The story behind this month's cover.
We commissioned the artist Maria Maria Acha-Kutscher Indignadas to illustrate a protest by 28-year-old Brazilian journalist, Nana Queiroz, against rape culture.
She struck a blow against victim-blaming last March when she posted a
photo of herself topless with the words ‘Eu Não Mereço Ser Estuprada’
(‘I don’t deserve to be raped’) written across her body.
It was
her outraged response to a survey that claimed 65 per cent of Brazilians
thought that a provocatively dressed woman deserved to be raped. The
research institute later revised its figures down to 26 per cent – still
a quarter of those polled.
The post went viral, with thousands
of women and men uploading their own pictures. Consequently, Queiroz met
with President Dilma Rousseff and is helping to draft a document to
outline how to educate schoolchildren in gender issues.
Girls strike a pose for an advert for GoldieBox. One of the
companies bucking the gendered toy divide, it makes engineering toys for
girls.
Nick Ut/AP/Press Association Images
