Global Feminist Link Love: March 8-14
Happy Monday, global feminists!
Hope everyone had an awesome International Women’s Day, we know we did! A huge thank you again to all of the amazing participants in Blog for IWD. I think we can all agree it was a huge success. Meanwhile, lots else has happened so read on. And as always please leave us your link love in the comment! (aka tell us what you’ve written or read!)
From the blogs
IWD video: What are you carrying? from Nicholas Kristof’s blog
Oscar makes history: woman wins best director from Alternet
Women of Color and Wealth: The Scope of the Problem Part One and Part Two from Racialicious
Women’s Rights as a Security Issue from Nicholas Kristof’s blog
Reproductive Writes: Giving Blood: An Interview with Chris Bobel from Bitch Blogs
Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan: A Way Forward from the Huffington Post
Is the Fight Against Sex-Selective Abortion Hurting Women? from Akimbo
Sex and Power, From North Carolina to Congo from Huffington Post
Sex not specified: Australia leads the way with legal document from The Scavenger
Rape victims worldwide denied justice and dignity from Amnesty International
The Second Sex: lost in translation? from The F-Word
Cambodian Police Often Require Bribes Before Investigating Rape Cases from The Curvature
Christie Elan-Cane: Fighting for legal and social recognition outside the societal gender system from Questioning Transphobia
From the news
Women’s Reservation Bill passes in India from Times of India
Why women are the biggest emerging market from Bloomberg
Mullahs promote birth control in Afghanistan from MSNBC
Wominnovation from the Economist
Lonely death of Juanita Goggins, trailblazer of US civil rights from The Guardian
Push on to get prosthetics, rehab for thousands of Haitian amputees from The Canadian Press
Push to Close Gender Gaps ‘Slow’ from BBC News
I got my first op-ed in the huffington post about street harassment, thanks to my op-ed project training a few weeks ago 🙂
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This week we wrote (a little late) for International Women’s Day about Africana Womanism and who has historically been defined as a “woman”.
Then, this discussion of womanism had us reconsidering feminism.