What about Muslim women's empowerment? Exploring Sex, Shame, Religion and Culture.

Everything we grow up with is normal to us, no matter if it really is or isn’t a good way to live. If we are brought up with abuse in our family or even system, we don’t see it as such. We have no words to describe and communicate the suffering and discomfort we experience, as they are not recognised as such, in an environment where they are the norm and you must simply deal with it all. 

For this webinar, we have invited Ruby Usman, who is the founder of The Unshaming Project. Ruby was born in the slums of Karachi, Pakistan. She has experienced sexual abuse at the hands of many men as a child; some of them strangers and others, close family members. She grew up as a Muslim woman and witnessed violence and shaming of women recognising it as an integral part of society and culture.…