Global Feminist Link Love: April 21 – 27

Hello all you 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! 

Elizabeth “Tex” Williams, the first black Women’s Auxiliary Air Corps (WAC) photographer.

Africa

• Sudan: Nuba Woman Activist Detained for 40 days (AWID)
• DRC: End of mother-to-child HIV transmission still a long way off (IRIN)
• South Africa: Traditional Courts Bill causes concern (Pambazuka)

Asia

• Most sexual assault victims knew offenders (AsiaOne)
• Taslima Nasreen: Gendercide is War on Women - (Genderbytes)

Europe

• You’re Gonna Love This Story From Finland - “The land with great gender equality, right? But it also has a law about the right to associate with others which creates slightly different problems from the American ones.” (Echidne)
• What Do You Make of Britain’s New Marriage Ad? (The Bilerico Project)
• The perils of being LGBT in Italy (Macleans)

Latin America

• Argentina Gender Identity Law Advancing in Senate (TransGriot)

Middle East

• Young Moroccans Keep Arab-Spring Spirit Alive (Women’s eNews)

North America

• How the Violence Against Women Act Impacts College Women (Choices Campus Blog)
• A Man Informs Women That Their Breasts Are Dispensable (Clarissa’s Blog)
• Fox News Host: Women have all the rights they need … like shopping (Amplify Your Voice)
• A trend spotter’s guide to female desire - “If there’s one thing we journalists love more than a good trend story, it’s a trend story pertaining to what people like to do with their genitals. The latest? Katie Roiphe’s Newsweek cover story on the mainstreaming of BDSM in popular culture, and what it reveals about women’s secret desires to be dominated.” (Daily Life)

Oceania

• Feminists of Faith: Kath of Fat Heffalump (Zero at the Bone)
• Papua New Guinea’s “Missing Mothers’ Prompt Rural Healthcare Overhaul (IPS)

Global

• Why the Sex Positive Movement is Bad for Sex Workers’ Rights (Audacia Ray)
• The Most Powerful Women You’ve Never Heard Of (Foreign Policy)

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