We’re Finally Launching!

In response to the exclusionary nature of mainstream media, it has become more and more imperative to document women and women’s influence on society deliberately and consciously. Add this to the daily risk of erasure women face, we had a reason, no a purpose, to build documentwomen.com

Document Women is a curative media platform fighting erasure by documenting women’s influence on society past and present.

In 2019, while working as Head of Programmes Presenting at a woman-focused radio station in Lagos, Nigeria called Women Radio, Kiki Mordi first documented the women of Tarkwa Bay island who provided for their families via fishing. The documentary titled “Life At The Bay” was part of an ongoing movement called Document Women which was created, to battle the erasure of women in the media. Mordi’s passion for telling impactful stories and through her works as a reporter, writer, filmmaker and photographer propelled her and cofounder Layo Ogunbanwo to build a more holistic platform to tell women’s stories, and we created project Document Women.

Layo Ogunbanwo builds, grows and sells great products in the tech ecosystem. As the current VP Product Strategy at Piggyvest and member of the coalition, when Kiki Mordi reached out about building Document Women into a bigger product, Layo was immediately interested.

“We had one job. To grow Document Women from a hashtag to a digital platform where women stories, especially African women’s stories are told and well, documented.”

You’ve probably not heard the story of the woman who single-handedly ended female genital mutilation in her village. She influenced positive change over a long-standing tradition, but she never got the credit. She is not alone. Document Women is a curative media platform focused on reversing the effects of the erasure of women. This project will document the stories of many other women who suffer variations of the Matilda effect, a phenomenon that constantly erases women in and out of inventions and credits men for their works and influence. We are documenting women and investigating the exclusion of women’s contribution to history.

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Document Women’s mission is to create and curate engaging feminist content using multiple media channels to represent women and women’s influence in society. Through:

• Documentaries
• Articles
• Podcasts
• Photoessays

We have a goal to amplify the voices of women. We are also building a community of women who are not afraid to challenge the non-inclusive culture of mainstream media.

Our vision is to be a contemporary community that provides an opportunity for a very global yet localized feminist discourse that is inclusive of everyone. We are approaching every issue using a gendered lens to simplify the complex domino effects of inequality.

Similarly, we encourage people to consider feminism as a necessary part of the broader social justice movement.

Our audience is diverse, and the topics are dynamic. We understand the need to tailor feminist contents to different stages of feminist journeys for womxn from varying backgrounds. Document Women plays an important role in exploring taboo topics, providing resources for all age groups to develop introspection and to promote intersectionality in advocacy.

The goal of Document Women is an inclusive representation in media, to build a community of young feminists and to equip consumers with the necessary information to promote feminism among the youth. We are rewriting history, one woman at a time.

Nigeria, and by extension, the world has seen a huge rise in the number of women who are becoming bolder and taking a step forward in changing the narratives that society has held for so long about their lives and the way they should live them. However, we are not seeing a rise in the media platforms willing to take on these bold stories. Therein lies the problem!

With Document Women, we no longer have to sit back and let others tell and twist our stories to fit the shapes they have conjured. We can write our stories exactly how they are supposed to be written. We can write our names on the sands of time for women yet unborn who are coming in the next generation.

We can now DOCUMENT WOMEN!!!

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