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Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

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Africa

Cut! Censoring Sex In Ghanaian Movies (MIMI Magazine)

Zambia: Task Force on HIV/Aids Includes Traditional Healers (allAfrica News)

Angola: “Alambamento” and Marriage Practices (Global Voices Online) Read the rest of this entry →

Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

Africa

• Rwanda’s elections: what to watch (Texas in Africa)
• Africa: African Women Entrepreneurs Honored at Agoa Forum (allAfrica)
• Africa: Developing More Top African Women Research Scientists (all Africa)
• Sudan sentences 19 men for wearing women’s clothes (MSNBC) A reminder that feminism is for everybody: “These people did not get a chance for justice…Public opinion and the media prejudged them and lawyers were too scared to come and defend them.”
• Interview with Author Shubnum Khan (Muslimah Media Watch) “Shubnum Khan is a young Muslimah from Durban, South Africa. Her book Onion Tears has been shortlisted for the Penguin Prize for African Writing. Her novel explores the lives of South African Indian Muslim women. I interviewed Khan about her book and her writing.” Read the rest of this entry →

Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

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Africa

• Egypt: Do Egyptians have a natural aversion towards women? (Global Voices Online) “Zeinobia is very unhappy with this emerging social trend, Mohaly is wondering where we are going with segregation, Diptychal wonders why they want to shut them up, and Eman Hashim is begging mothers to love their daughters!”
• MADAGASCAR: Women Form Own Political Parties for Fair Representation (IPS)
• Why African women and girls are still manual porters (Aid Watch) Read the rest of this entry →

Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

Production still from The Better to See you With. Click Image for link to article about Jessica Lagunas on Womens Glib.

Africa

• **Trigger Warning** In Cameroon, Breast Ironing On the Rise to Stem Sexual Assault and Pregnancy (Women Undefined)
• Morocco: A Young Blogger Greets the World (Global Voices Online)

Asia

• Delhi Named Most Unsafe City For Women (Change.org)
• Korean Gender Reader (The Grand Narrative)
• Sex is not work and our bodies are not for sale – 4th World Conference on Human Rights – Nantes France (womensphere) Read the rest of this entry →

Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

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Africa

• Mozambique: Women at Forefront of Resisting Climate Change (IPS News)
• Fears of rape in Kenya’s slums ‘trap women’ (BBC)
• The Worst Fears About LGBT Violence in Uganda May Be Coming True (Change.org Gay Rights Blog) Read the rest of this entry →

Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

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Africa

• Somalia: Peaceful Poll in Somaliland Points a Way Out of Conflict (AllAfrica) Read the rest of this entry →

Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

Photos by Hossein Baharloo show the women rowing team practicing on the beautiful Zayandeh Rud river in the historic city of Isfahan in the shadows of the ancient Sio-seh-pol bridge.

Africa

• How Kenya welcomes refugees (HRW Women’s Rights)
• The Reign of Anomie in Nigeria (culturekitchen)
• Activism, Africa, Mobile Phones and Women (AWID)

Asia

• Subsidized Menstrual Pads: Good for Girls, Bad for the Planet (Change.org Women’s Rights blog)
• Support to Refugees in Uzbekistan (WomenWatch) Read the rest of this entry →

Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

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Africa

• Uganda: Women Start Poll Violence Hotline (allAfrica)
• Namibian HIV-positive women sue over forced sterilisations (AFP)
• Africa: U.S. Summit Sets Agenda for Women (allAfrica) Details an interesting debate about women’s leadership: “African women rose from engaging discussions Tuesday with a call for women to rise up against non-performing women leaders in political positions who do not support their cause.While calling for the removal of women leaders, who lack focus to create opportunities for those who would advance women’s interest, they said African women could make a change in their communities, if the few in decision-making bodies have the interest of women at heart.” Read the rest of this entry →

Hey Global Feminists!

Here are a list of links about what other global feminists were up to this past week. We also want to know: What have you been reading/writing this week? Don’t forget to spread your own link love in the comments!

A young woman from the Uganda Skateboard Union pictured with the first, and only, half-pipe in East Africa, built entirely by the youth from the Kampala suburb of Kitintale.

Africa

• Don’t Ban Condoms From the World Cup (Change.org Women’s Right’s blog) “FIFA, which oversees the World Cup, won’t be allowing any of those free-for-the-taking condoms inside their stadium. It seems the organization is more concerned with its bottom line than people’s lives.”

Less Funds Will Cause Unnecessary AIDS Deaths (AllAfrica)

Asia

• Welcome To Internalised Misogyny : Part One In An Infinite Series Of DoucheBaggerey (Oi With the Poodles Already!) “Why is it so easy to take away the agency of women’s bodies? Is it because our culture believes the woman’s worth is less than her Y-chromosomed counterparts? Why is the sale of a girl’s body considered a tradition? What gives anyone this right to just take these girls childhood?”
• How NOT to Date an Indian (Sepia Mutiny)
• India’s Rent-a-Womb Industry Faces New Restrictions (Time)

Europe

• Africa: thoughts in progress (unreal) “Having spent time living and working In ahhh Africa oohhh (actually a handful of countries but allow irony, friends) I have – for the last 15 years or so – become increasingly aware of the way in which European, mainly British, people (friends, usually) refer to that (my) experience.”
• More Victim Blaming (Women Undefined) “In response to an apparent need to address the increase in “frivolous” lawsuits against celebrities for sexual assault that never went to trial, Britain’s new government is cracking down on rape victims and acting quickly to protect rapists.”

Latin America

• Guatemala: Ways to help (The Feminist Texican)
• Bagua: One Year After Massacre Indigenous Peoples in Peru Are Still Fighting for Justice (Peruanista)

Middle East

• Israel Flotilla Raid 2010 (Global Voices Online) “Reactions continue to pour in from around the world. To stay updated on the various reactions in the blogospheres and social media platforms, you can follow Global Voices Online‘s special coverage page.”
• Al-Jazeera presenters quit over ‘modesty’ dress comments (Telegraph)
• The First Saudi Domestic Violence Awareness Forum in London (ArabNews.com

Northern America

• Ask Racialicious: How to Read and Respond to Literature of Colour (Racialicious)
• Arizona Law an Attack on All Women (MomsRising.org)
• No, really, the word “no” isn’t that confusing (Pandagon)
• Racism in Prescott, AZ Targets Schoolchildren (Reappropriate)

Oceania

• Newsflash: hate is not helpful (Spilt Milk) “Stigmatising fat people – especially when doctors or health spokespeople do it, damages the health of individuals and therefore the health of the population.”
• Discrimination is only discrimination if you end up being sacked (Wallaby) “It may be that not many people are getting sacked because of their MS, but it does tend to support the idea that it is a realistic possibility that you will be sacked if you tell your boss you have MS. In other words: the fear of discrimination (eventuating in unemployment) is hardly unfounded!”
• The best of the rest of the internet: Down Under Feminists Carnival edition (Musings of an Inappropriate Woman)

Global

• What To Do When Someone Approaches To Tell You About Sexual Assault or Abuse (this ain’t livin’)

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