching American sit-coms, and decided to use comedy as a means to get people talking about religious intolerance in her country, the largest Muslim country in the world. She was to become Indonesia’s first Muslim female stand-up comic....
by Catriona | 5 Feb, 2018 | BRAVA Interviews, Issue 02
A former UN Person of the Year, recipient of the French government’s ‘Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur’ award, and daughter of former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Marina Mahathir is a socio-political activist and writer. She began her career in...
by Catriona | 5 Feb, 2018 | BRAVA Books & Films, Issue 02
A rising star of Iranian literature, writer and former journalist Shokoofeh Azar was incarcerated in prison in Iran for speaking up about women’s rights, among other subjects. She managed to flee to Australia, where she was kept in a detention centre for seven months....
by Catriona | 4 Feb, 2018 | BRAVA Guidance & Tips, Issue 02
by Catriona Mitchell Feeling voiceless must be one of the greatest forms of suffering on the planet, and it’s an issue that affects women a lot, regardless of nationality or background – as we’re only beginning to find out, with more and more women coming forward to...
