April 2021
In specialty coffee, the term “empowering women” is ubiquitous: Women’s empowerment is featured in the mission of global and local organizations devoted to women’s equality; in associations that seek to unite women to use their voices and band together; and in programs from soil management to latte art that seek to train women.
But is this focus on “women’s empowerment” enough for gender justice to become a reality? Read my latest article from 25 Magazine to find out why ’empowerment’ lacks the “ferocious accuracy” needed for gender justice to become more than words.