Keep Our Kids Safe on the Internet
Community leader Hamida Yusufzai created these 8 short videos as a resource for parents, teachers, and fellow community leaders to help our young people stay safe online. The topics of security, privacy, and healthy boundaries are discussed, as well as how to employ skills that develop resiliency and preventative critical thinking. Hamida gives us guidance and a wake up call to educate ourselves so that we can support and protect our young people.
Learn the Basics of Self Defense
Always be aware of your surroundings and take precautions to not become a victim. Avoid looking down on your phone while you are walking and always be aware of who is in front and behind you. It’s always a good idea to have your keys ready before you arrive at your door in case you need to move quickly. Protect your sisters.
We Fight Back is a self-defense program intended to help women and girls stay alive and safer. We believe that liberation is an embodied practice. In a society where girls are groomed to victimhood, while boys are socialized to be dominant, sexually aggressive and violent, programs are needed that create space for women to discover and develop their physical and emotional strength. Many women and girls live with trauma of past assaults. Many live with the fear of future physical, sexual and emotional assault. Women and girls face routine violence from men—from childhood sexual abuse and street harassment to sexual assault, battery and murder. We believe that knowing how to protect oneself, believing in ones own self worth, knowing the strength of one’s own body is knowledge that leads to empowerment. We Fight Back supports women and girls as they develop self-love and fight for their right to walk tall and stand strong.
Hamida is an instructor of reality based self defense. She runs short term programs and drop ins for women and girls. The sessions are comprised of martial arts and consciousness raising; an attempt at decolonizing patriarchy and the myths around gendered violence. ‘We Fight Back’ helps prevent community trauma and builds resilience; in spiritual, mental and physical ways. By creating a space that holds you, supports you, hears you and strengthens you, filling your tool box with resources, and new skills. Running programs such as We Fight Back, is a response to the epidemic of male violence against women and girls. A way through this despair is through reflection and action; and creating sista-hood. Hamida is trained in martial arts, and boxing and is an anti sex trafficking practitioner here in Oakland.
Contact (510) 318-4438 for information on how to book/access classes.
Check out more of our cyber safety resources here:
Credits
Produced by GIRL Project in partnership with Banteay Srei. Created in Shelter in Place 2020.
GIRL Project is supported by individual donors, the California Arts Council, and our very special Fairy Godmother.
Special thanks to the creators:
Claudine Naganuma
Hamida Yusufzai
Isabelle Osorio
Isha Pema
Joyous
Ellie Kerwin
This activity is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov. Any findings, opinions, or conclusions contained herein are not necessarily those of the California Arts Council.