Karachi Literature Festival 2018
Featuring a series of
interactive dialogue session on the ways to bringing together international and
Pakistani writers to promote reading and showcase writing at its best.
The festival was
organized by the Oxford university press with many co-sponsors.
The session #MeToo:
Gender issues today, the speaker were Aurelie Salvaire, Kami Chaoudry and Haris
Gazdar sit with moderator Bina Shah.
Bina Shah said, “Pakistan
has been ranked the second-worst country in the world for gender inequality for
the second consecutive year” .
We know that we have to
take respect of every gender because we can see that all the secors are running
by women now days. Aurelie Salvaire
said, “I find that there are more feminists in Pakistan’s lower middle classes
than in the upper classes. Imagine what would happen if all the women in
Pakistan stopped working for one day, the country would be paralyzed. We have
so much power but we don’t know it because patriarchy has divided us.”
The session began with
a fruitful discussion on Gender issues in our society. People were taking
interest in the session because it was very informative and meaningful. Where
speakers talk about gender issues facing by every genders in Pakistan.
"A lot of the
issues brought up by the me too movement expose not just sexual exploitation
but economic exploitation," says Haris Gazdar, adding, ""Surveys
reveal that women themselves don't regard their own labour as work."
Kami Sid, a transgender
activits and first transgender model said, “I identify myself as a transgender
woman. Kami further said that the step towards inclusivity makes Pakistan difference
and they are always talking about men and women why they are not talking about
men, women and transgender they have to know that there are we do exists.
At the end of the
session the audience demanded for more session of gender where people can know
more about this and we have to teach the parents to teach their children about
the gender issues and how to can we have to treat other genders.