Global Feminist Link Love: April 14-20

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! 

Photo: Reuters, Egypt’s women face rollback on divorce rights

Africa

• Mali: Crisis in Country – Fundamentalism, Women’s Rights and Cultural Resistance (allAfrica)
• South Africa “rape video” suspects in court (Al Jazeera)
• Burkas to tracksuits - “The Somali Athletics Federation will select one female runner from a field of 10 to compete in the 400-metres at this year’s London Olympics. The youngest of those currently training in Mogadishu is Najma, 10. She started running six months ago, shortly after Al-Shabab left the city. “My father encouraged me,” said Najma.” (IRIN)

Asia

• Report says women’s lagging political and economic status in Asia a liability for future growth (The Washington Post)
• Afghan woman MP sets sights on presidency (Reuters)
• Feminist Lessons to Learn from Muslim Nation of Bangladesh (Say it Sister)

Europe

• Swedish Golliwog Cake (AFRICA IS A COUNTRY)
• Domestic violence and vicious feminist propaganda: A journey inside the head of a conservative minister of justice (Feminists for Choice)

Latin America

• Quiara Alegria Hudes Wins Pulitzer for Drama (Latin American Herald Tribune)
• Brazil: Supreme Court Abortion Ruling a Positive Step (HRW)

Middle East

• Saudi Arabia Will Allow Women to Study Political Science (Insider Higher Ed)

North America

• Game Changing Trans Document Decision in Canada (TransGriot)
• “Oh, You Sexy Geek!”: “Geek Girls” and the Problem of Self-Objectification (Geek Feminism Blog)
• Support Our Troops! Well, the Penis-Having Ones (Persephone Magazine)
• When Menstrual Talk Comes Home (Society for Menstrual Cycle Research)

Oceania

• Complaints over Margaret Court’s gay “choice” article “trash free speech”, group says (Pink News)

Global

• The Conundrum of Body Hair (Beauty, and What It Means)
• Does your misogyny have enough racism in it? Fairer vaginas for all (Kafila)

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