Shirin Spricht!
A digital prevention project against forced marriage and family violence
“Shirin Spricht!” is aimed at girls, young women and FLINTAs with a migration background.
Overall, the project aims to raise awareness among the general public, but especially among the target groups, on the issues of kinship-based gender violence and forced marriage, focusing on an approach that is as intersectional as possible.
Shirin Speaks! is a project of the Orient Express association, financed with funds from the Federal Chancellery (Women's Section). The project follows an intersectional approach and aims to prevent gender-based violence as well as to support and protect girls and young women with a migration background through the implementation of a high-profile campaign, an Instagram educational channel and digital workshops.
With regard to a specific target group of the project, "Shirin Speaks!" aims, among other things, to bring two support systems together in order to be able to provide optimal care and advice to people with a migration background and disabilities (particularly learning difficulties). This goal is to be achieved, among other things, through exchange and networking with organizations working with people with disabilities in order to increase awareness and sensitization for the respective topics and to improve cooperation.
Project contents
Social Media
“Shirin Speaks!” combines entertaining and serious topics and creates a “safe space” for girls, women and FLINTAs with a migration history to exchange information and exchange ideas on important topics and problems. The aim is to remove the taboo surrounding gender-specific topics in communities with a migration history. The participatory approach of “Shirin Speaks!”, namely to spread content by women with a migration history for women with a migration history, is an important feature of the channels.
We are online on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter as shirin_spricht. We launch the accounts with our first post on
Thursday 07.04.2022 at 9 a.m.
The channels have an information-conveying character (prevention work) and at the same time they are a platform for low-threshold advice (crisis work). The content is multilingual and designed to be as barrier-free as possible.
campaign
As part of the project, a high-profile information campaign on the topic of forced marriage and family violence with a virtual focus will be carried out.
Among other things, a campaign video will be created.
The campaign will start on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the proclamation of the Day against Forced Marriage on May 11, 2022 under the motto: “10 years & 10 days against forced marriage & kin violence” and will run until May 20, 2022.
Various activities are planned as part of this campaign, including two webinars, an art evening, an open day and much more. All information about the campaign and the program will soon be available on our social media channels!
The thematic focus is on the early detection of these forms of violence and on the presentation of the complex problems associated with this form of violence. The topic of family violence is brought into focus within the framework of this campaign in order to address the broadest possible target group.
Workshops
Workshop Package 1:
The COVID-19 pandemic has also opened up innovative design possibilities in prevention work. The previously tried and tested conversion from face-to-face formats to online formats works in principle, but interpersonal exchange and group dynamics are often lost. By using new video conferencing tools (which, for example, include avatar functions to enable anonymity), a new target group-specific curriculum can be developed for virtual workshops on the project topics (including gender equality, forced marriage and kinship violence). The new curriculum will then be piloted in 5 workshops and adapted if necessary.
Workshop Package 2:
As part of the project, existing awareness-raising materials will be adapted to the needs of girls and young women with disabilities. The materials will then be piloted and adapted.
Since kinship-based gender violence manifests itself in the manifestation of role models that affect both genders, it can be useful to address mixed-gender groups in prevention work in the context of forced marriage. The crisis intervention and individual support offered as part of the project, on the other hand, focus on women, girls and FLINTAs, who can take advantage of the association's counseling services.
