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gIRL UP

gIRL UP CLUB - REPORT

We live in a world marred by continuous segregations behind on achieving utopian equality. This stands true
based on notions like culture, ethnicity, race, and in more ways than we can imagine.
gender. These segregations are a vicious attack on
the fundamental right to equality. Their mere existence From casual remarks like “you throw like a girl” and
threatens to split the society and ostracize a particular “man-up”, to oppressive foundations like unequal
section of the society, consequently weakening the base-pay and domestic violence, patriarchy corners
sheer root of humanity. us. The girl-Up campaign strives at eradicating the
aforementioned by lobbying, rallying, and organizing
The young and upcoming generation has started to large-scale events by drawing in students from classes
actively recognize these issues. However, merely 9th to 12th. The crusade is headed by Vania Duneja
recognizing a fault is not the solution, but the first step (XII-A), Bhavya Gupta (XII-D), Drishti Malik (XII-C), and
towards it. Vrinda Tuteja (XII-D), under the able guidance of Mrs.
Meenakshi Gupta.
GirlUp, a club formed under the guidelines of the
United Nations, embodies this school of thought GirlUp was envisioned in May 2021. The first
and strives to provide the students of the school with webinar was conducted in June 2021 on the agenda
an opportunity to voice their opinions. It aspires to “Unraveling gender roles from an intersectional
teach people of all gender identities to recognize, perspective”. Luminaries like Mrs. Smita Tharoor,
respect, and uplift each other, thus creating a sense of Mr. Lokesh Dharmani, and Sister Sudha Varghese
belonging and unity. The association also endeavors were in attendance to deliberate upon relevant issues
to create a safe space for young girls to explore their concerning women in an intersectional light.
immense potential and to inch towards eliminating
patriarchy and sexism. Following this successful christening was an
invigorating Candlelight vigil in August. It aimed
To transcend into the real world and understand what at educating pupils about diverse issues like body
being a girl means in the contemporary world, and positivity, sexual abuse, and the significance of
how casually sexism is entrenched in our lives is a recognizing inequality, thus equipping them with
challenging experience, which is woefully not spoken the ability to devise a definition of feminism that
about. Even years after realizing the importance of does justice to them and their expectations. Multiple
feminism in several strata of society, we are falling students partook in the cultural activities, organized

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