Global Feminist Link Love: April 26 – May 2

Hey Global Feminists,

Here is our weekly round-up from and about women and feminists globally! We also want to  hear from you: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

From "A Series of Questions" by L Weingarten. Click image for link

• More on “A Series of Questions”: Challenging the inexplicability of the transgender community (Sociological Images)
• Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010 (Diary of a Goldfish)
• In advocating for others, listening is prime (femonomics)

Africa

• Breaking LGBTI Silence (World Pulse)
• Water is a Women’s Issue (Pursuit of Harpyness)
• some alternative ideas to donating t-shirts (Texas in Africa)
• Intended Consequences by Jonathan Torgovnik (Media Storm) “An estimated 20,000 children were born from rapes committed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Intended Consequences chronicles the lives of these women. Their narratives are embodied in portrait photographs, interviews and oral reflections about the daily challenges they face today.” **Trigger Warning**
• Ghana: Women Still Under-Represented in Assembliess (allAfrica)

Asia

• How Korean Girls Learn to be Insecure About Their Bodies(The Grand Narrative)
• In Japan, the Prada ‘Look’ Comes with a Side Order of Discrimination (DailyFinance) “Recently, a complaint filed in Japan made it clear that this trend extends well into the highest echelons of the fashion industry. Rina Bovrisse (pictured), a former senior retail manager at Prada Japan, accused the famed fashion retailer of sexual harassment and appearance-based discrimination.”
• Philippine court overturns ban on gay political party (Amnesty International)

Europe

• General election 2010: If Britain is really post-racial, why is the election so white? (The Guardian – “My election”)
• Do the racy Hunky Dorys ads leave a bad taste in your mouth?(Belfast Telegraph)
• How Britain is sending a woman to her death, and what you can do about it (The F Word)

Latin America

• A Gringa in Bogotá: Candidates and Caballos (Beacon Broadside) “The weak had won out for once. Now, whenever I see a horse clopping along the street in Bogotá, I think not so much of the city’s rural roots, but in the small victory for an urban and democratic future.”
• Danger and Determination in Papua New Guinea (Association for Women’s Rights in Development)

Middle East

• Fatma On Inclusion of Different Ethnicities in the Network (شبكة عربية نسوية شابة: Young Arab Feminist Network)
• A Conversation with Elif Şafak (Muslimah Media Watch)
• Victims of harassment speak out in Lebanon (AFP)

Northern America

• The Kate Hudson Debacle, or Why Feminism is for White Women Again (I Fry Mine in Butter) “The fact remains that both women deserve the right to have agency over their bodies without judgment or condemnation. You can’t have your Kate and Gabby too. Either all women have that right or none do, if we believe in the basic tenets of feminism. Express your disappointment that women feel they need to alter their bodies to succeed in an appearance-obsessed industry, but don’t attack the woman’s choice to alter her body.”
• Holding My Boyfriend’s Hand: On Becoming Invisible Again (Feministing)
• Sisters In Spirit 2010 Research Findings (Native Women’s Association of Canada)
• What is Asian America, Really? (8 Asians)
• But it rhymes!: ridiculing marginalized groups in articles about their concerns (Deeply Problematic)
• When you Transgress the Gender Binary (Womanist Musings)
• The 106 (Feminuity) “Today on the bus a man started yelling. At the top of his lungs he towered over me. Asking me questions about rape”
• Does American Mean White? Part I (Conducive Chronicle)

Oceania

• on “Throwing Like a Girl” (Pondering Postfeminism)
• About a boy (eddy’s queerrantspace) “I think it’s good that you are questioning your assumptions about gender and sexuality. It’s a scary thing to do, as it involves a lot of introspection, and possibly moving away from the comfort of what the group wants you to think.”
• Handing Back the Hate (Fat Heffalump)

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