Humanitarian Handicrafts

This paper asks how craft practice can inform historical reconsiderations of handicraft produced within a humanitarian socio-economic framework (to support humanitarian aims or fund-raising initiatives), and in turn explores how historical processes become materialised in contemporary humanitarian craftwork.By considering the possibilities for prac

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The persistent power of stigma: A critical review of policy initiatives to break the menstrual silence and advance menstrual literacy.

Menstruation is shrouded in stigma and shame-that is the common refrain in burgeoning initiatives on menstrual health and hygiene.Public policies alone cannot undo stigma and enact social change, but they do interact with social norms.They ProSeries Lighting Parts can reflect and adopt stigmatizing attitudes and, as a result, institutionalize, form

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