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mHealth for Girls: “Hanging” with Choma

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by Jenn Warren

CHOMA Magazine is your best friend and big sister – inspiring, supporting and motivating you to make informed positive life choices to live healthily and HIV free [1].

Embracing technology in an effort to reach adolescent and teenage girls, CHOMA Magazine exists exclusively online and on mobile. Meaning hanging in Zulu, CHOMA focusses on young girls and women between the ages of 15 and 25 years, whether they are at school, unemployed or employed, or single, in a relationship, or married.

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The Case of…

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by Eleni Maria Rozali

Elliot Toger made headlines back in May 2014 with the University of California, Santa Barbara 2014 killings. There he killed six people, injured 13 others and committed suicide.

The police investigation revealed him as an extreme misogynist, inspired to kill women because they had no sexual interest in him. This shocking, yet extreme case, alarmed women across the globe; they took to Twitter and the hashtag #YesAllWomen was born, enabling them to use it on social media to share their stories and experiences of male harassment.

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Feminist vs Feminazi

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Feminist or “feminazi”?

by Eleni Maria Rozali

Surely you have read about the recent toxic debate: a high-flying barrister, Charlotte Proudman, accused a solicitor of sexism for complimenting her profile pic on LinkedIn, who then took to Twitter exposing him for his comments. This is when trouble began… The barrister was branded a “feminazi”, she was trolled on social media for “shaming the feminist movement” and was told her career would be ruined for “outing” a colleague.

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