Objective: To amplify women and girls voices through podcast
According to the 2014 Myanmar national census report, women and girls make up more than half of the country’s total population. However, women’s positions in media, politics and leadership roles are not representative. Rather, women are systematically marginalized and sidelined socio-politically, economically and culturally. As part of PFG’s mission, we work to promote women and girls’ voices to a larger audience so that they can be heard and integrated into critical sectors in society, such as politics, education, and healthcare.

Through the Myanmar Feminist Podcast, we will provide a platform for women and girls to voice their ideas and experiences to the broader community online. The Internet is increasingly playing a vital role in changing people’s mindset in Myanmar. We believe that using the relatively new accessibility of the internet in Myanmar to broadcast women’s ideas and intellect is key to reaching a broad audience and impacting community perspectives throughout the country. The topics will differ each week, as The Podcast will interview women who are working and struggling in different sectors of Myanmar society (i.e. a psychologist, a healthcare specialist, a laborer, a politician, a mother, a student, etc). In most cases, The Podcast will include a range of topics as most women wear multiple hats and must be responsible for multiple identities in their personal lives and society. The podcast will emphasize solutions and shed light on how women are already striving to improve not only their lives but better the path for the next generation of women and girls. The podcast will invite/interview women and girls from across all of the states and regions of Myanmar, including rural and hard-to-reach areas, to share their ideas and experiences. We have produced 9 episodes on Myanmar languages about abortion, menstruation, mental health, domestics violence and two episode in english about art and abortion.

https://purplefeminist.org/

• Myanmar

• Youth
• Women
• Remote and rural communities

Podcast is a very unpopular or unknown thing in Myanmar. Since we started our podcast, it become a very interesting thing that has been going on in Myanmar namar among people. We are the FIRST FEMINIST PODCAST that exists in Myanmar and very proud of it. Now, more and more young people are listening to our podcast to extend their mind on topics like menstruation, abortion, and mental even people with disabilities on reading and seeing (many in Myanmar who can't read even though they have visions) can still listen to the podcast since it is available in Myanmar language.

The project supports the WSIS principles such as a providing access to information and knowledge on a non-discriminatory and inclusive basis. It creates an enabling environment for women and girls, contributes to destroying gender-related stereotypes, and by using the podcasts it reaches out to a wider audience in even the remotest areas in Myanmar.