Global Feminist Link Love: April 7-13

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! 

Credit: Milagros Salazar (IPS)

Africa

• The 19th New York African Film Festival: “Playing Warriors” - “Katedza’s heroine Nyarai (Kudzai Sevenzo) is no Carrie Bradshaw. She’s cleverer, sharper, and when it comes to the crunch she is strong enough not to need the affirmation of men to feel good about herself. “Men use tradition when it suits them,” she tells her marriage-obsessed mother.” (AFRICA IS A COUNTRY)
• Joyce Banada: Malawi’s First Female President (The Root)
• Nigeria: Trust These Girls With Your Money (Nigeria)

Asia

• The Atlantic: To Be a Woman in Pakistan: Six Stories of Abuse, Shame, and Survival (BellBajao)
• Pregnant women should not be sacked: Government panel (Times of India)
• Trans woman to sue Christian rehab center in Hong Kong (Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!)
• Daughters of Afghanistan: Literary Voices of Change (PBS)

Europe

• “Gender roles are an outdated thing” (Advocate)
• Feminists hail explosion in new grassroots groups - “”It’s a really exciting time. We are seeing a real resurgence in feminist activism that is moving from the margins to the mainstream,” said Kat Banyard, founder of UK Feminista and author of The Equality Illusion.” (The Guardian)

Latin America

• Women Take the Reins of Power as Brazil’s Energy Industry Expands (NYTimes)

Middle East

• Not for a Woman in Amman - “Though Western media has praised Amman’s urban planning as a step towards egalitarianism, highlighting the fact that the ‘Amman 2025’ urban master plan won the 2007 World Leadership Award in Town Planning, a visit to Amman, home to nearly three million people, reveals a starkly different picture.” (IPS)
• Saudi Arabia: Sports Minister Confirms Women’s Exclusion (HRW)

North America

• The War on Women: A Progressive Man’s View (The Feminist Wire)
• Women Supreme Court Justice Celebrates 30 Years Since Court’s First Female 
• Sonya Renee: What Women Deserve [Video] (Gender Focus)

Oceania

• Papua New Guinea: Sexual violence forcing girls out of school (AWID)
• Why NZ Director Reference to the “Oprahfication” of the Courtroom was Really a Jab at the “Pussification” of the Courtroom (Feminist Law Professors)

Global

• Women, Risk, and Banking - “Through training and development, Iskenderian says she is hopeful the world of microfinance can maintain a tradition of men and women at the helm.” (The Glass Hammer)
• Melinda Gates: Let’s put birth control back on the agenda (TED)

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