Rangkaian Acara Kampanye 28 September Hari Aksi Global untuk Aborsi yang Aman dan Legal Samsara

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September 24, 2013

Oleh: Joseph Ryan Korbarri

Kampanye Global 28 September dilahirkan pada saat WGNRR (Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights) bergabung dalam Kampanye Amerika Latin dan Karibia untuk menghentikan kriminalisasi terhadap aborsi di tahun 2011. Kampanye Amerika Latin dan Karibia tersebut sudah mulai mempromosikan penghentian kriminalisasi terhadap aborsi dan akses aborsi aman dan legal sejak tahun 1990 di Amerika Latin.

Kampanye ini menyerukan tentang kebebasan rahim, hak perempuan untuk diakui sebagai orang yang setara yang memiliki hak dan otoritas atas tubuh mereka sendiri. Dari aksi perjuangan inilah kemudian dikenal sebagai hari “rahim yang merdeka”. Tahun 2013 ini Samsara melakukan rangkaian aksi dalam rangka memperingati kampanye 28 September di Yogyakarta. antara lain:

Kampanye Social Media
Samsara akan melakukan kampanye di Social media bekerja sama dengan partner lokal, nasional, regional, dan internasional seperti WGNRR, ASAP, dll

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Sejarah 28 September

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September 9, 2013

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Hari Aksi Global Untuk Aborsi Aman dan Legal

28 September akan segera datang! Tanggal ini adalah hari istimewa karena merupakan Hari Aksi Global untuk Aborsi Aman dan Legal. Ditanggal ini, organisasi-organisasi dari seluruh dunia dan individu-individu akan menyelenggarakan aksi demonstrasi, diskusi, pemutaran film dan banyak jenis acara lainnya untuk membangkitkan kesadaran masyarakat tentang dampak dari aborsi tidak aman dan illegal. Saat ini tim Samsara sedang membuat persiapan kampanye 28 September. Sembari kami mempersiapkan kampanye ini, kami berfikir bahwa akan menjadi hal yang sangat menarik diketahui oleh semua orang untuk melihat ke belakang tentang bagaimana sejarah perjuangan ini dilahirkan.

Kampanye Global 28 September dilahirkan pada saat WGNRR (Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights) bergabung dalam Kampanye Amerika Latin dan Karibia untuk menghentikan kriminalisasi terhadap aborsi di tahun 2011.

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The Everyday Violence of Being A Woman

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Agustus 30, 2013

By Anonymous

She told us about her thought of being a woman. And this is her self reflection.

But you will never be a man. And is to wish to be so wrong? Is it anti-feminist to desire to live without the fear of sexual assault ‘naturally’ brought about by my possession of a vagina? Let alone the daily discriminations which are so entrenched that most of society doesn’t even notice them. Yes that’s hair under my arms. Don’t you grow it?

Deep down I do not want to be a man. I like being a woman. I like my body – it’s the one I’ve got and 25 years have made me pretty comfortable in it. But this comfort has come slowly and despite rather than because of society and its normative ideas. It’s a comfort that I fought for, a hard fight against a beast that still rears its head from time to time. And when I think of the battles I faced I get angry. Because they were so hard and to society they are nothing. There are billions of women who face the same battles or even harsher ones every day. Society does not care. Every moment a woman is being raped, violated, placed second, mutilated, denied, forgotten, silenced, simply because she is ‘she’. And we do not care. Even the ‘she’s in the ‘we’ do not care. Not enough.

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Talk About It

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Agustus 23, 2013

Even in a supportive context, getting comfortable with our bodies as they develop sexually can be a challenge. This challenge is multiplied when society makes sex and all things relating to It taboo. Sara Barnes, Intern at Samsara shares her experience

My mother was amazing. I don’t remember when I first learnt what sex was because I don’t remember ever not knowing, there was never an ‘oh the birds and bees, and, well storks or…’ awkward conversation because from the first my mother approached sex and reproduction as something that happened. It helped that I had a keen interest in the natural world, watched hundreds of animal documentaries and was raised in a home that believed people were just another kind of animal. Years before I reached puberty my mother gave me a book called “How Your Body Works”, sometimes we read it together, sometimes she left me to flick through it alone. I knew I would start menstruating years before I did, I looked forward to it with a mixture of apprehension and excitement.

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Safer Sex: Seks yang Aman dan Menyenangkan*

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Juli 9, 2013

Diterjemahkan oleh: Joseph Ryan Korbarry

SexEd-1920x1080_sceenad — Iklan untuk seks aman di Inggris

Seks yang dilakukan dengan persetujuan dapat menjadi sesuatu yang menyenangkan (pleasure). Seks memungkinkan kita untuk mengekspresikan cinta, gairah, dan keintiman. Sayangnya, seks juga bisa beresiko pada kehamilan yang tidak direncanakan, Infeksi Menular Seksual (IMS ) dan HIV. Dalam beberpa kasus, IMS dapat ditangani secara medis. Namun, beberapa IMS, jika dibiarkan dan tidak ditangani secara tepat, dapat berdampak serius pada kesehatan jangka panjang. Untuk itu kita harus mengenal apa itu safer sex. Safer sex adalah kegiatan atau aktifitas seksual yang dilakukan secara aman dalam rangka pencegahan terhadap kehamilan yang tidak direncanakan, Infeksi Menular seksual, dan HIV & AIDS.

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Kekerasan Seksual Itu “Bukan Cuma!”

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Mei 13, 2013

By: Tia Setiyani, Konselor Samsara

Banyak orang memandang bahwa kekerasan seksual adalah hal yang biasa, cenderung menyalahkan korban kekerasan seksual dan menutup mata seolah kejadian itu hanya bisa terjadi pada orang lain. Kenyataannya, kekerasan seksual bisa terjadi pada siapa saja dan dimana saja (di rumah, di tempat sepi atau tempat ramai). Pelakunya bisa siapa saja bahkan orang terdekat. Ada hal yang luput dalam menanggapi kasus kekerasan seksual yakni pemahaman definisi kekerasan seksual itu sendiri.

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Thinking about ‘Grassroots’

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April 26, 2013

By Sara Barnes

As a community based organisation we often use the word grassroots to describe our efforts, but what exactly do we mean by grassroots and how can we better understand the term to better our efforts?

Grassroots is an adjective used to describe something which is perceived as ‘natural’ and ‘grows’ from the ground or bottom. In a societal context, the grassroots are building blocks of our society, individual people and their immediate communities. From this, a grassroots issue can be understood as one which directly affects people in a specific community on the individual level. A movement which acts on this issue forms ‘naturally’ when individuals begin organising around it within their community. Thus when we speak of a grassroots organisation we mean an organisation that forms and ‘grows’ within a community in response to the experiences of individuals who belong to that community.

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Government, Society and Public Space for Activism

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April 22, 2013

By Sara Barnes

Activism traditionally takes place in public space, the arena available to everyday citizens for interaction. The scope of interactions which are possible within this space is governed by the government and by the society which engages within it. The government uses constitutional constraints and criminal laws to regulate what is allowed in this space. Ayoob theorises that the provision and regulation of public space can be used by governments to limit activities which are considered extreme (2008). By allowing the majority of people to express their opinions and interact without fear, more radical ideologies find it harder to gain followers. In addition the limitations imposed by government make it difficult for those ideologies considered extreme or to be a danger to the current regime.