Global Feminist Link Love: June 20-26

Hey Global Feminists!

Below are a list of links to blog posts and news stories about what other global feminists have been up to last week. But we also want to know: what have you been reading/writing this week? Share your own link love in the comments!

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Africa

• Swaziland: Girls leave school because of no sanitary wear (Pambazuka)
• Kenya: Teacher Held Over rape of Disabled Girl (allAfrica)
• Women and the world’s newest country – South Sudan (Reporting Women)

Asia

• Feminism under pressure in China (The Guardian)
• Cyber Harassment and Women (Feministe)
• The Cruel Lie: Bombing to Liberate Women – “Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies of the United States, the U.S. government turned a cold and deaf ear to testimony about the suffering of Afghan women. Then, suddenly, after her husband announced a “war on terror” to last “generations,” Laura Bush told us in November 2011 that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was “a fight for the rights and dignity of women.” (On the Issues)

Europe

• In Sisterhood: Support The Strike At London Met’s Women’s Library (Tenured Radical)

Latin America

• Dan La Botz, “March of the Whores”: Women in Mexico March against Sexual Violence (MRZine)
• New Women-Only Buses in Guatemala – “Guatemala, one of the most violent countries in the world, just launched a pilot program of dozens of women-only buses in Guatemala City because of the high rates of sexual harassment and groping that women passengers face.” (Stop Street Harassment)

Middle East

• Thursday Short Poem: Zach’s “As Agreed” at Hugo Schwyzer (Hugh Schwyzer)
• Syria: In Search of the Rape Victims Among the Refugees (TIME)
• The Light in Her Eyes: An Eye-Opening Documentary (Muslimah Media Watch)

North America

• Lawyers and sex workers await fate of prostitution laws (The Toronto Star)
• Men Behaving Badly … It’s a Good Thing (Huffington Post)
• The Women of Star Trek (circa 1993) (Gender Focus)
• Cheers for Cuomo at NYC Gay Pride March (The Advocate)

Oceania

• Quote of the day - “I know, we know, every employer knows, that many women suffer terribly. Most take tablets for it and don’t take two or three days off monthly, but it happens.” (Shakesville)

Global

• Dissecting “female” – “Language matters; what you say and how you say it MATTERS. So be respectful, be aware, and MOST IMPORTANTLY: LISTEN to what those around you are saying about the language you use.” (Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!)
• OP-ED: Ban’s Second Term: The Case for a Woman Secretary-General (IPS)
• Time to Count Street Harassment as Hostile Acts (Womens eNews)

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