TRANSFORM News Magazine
May 2025| Issue 3
All contributions in this issue of the TRANSFORM News Magazine come from young people who participated in the inaugural TRANSFORM Transnational Summit, held in Durban from February 13-16, 2025.
This edition opens with the curatorial statement from the first TRANSFORM Travelling Exhibition "Youth United will Never be Defeated"
January 2025| Issue 2
This is an exciting ‘getting started’ time in the project, and we are delighted to include in this issue some of the highlights of TRANSFORM, including the news from NGO partners, the centres attached to Transform and of course the wonderful involvement of new researchers. You can also learn more about TRANSFORM’s Learning Series, the nine public and internal-to-Transform sessions from Series One, and the upcoming events for Series Two beginning in January 2025. We are particularly excited to showcase the first ‘cross project’ initiative of TRANSFORM involving more than 250 young people across sites in India, Mexico, Mali, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Tanzania, all picturing through photography what gender looks like in their own communities. You can be ready to see the fruits of this work post the first Transform Transnational Summit taking place in February 2025 in the form of a travelling exhibition, a digitally curated exhibition, and a special issue of the TRANSFORM News Magazine focused entirely on the Summit.
All this and lots more to come! If you are new to the Transform community and this transnational project involving field sites in Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa), Latin America (Argentina, Mexico), and South Asia (India), alongside communities of youth in Mali, Malawi, Tanzania and Indigenous youth (Eskasoni, Canada), we invite you to visit the Transform website.
September 2024 | Issue 1
Welcome to the first issue of our TRANSFORM News Magazine and the beginning of a brand new transnational project focusing on engaging with young people to disrupt gender norms. Awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, our partnership draws together more than 40 co-investigators and collaborators, 16 universities (involving 19 centres, labs, studios, and institutes), 10 partner organizations and hundreds of young people including those at field sites in Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa), Latin America (Argentina, Mexico), and South Asia (India).
Gender inequalities and discrimination persist glaringly around the globe with gender-based violence standing out as one of the most widespread human rights violations. And as the world’s largest youth population ever, young people are key players in local and transnational work to address gender equality. This need for urgent action is driving TRANSFORM: Engaging with Young People for Social Change. TRANSFORM aims to support youth-led interventions to study how young people experience, envision, and enact gender transformation, using a variety of art forms (photography, film making and cellphilming, performance art, and textile production).
