Women out of the box - Taipei Times

Nineteen indigenous women from southern Taiwan received identical small wooden boxes earlier this year. With no specific instructions, they were asked to decorate them and tell a story.
“Almost none of our participants are artists, and most are traditional women from the village who are not used to expressing themselves,” says Maital Takiludun, who spearheaded and curated the project for Women’s Nest (女窩), a women’s group based in Kaohsiung’s Namasia District (那瑪夏). “We worked very hard to learn how to put our stories in the boxes.”
They are now the latest addition to the Women Without Borders initiative, launched in 1991 by

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