Global Feminist Link Love: October 10-16
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art gender equality gender violence human rights political rights rape sex trafficking transgender violence against women womens rightsHey 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!
1 year anniversary of the African Women's Decade/Photo credit: DiBurto
Africa
- You need Nicholas Kristof - “The story says, if you’re Black and a girl, in `a place like Sierra Leone’, you better have the phone number of a prominent White American Male. You need Nicholas Kristof.” (Africa is a Country)
- Men and Masculinities in Eastern DR Congo – “This study analyses the relationship between sexual and gender-‐based violence and hegemonic masculinities in the conflict zone of North Kivu province in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.” (AWID/Heal Africa)
- South Africa: Transgender woman wins battle over ID (Pambazuka)
Asia
- Exhibition puts on spotlight on women artists from China (China Daily)
- Elia Saikaly: Not Without My Baby: Crossing the Tibetan Border (Huffington Post)
Europe
- Changing the sex of academia: A complex operation? (Inside Higher Ed)
- Who’s calling me a woman? (a little feminist blog on language)
- In ‘Women, War & Peace’s’ ‘I Came to Testify’ Brave Bosnian Women Speak Out About Surviving Rape as a Weapon of War (The Opinioness of the World)
Latin America
- Women in remote Colombian town end sex strike after government meets demand for new road (Washington Post)
- Church and State in Mexico: A Political Party Wavers on Women’s Rights (Religion Dispatches)
- The shackling of pregnant women in immigration detention (Latina Institute Blog)
Middle East
- Tawakul Karman and the Women of Yemen Who Stand For All of US (The Left Hand of Feminism)
- Actor in Australian film sentenced to 90 lashes (Sydney Morning Herald)
North America
- House Passes H.R. 358, the “Let Women Die” Act of 2011 (RH Reality Check)
- Coming Out: LGBT Teenagers in Their Own Words (Philly Gay Lawyer)
- Teenaged Nightmare: Violent Masculinity and Young Women of Color (The Feminist Wire)
Oceania
Global
- For Women, its still a long haul - “If there is one takeaway from the World Bank’s 2012 World Development Report on gender equality and development, it is this: while gender equality matters in its own right, it also makes for smart economics.” (Bell Bajao)
- Cautious welcome, concern as UK ties foreign aid to LGBT human rights (LGBT Asylum News)
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8:59 pm
- Topeka, Kansas repeals domestic violence law in cost-cutting measure:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/12/341448/topeka-kansas-repeals-domestic-violence-law/
- Senegal takes step towards abandoning FGC/M: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/world/africa/movement-to-end-genital-cutting-spreads-in-senegal.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Tostan&st=cse
12:55 am
I’m a big fan of “Antichoice is Anti-Awesome”, a prochoice blog done by Pedgehog, a fantastic Canadian blogger. http://antichoiceantiawesome.blogspot.com/ You can find her here!
My blog (also Canadian) is a fat acceptance blog. After all, fat is a feminist issue! ^_^ As Marianne Kirby of The Rotund so eloquently states: In this (my) space, fat is considered a feminist issue. Gender oppression is perpetuated by body oppression. Many feminists regard fat as a matter of health, not feminism but they are, quite frankly, deeply wrong. As long as women are taught to obsess over their bodies, the perceived flaws of their bodies, and why their bodies cannot possibly be pleasing to men if they are fat then women will not be spending their time obsessing over making truly significant strides forward when it comes to social issues, work issues, and the like. As long as women are taught to value their bodies only insomuch as their are pleasing to men, the self-worth of women will be dictated by men’s evaluations of those bodies. And you and I both know that is a bullshit way to live.”