Global Feminist Link Love: August 16-22

Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

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Africa

• Unlocking the puzzle: HIV in East Africa (femonomics)
• A New Publication: ActionAid: “Her Stories, Leurs Histoires” (in English and French) (Action Aid) Highly recommended.

Asia

• Young Visionaries Project: Women’s Health Clinic in Rural Nepal (Akimbo)
• Turning The Wheel Of Interfaith Dialogue In India (Counter Currents)
• Old Bombs Shatter Laotian Women’s Lives (Women’s eNews) “War-era ordnance kills and maims hundreds of Laotian villagers each year. Eighty-five percent of victims are men, leaving numerous women to fend for their families.”
• Not All Working Women Are Equal (IPS)

Europe

• Why we lack a Julia Gillard in Britain (NewStatesman) “Australia could have a female prime minister by the end of August. So, what’s stopping women reaching the top table again over here?”
• State of the (Superhero) Nation: Faiza Hussein in British Comics (Muslimah Media Watch)

Latin America

• Argentina: Guarantee Women’s Access to Health Care (Human Rights Watch)
• Can Soccer Reduce Brazil’s Domestic Violence? (Ms. Magazine)

Middle East

• Nothing is worse for a Saudi man than imagining himself a woman (Saudiwoman’s Weblog)
• Israel: Jewish Women Take On the Orthodox (AWID)

Northern America

• America has a Nativism problem, not a “Muslim Problem” (Sepia Mutiny)
• Fighting for Prison Health Care Above the Norm (The Body) “On June 10, 1993, I was released from Albion State Correctional Facility for Women. “91G1505,” as I had been called for the last three years of my life, was no longer property of the State of New York…. During my incarceration, I was a victim of medical neglect due to policy and procedures.
• Of opprobrium and cavemen: slightly updated (Hugo Schwyzer) “At the Good Men Project site, there’s a lot of affirmation of the good that men do, and that’s fine. We all need reminders of our essential decency. But where I think Tom and I disagree is about the nature of masculinity itself.”

Oceania

• Five days, done and dusted. Reflections on a 93p/day diet (Musings of an Inappropriate Woman)

Global

• International Indigenous Women’s Environmental and Reproductive Health Symposium Declaration (INCITE! Blog)
• New Blog I’m digging: The Feminist Poster Project “This website archives and shares feminist posters, postcards and stickers for you to print and paste. It offers a space for inspiration and a network for feminist poster artists.”

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