Global Feminist Link Love: October 17-23

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!

Tunisia's election through the eyes of women

Africa

• Sexual violence among men neglected (IRIN)
• Did Egypt’s Women Win the Revolution Only to lose Out?  - “In the eight months since the revolution, Egypt’s women have learned that the fight for their rights is only beginning.” (AlterNet)
• Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Is the Most Powerful Woman in Africa – Forbes Africa Magazine (allAfrica)
• Libyan Women and the Revolution (The Feminist Wire)

Asia

• Job Rolling Tobacco Sickens India’s Women (Womens eNews)
• BURMA: War rape reports continue unabated as government denies accounts (Women News Network)
• Wives, mistresses fight back – “Liu is the key organizer of a group that offers solace and advice in Xiamen, Fujian province. It provides an online platform for women with unfaithful husbands and it aims to help them save their families, or at least, talk about their experiences. (China Daily)

Europe

• Crisis Pushes Women into Prostitution - “The severe financial and economic problems in Portugal are driving many women to desperation and pushing them into prostitution as a last resort to support their families.“ (IPS)
• Ukraine: Reject Homophobic Law – “The Ukrainian parliament should reject a bill that would unlawfully censor information about homosexuality, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to parliamentary officials.” (HRW)

Latin America

• Same-sex marriage legal, Argentinians ready to fight for full equality (Global Post)
• Cuba’s Ladies in White Vow to Fight on After Leader’s Death (Latin American Herald Tribune)

Middle East

• Beirut conference awards Arab women in science (Al-Masry Al-Youm)

North America

• Sexism Watch: New York City Bus Makes Women Sit In Back (Tennessee Guerilla Women)
• Cardboard Cutouts Of Prudes And Sluts – “Night and day, up and down, prude and slut.  Neat oppositional bookends.  But night and day can be defined and verified against the real world, and so can up and down.  Prude and slut don’t admit of any such reality check.  In fact, while up and down and night and day are really opposites, prude and slut are not really opposites.  If they were opposites, they would be mutually exclusive.  And they are not. ” (Yes Means Yes)
• Girls on Film: The “For Women” Fallacy (feministfilm)

Oceania

• Australian prime minister Julia Gillard may allow free vote on gay marriage (PinkNews)

Global

• Sex slaves – Slavery: A 21st Century Evil - “There are an estimated 1.4 million sex slaves in the world today; most of them are women, although there are some men and many thousands of children.” (Al Jazeera)

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