February 2012
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U.N. Meeting Looks at Legal and Social Barriers to... →
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) wraps up a three day meeting in Bangkok today on HIV/AIDS in the region. Though the overall infection rate in the Asia-Pacific region is dropping and more people living with HIV/AIDS have access to treatment, infection rates in some low-prevalence countries like Bangladesh and the Philippines are increasing and there are...
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Women’s Media Center Launches “Women Under Siege” →
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Efforts to Eradicate African Homophobia and... →
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A City of Villages →
My larger point is that gendered borders exist within as well as across geographical ones. At GAB, I’ll largely be jumping from gender issues in one context to those in another. I think it important to before then say this: we live in a world with increasing connections across borders. As we and ideas flow across them, it doesn’t mean we don’t take those borders with us. There’s a whole world in...
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Serbians Respond to In the Land of Blood and Honey →
Though the film is arguably an extension of her global advocacy work, she is not interested in using it to make personal political statements. Rather, the film is the statement. Like all good political art, it is able to stand on its own as a representation of a larger truth — in this case, the realities of wartime sexual violence and abuse — and cause audiences to think about the issues in new,...
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Introducing New GAB Writer, Spectra Speaks: Saying... →
How about we — as global gender justice advocates — subvert the idea that women are perpetual victims by covering our collective resistance (at least much more often than, say, our male counterparts)?
-Spectra Speaks
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Canadian Air Travel Regulation Expands Global... →
In a climate of heightened security concerns and increased visibility for transgender people, it is unsurprising that transphobic individuals seek to pose transgender people as a threatening “Other,” a source of terrorism either foreign or domestic. As with homosexuality, some countries try to frame transgender people as a creeping foreign influence, not indigenous to the native culture....
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“Haradat Nashim” – How The Exclusion of Women Is... →
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LGBT Rights in Tunisia, A Year After the... →
January 2012
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Book Review: Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theater →
Much has been said about misogyny in Hip Hop (and way less has been said about misogyny in Indie music sung by white dudes), but you won’t find Tip Drill on these pages. This collection specifically addresses and highlights the role of women and men who write theater pieces to tell painful, beautiful, interesting, challenging stories, not those who capitalize on exploitative, violent images.
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If women are the future, where are they? →
rachaelstokes:
Despite a quota system to boost female participitation, the gender imbalance is still heavily skewed towards men. Jane Martinson reports from Davos 2012.
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Honduras is test of new American policy on gay...
qbits:
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Protester holds up image of murdered gay leader Walter Trochez
Source: Tri-City Herald By Tim Johnson From U.N. chambers to the halls of the State Department, global pressure on countries to protect the rights of homosexuals and transgender people is rising. For Josue Hernandez, the new emphasis can’t come fast enough. The 33-year-old gay activist bears...
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The New Face of Farming {about young Canadian... →
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For Kuwaiti Transgender Women, Damned If You Do,... →
It is interesting that unlike in some countries where police abuse persists against trans people, in Kuwait there is a strong prohibition of sexual harassment against women. What this means in practice is that trans men are rarely targeted due to officers’ fear of falling under this stricture, while trans women are.
-Avory Faucette
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What's Going on in the World: Saudi Arabia
fashionfoodie:
Saudi Women Are Finally Allowed to Sell Bras to One Another by Charlotte Cowles
Source: nymag.com daily fashion blog The Cut
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The State of My Union is the State of My Uterus →
In Kansas, my uterus signed up for a sex education class but the only subject taught was abstinence. In West Virginia, my uterus got tired of abstinence and got a prescription for birth control, but my health insurance company wouldn’t pay for it. As a result, by Texas my uterus was pregnant and sought pre-natal care, but there wasn’t any because state legislators decimated Planned Parenthood’s...
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“At least 252 Turkish women died at the hands of their husbands, lovers or male...”
– Turkish charity advises abused women to get guns | Women’s Views on News (via discosherpa)
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Global Feminist Link Love: January 16-22 →
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GAB Book Club: Voting for a February Book →
samsanator:
Come read with us!
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Domestic Violence Hotline Creates Possibilities in... →
This is the horrific truth: intimate partner violence is a global dilemma.
-Tahira Khalid
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Social Media Internship at a Global Feminist... →
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Who Needs Feminism? Everyone →
The only way to ensure that women enjoy the freedoms and privileges they want for themselves is to have them be the ones that propel it, and that is precisely what feminism is, label or not.
-Nadia Smiecinska
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Forced Sterilization of Swedish Transgender People... →
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Black women in European politics →
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Join a global feminist book club! Vote for the... →
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How hip-hop is finally losing its homophobic image →
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Two Upcoming Events to Benefit the Afghan Women’s... →
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Watchgrowingfacades:
Here’s a short video I made about women in Afghanistan as part of a class presentation. The video’s purpose was to show the beginnings of Taliban brutality. It was used as an introduction to the steep decline in women’s rights within the country.
I know it isn’t anything fancy, and with finals/other exams it was all put together very quickly. But the point of the video, I think,...
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Morocco may allow abortion →
In an interview last week, a top aide to Mr. Benkirane, Mustapha Khalifi, speaking in a personal capacity, confirmed media reports that the prime minister would support an initiative to allow abortions in cases of rape and incest.
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Cultural excuses: What lies behind cultural... →
Culture becomes a convenient excuse for many advocates of harmful practises against women because it is an extremely sensitive topic. In this precarious situation, the debate over cultural relativism and right to self-determination overshadows the most important issue - women’s suffering and abuse - that is simply unacceptable. Culture is created and lived by people and therefore can be...
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Culturally Relative Rights? Female Foeticide as a... →
As cultures confront and co-mingle with each other across political and social boundaries, the context of universal human rights assumes a new challenge: how to adapt a culturally sensitive approach to the discourse on women’s human rights.
-Amrita Kumar-Ratta, for the series on Culture and Human Rights
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“Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.”
– Dorothy Parker (via feminishblog)
YES.
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Shakeable Barriers →
Before moving to the United States my views and understanding on the rights of women in other countries, as well as mine, were very limited. Growing up in Guyana, we only focused on the now, the things we could see or feel. The trouble women faced around the world was omitted from our news coverage. Our minds were possessed by the image portrayed to us by America’s entertainment. Everyone...
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GAB Book Club: Echoes of the Lost Boys of Sudan... →
The book is a new way to teach the lessons of genocide. Through the use of graphic art, the book is a good method for reaching youth, who otherwise may not read about genocide or current state of the Sudan.
-Maria MacMullin
(if you liked the interview with the authors of Echoes of the Lost Boys of Sudan, check out the discussion questions for the book club here)