Global Feminist Link Love: September 19-25

Hey Global Feminists!

Below are a list of links to blog posts and news stories about what other global feminists  have been up to this past 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

• “Lesbians Seeing Lesbians” – “The South African photographer Zanele Muholi is exhibiting some of her work at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (26 Wooster Street) as part of an exhibition of contemporary photographers, “Lesbians Seeing Lesbians: Building Community in Early Feminist Photography” (AFRICA IS A COUNTRY)
• The Blame Game (Black Looks)
• The perils of being a widow in Zambia (Radio Netherlands Worldwide)

Asia

• Women recount horrors of the Indo-Naga conflict (Asian Correspondent)
• NEPAL: Badam Mahatara, “In this community there is never ending discrimination against women” (IRIN)
• Chinese Teacher Fights To Have Rape Charges Taken Seriously (Jezebel)

Europe

• Quelle surprise: French “Burqa Ban” makes life worse for niqab-wearing women (Feminist Philosophers)
• One-year blood donation deferral for UK gay men (PinkNews)
• Why the public sector cuts target women (The F-Word)

Latin America

• The Drug-War Femicides  (Project Syndicate)
• Victims of Sexual Violence Under Threat and on Their Own (IPS)

Middle East

• Palestinian-Israeli Women Lose a Voice for Peace (Women’s eNews)
• Saudi women given voting rights (Al Jazeera)

North America

• Wednesday Geek Woman: Maud Menten, medical researcher (Geek Feminism Blog)
• Judging Inner Beauty: Models and Emotional Labour (The Society’s Pages)
• On Menopause: Men Know Nothing – It’s Time To Chance (Huffington Post)

Oceania

• CLITORIS CLITORIS CLITORIS - “Clearly the media meme of the month is “won’t someone think of the children, and the imaginary innocence we ascribe to them in order to justify our lack of openness about basic anatomy because it’s ~icky~?” (Ideologically Impure)

Global

• The Qur’an Is Blatantly Anti-Patriarchal (the fatal feminist)
• Hilary Clinton’s APEC Speech: Women Are Key to Global Economy (The Daily Beast)

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