Global Feminist Link Love: August 8-14

Hey Global Feminists!

Thanks to Tanya for filling in for me last week! 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!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011, was the annual celebration, in South Africa, of National Women’s Day

Africa

• “Looking for David Kato” by Kenne Mwikya & Amil Khassim – “Kenne and a friend, Amil Khassim discuss the death of David Kato and what it means to for queer rights and queer activists in East Africa.” (Black Looks)
• Nigerians lured to Italy to work in sex trade (Al Jazeera)
• The Pink Hijab (The Wilson Quarterly)

Asia

• Women and Religious Radicalism in Indonesia (Turkish Weekly)
• “Today, I’m a woman who battles the lust of my former gender daily” (Tehlka)
• When it happened to me - “No, today was not the first time I was ever insulted by a man in public. It was the first time though I ever bumped someone’s car unintentionally and unfortunately in the last five years that I’ve been driving on the angry male dominated Delhi roads, the first time when someone made me feel sorry for myself for being a woman and the first time I experienced the fear of being hit by a man.” (Bell Bajao)

Europe

• Austria debates abortion in public hospitals (European Pro-Choice Network)
• Majority of UK Women and Businesses Opposed to Gender Quotas (The Glass Hammer)

Latin America

• Meet Hugo Chavez’s Revolucionarias – “Women are now at the top tier of Venezuelan politics, but are they a feminist force?” (AWID)
• Measuring Machismo – “Sandwiched in the middle of Central America, with a population of just under six million and a heavily agricultural economy, Nicaragua remains the poorest country in Latin American and the Caribbean after Haiti with a Human Development Index (HDI) ranking of 115.” (Gender Masala)

Middle East

• An Update With A Woman Caught In The Middle Of Bahrain’s Crackdown (NPR)
• “The University”: Transforming Arab Women Images in Television (Muslimah Media Watch)

North America

• More top seeds knocked out in Toronto today (Women Who Serve)
• What if You Would Like to Help Yourself to a Nice Slice of Pie? (Professor, What If …?)
• Why history says gay people can’t marry … nor can anyone else*. (Oxford University Press)
• How Much Do the Personal Lives of Politicians Matter (Amplify)

Oceania

• Dorothy Butler – the Barefoot Bushwalker (Australian Women and Leadership)
• Welcome to Monday ~ 15 August 2011 (feminaust)

Global

• A Brief History of Women’s Protests (TIME)

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