G-Taw Zagar Wyne

"Our culture still doesn't accept that women can survive and exist without a man in her life."
Dr. Tin Mar Oo is a medical doctor, a feminist, and a single mother. She has been working in the areas of women's rights and gender equality for many years. As a feminist, she wrote articles on the issues related to women's rights violations in Myanmar. She also contributed her efforts in youth empowerment and has attended forums and conferences at the national and international levels. She studied for her master's degree in public health research and now working as a transformational leadership program manager at a local NGO called Center for social integrity. She also takes responsibility as a gender focal person in the organization and gave gender awareness and gender inclusion training for the local community in Rakhine state and for the humanitarian workers.
In this podcast, she talks about her journey of struggles and joys of becoming a single mother.
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Hnaung Moe Thae works as a Digital Safety Officer in the Digital Rights Team at MIDO. Digital Rights Team implements a program for effective mitigation of digital threats in Myanmar during the election period. As a Digital Safety Officer, she is responsible for conducting risk assessments and training, handling incidents coming from our Digital Security Helpline. She also handles " Digital Tea House '' Facebook page by writing content writing and other tasks for this page as well as develops the resources for campaigns. She co-hosts Digital Radio Evening podcast channel with one of her colleagues to provide digital literacy.
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"I am most passionate to work for peace, development, dignity, and rights of the nation."
B Esther Ze Naw B Esther Ze Naw is passionately focusing on Peace, Humanitarian, Ethnic Rights, and Dignity issues of the society. She also founded Mobile Library Foundation in 2012 with her friends to bring non-formal education activities through Mobile Libraries in Internally Displaced Peoples Camps where the massive population of young people at the schooling age lost their access to education when the conflict broke out.
She organized youths from urban areas and university students and advocated to involve in pro-peace activities when she was the students’/youth leader in several organizations, such as the Myanmar Institute of Theology, Students Christian Movement (Myanmar). She involved in the National-level Peace Process as a technical documenter of the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) during the NCCT and Government of Myanmar negotiations for the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement from early 2014 to late 2015.
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In this episode, we met with Ma Ohnmar Aung, a legend aka G-Taw who is one of the founding members of Mandalar Yaung Sin that works towards gender equality and women empowerment across Myanmar. She also works at Marie Stopes International since 2008. She shared her sister's story of going through very traumatizing experiences in her marriage with the abusive and violent man and what that have taught her and her sister. She also told us how her upbringing shapes her to become the kind of persona and parent that she aspires to be. Since the day she discovered the experiences that her sister went through Ma Ohnmar has been working towards ending inequality and injustices. It is a personal story like this that has driven a strong person like Ma Ohnmar to standup for justice. Learn more about her and her work via Facebook -- > www.facebook.com/ohnmar.aung.7545
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Phoebe aka Hnin Zaw Thu is an artist who is fond of writing and singing since she was a child. She graduated from Sunway University, Malaysia in 2016 with Communication Degree. Currently, she is working as a freelance communication specialist while making music part-time.
In this episode, we interviewed Phoebe to share with us about her journey of becoming an artist while still having a side job to sustain herself. She also opens to us about her childhood life and her thoughts on sisterhood, parenting, and love.
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"If you know what you want, please go for it and be stubborn about it."
Phoebe aka Hnin Zaw Thu is an artist who is fond of writing and singing since she was a child. She graduated from Sunway University, Malaysia in 2016 with Communication Degree. Currently, she is working as a freelance communication specialist while making music part-time.
In this episode, we interviewed Phoebe to share with us about her journey of becoming an artist while still having a side job to sustain herself. She also opens to us about her childhood life and her thoughts on sisterhood, parenting, and love.
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"I started Citta Counsaltancy because I wanted to educate people on mental health."
We sat down and did a live show with Ma Su Su Maung to talk about mental health education among Myanmar youth as well as the current situation on how they are dealing with the stress and panic.
Su Su Maung is the Founder, CEO, and Principal Consultant. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Board Certified Tele-Mental Health Provider, and a Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider. She has an MA in Counseling Psychology, a BA in Psychology, a Post-Graduate Advanced Training Certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, a Specialized Certificate in Online Teaching and a Certificate in Social Sector Leadership.
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"We now have a 30% quota system for women participation in politics. When we say 30% of minimum participation, I take 100% as maximum participation. However, the sad truth is that we don't really have 30% of women's participation in politics. This shows Myanmar is still a deeply patriarchal society."
This week's topic is Women & Politics discussed by Nang Ya Min, a secretary at Shan National League for Democracy. Is politics relate to women issues? Should women take an interest in politics? Why and why not? Listen to this podcast to hear from our wonderful speaker for this week below.
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Why We Should All Know About Safe Abortion. We sat down with doctors to talk about safe abortion while demystifying
myths that we hear a lot in Myanmar. We also collect voices of Myanmar public on abortion.
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The first-ever live podcast recording in Myanmar!

Feminist activist Nandar from Purple Feminists Group will explore what consent is and means in Myanmar with special guest Win Min Than. The discussions is recorded live on Women Weeks 4th March.
With the support of Any Rev TV and in partnership with the EU Delegation to Myanmar.

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Why host a podcast recording show?

A podcast live recording is an interactive, informative, and exciting event, which aims at capturing live audience reactions as the podcast is being recorded.

Podcasting live helps to create an organic conversation between the audience and the host. A live show gives listeners the chance to actually see the conversation unfold before them and even influence a show.

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Purple Feminists Group is a local grassroots organization founded in 2018 with the following purposes: to raise awareness on gender-based violence, to challenge menstrual taboos, to contextualize feminist literature, to amplify women's and girls’ voices through podcast and writing.

The aim of the podcast G-Taw Zagar Wyne is to generate and promote a community-led space that brings together women, as well as men, to talk about themes related to feminism and the female body in Myanmar.

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G-taw is airing to amplify, inspire and empower through dialogues and storytelling with legend girls and women.

How do you know when you are in a toxic relationship? How do you address them? How do you cut them off? What are the signs of healthy relationship? How can we build one?

Due to pandemic COVID 19, we are doing some exclusive podcast sessions to keep you occupied and informed about a variety of topics from relationship to health.

Stay tuned and share this podcast with your friends and family.

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G-taw is airing to inspire and empower through dialogues with legend women and girls.
For the very first episode of our season-1, we have invited G-taw Pyait Sone Win who is a poet, a doctor, and a teacher. In this episode, she shares her journey of from becoming a doctor to a teacher. She also emphasizes on her writing journey and love life with her beloved husband who she newly married to. Her perspective on writing, love, treatment and prevention is quite something to learn from.
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"The patriarchal system has existed around us in different forms. Our ancestors did their part in dismantling it and so are we. And I have no doubt that future generations will continue this fight till the end of it. "
In this episode, Naw Eunice a senior program officer at Swiss Aid Myanmar and a feminist gives us her perspective on the changes that Myanmar women from different have made to better the society and how that has led to such great involvement of women in this revolution. She also adds on talking about how in the midst of the coup, we see the significant visibility of people daring to be sexist and misogynist, and how patriarchy and dictatorship are intertwined. Finally, she highlights and encourages young people's participation in different sections-politics, economics,and social. Listen to the full episode to get a wholesome understanding of the progress and challenges that feminists in Myanmar have made and faced.

Speaker Bio: Naw Eunice was born in the brown zone in the Pago region where there is an armed conflict area. She was growing up in a Karen and Christian family. At the age of 5, her family moved to May Myo (Pyin Oo Lwin) and finished matriculation in 1997. She finished her graduate program (Bachelor of Theology) with the research topic “Violence Against Asian Women “in 2003. She earned her Master of Divinity in 2007 from the Myanmar Institute of Theology with the thesis topic “Implementing the Rights of the Child in Myanmar Churches Community”. She has almost fifteen years of experience working alongside women, girls, and youth as a trainer and facilitator. From 2016 to 2019 she worked as a Project Coordinator at Gender Studies Center – Myanmar Institute of Theology. In 2017, she attended the month-long capacity-building course on “Gender, Sustainable development, Peace, and Human Rights” organized by SANGAT – A Feminist Network in Nepal. And voluntarily working as a county coordinator of One Billion Rising. Currently, she is working as a Senior Program Officer (Gender and Livelihoods) at SWISSAID Myanmar since 2019.

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" I see two classes; the group that oppressed and those who are being oppressed.  If we want to demolish Burmanization, even the Bama community must know that they are being oppressed by the system because the oppressors are using the ideology to divide between Bamas and other ethnic groups. I would really prefer the reconciliation between the oppressed class to fight against the oppressors." 

Thawda Aye Lei, a Burmese published novelist, and social science researcher started her writing in 2002 and worked in the media field as a journalist. She obtained a master's degree in Development Practice from the University of Queensland in 2015, and in Gender, Human Rights, and Conflict Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands in 2016. She is surviving with two professionals; a social science researcher and as a writer. In 2017, she published her first novel "Silky Moonshade". She has published 4 novels and 2 short stories collections books so far.  She has also contributed many articles which were related to feminism and gender issues in the local papers. In 2019, she participated in a three-month International Writing Programme in Iowa, US.  In 2021, she enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.

"My dream is to educate people on what is necessary for all mankind."

Dr.Thet Su Htwe is one of the leading proponents of sexuality educations in Myanmar. Through her organization Strong Flowers, she has been spreading knowledge on sexuality as a tool for gender justice, humanist and feminist values among people in Myanmar. She is a medical doctor and a family physician by training. Her dream was to educate people on what is necessary for all mankind. 

She brings her religious identity which is her hijab (a headscarf) and showing the evidence of defending the rights of Muslim women to education, to earn a living, and to involve in societal change, and social harmony. Her strong feminist mindset embraces her struggles into the endeavor in most of her work-field. Beyond the regular SRHR education programs, she is now running a sexuality education program for women with disabilities in collaboration with one of the leading disabilities initiatives in Myanmar. Over 6 years, she has taught basic SRHR education to over 3500 adults and adolescents including people and youth with disabilities across Myanmar through Strong Flowers Sexuality Education Services.

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www.strongflowers.org

FB: https://www.facebook.com/Strong-Flowers-Sexuality-Education-Service-387910321316207

We are back, again!

Our guest is a gender, diversity, and inclusion specialist who has experiences working with both private and profit sectors. Her full name is Khin Hnin Su. She did a Master's study on Gender, Policy, and Inequalities from LSE (London school of economics and political sciences).

Out of her busy schedule, she is doing a sanitary pad fundraising campaign for women/girls in quarantine centers. She is here to share with us about this fundraising campaign on sanitary pads as well as her passion for equality. 

Please, go check the Fundraising Facebook page to learn about how you can donate and support this important action. 

Learn more about Khin Hnin Su--> https://www.linkedin.com/in/khinsu/

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Myanmar Podcast on Soundcloud --https://soundcloud.com/g-taw-zagar-wyne-podcast

Episode-2-We Need To Talk About Abortion-Sneha Nair-HTU

"We believe that every girl, woman,  and transgender in Myanmar deserves access to safe abortion."

G-Taw Zagar Wyne (English), Episode- 2 – We Need To Talk About Abortion

Featuring- HowToUseAbortionPill 

Speaker: Sneha Nair, Communication Officer

Abortion is a basic medical healthcare need for millions of women and girls and others who can become pregnant. This is not only health issues but also social justice issues. Like many countries in the world,  Myanmar also strictly prohibited this right and therefore, put the lives of many in danger. How do we normalize this conversation? This week,  G-Taw Zagar Wyne sat with HowToUseAbortionPill to discuss why safe, respectful, and legal abortion matters.

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"You don’t need to fight the way you see yourselves but you need to fight the way they see you."

This episode speaker is an artist named Chu Wai Nyein who has been active since 2008, when she began studying at the National  University of Arts and Culture and Technological University, Mandalay. She has had about 40 local and international exhibitions including  London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Warsaw, France, and Australia.

Chuu  Wai Nyein is interested in discovering and working with handcrafted materials, as can be seen in her paintings which showcases artwork made  in part with traditional htameins and longyis fabrics as canvases.

Many  of them have a woman’s face or skin replaced by the traditional  decorative flourishes from temple and court art. Others are painted on  the fabric used for women’s clothing, with the woven pattern showing  through the portrait. Many are sexy, playful, confident, thoughtful, and  are the women Chuu Wai Nyein sees among her peers.

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WELCOME TO MYANMAR FIRST FEMINIST PODCAST.

G-taw is airing to inspire and empower through dialogues with legend women and girls.  Amplifying women's and girls' voices in Myanmar to inspire for a better change.

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