Global Feminist Link Love: February 8-14

Hello global feminists,

Hope you had a wonderful weekend! Below are some links we thought you might want to check out.

What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to leave your own links in the comments!

From the blogs

Watch “ColorLines: Race and Economic Recovery,” Only on LinkTV from Racialicious

New Hampshire Women Want to Be Included in the Constitution from Change.org

On gender, rape, and media narratives from the Feminist Texican

Pushing Babies: The Assault on Childless Women from RH Reality Check

Androgyny in Judaism from from the rib?

Youth, Activism and LGBTQ Rights in Cuba: Then and Now Part II from Amplified

Why We Need Tech Events for Women from Read Write Start

Egypt: Blogger loses job for uncovering fake virginity story from Global Voices

Orientalism and the Consumption of the Other from Sociological Images

The Ninth Carnival of Feminist Parenting from Mothers for Women’s Lib

Self Portrait Painted in Anonymous Comments from abyss2hope

From the news

That ‘P’ in PHP stands for ‘pink’: It’s Nerd Barbie! from CNET

Transsexualism No Longer Viewed as Mental Illness in France from NYTimes

Lucille Clifton, honored poet from Buffalo, dies from Buffalo News

Why Can’t Women Ski Jump? from Time

Hijab-wearing women rock! from The Guardian

Autism Risks Detailed In Children Of Older Mothers from NPR News

Making women bishops ‘a mistake’, synod warned from BBC News

Kurdish lawmaker hails role of women from UPI

Afghanistan in need of policewomen from Al Jazeera

Woven back to life: the women reviving a traditional Bedouin craft from the National

Child’s play: Ann-Marie MacDonald channels her inner boy in the gender-bending satire Cloud 9, a play review from CBC news

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