Global Feminist Link Love: August 2-8

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!

Posted after her confirmation hearings, Elena Kagan was sworn in yesterday as the fourth ever female justice on the US Supreme Court.

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.”

Asia

• Tokyo expected to face up to comfort women issue (Asiaone News)

Europe

• Sayeeda Warsi: ‘What I find amazing is the media’s obsession with having to define me’ (The Guardian) “David Cameron’s minister responsible for community cohesion on why she thinks the constant references to her background and ethnic origin are irrelevant”
• France Is Fucking Up (The Czech) Be sure to check out the links included with this post.

Latin America

• The Gender Roots of Labour Inequality (IPS)
• Women’s Votes, Hard to Pin Down but Crucial (IPS) “Female voters in Brazil could ensure an easy victory this October for the ruling Workers Party candidate, Dilma Rousseff. But recent polls seem to indicate that it is women themselves who are most reluctant to elect the country’s first female president.”

Middle East

• Iranian facing stoning speaks: ‘It’s because I’m a woman’ (The Guardian)
• Pakistan: Gang Rape Of Nurse Causes Outrage (Global Voices Online)

Northern America

• Hard Questions: Why won’t we work for women? (The Glass Hammer) “Admitting our preferences doesn’t seem to be a problem – we’re happy to confess that we want to work for men – but why do we feel like that in the first place? What’s so problematic about working for a woman?”
• I came out to my father that I am Transexual (LadyVixen’s vlog)
• Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Apologies and Changes That Still Haven’t Come (Animal Rights & AntiOpression)
• Voices from Brooklyn: Racial Profiling’s Part of Everyday Life Here (ColorLines)

Oceania

• The Twenty-Seventh Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at In a Strange Land!
• And be sure to check out Pickled Think’s hilarious post: There, I Fixed It For You: Alleged Is The New Black Edition

Global

• In a Win for Women and Girls, the United Nations Recognizes Water and Sanitation as a Basic Human Right (Akimbo)
• 10 Things Men and Boys Can Do to Stop Human Trafficking (Ms. Magazine)

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