January 2011
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Lightening Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on the Cover of...
he December 2010 issue of Elle features Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, a major star in the Indian film industry who has also been a spokesperson for L’Oreal and appeared on the “Most Beautiful Women in the World” lists of various magazines. Here’s the cover, with a very pale Bachchan:
Let’s compare to a photo of Buchchan, found at Photoshop Disasters:
Another photo (via):
Elle was criticized...
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“Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get...”
– Jessica Valenti (via sillysocialisthippie)
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Mexican Women's Rights Crusader Susana Chavez... →
Mexican womens rights activist Susana Chavez tirelessly fought to bring attention to the decade’s long murder of women occurring in Ciudad Juarez. She was an active member of May Our Daughters Return Home, a local group representing victims of the murdered and disappeared women of Juarez and helped to coin the phrase “Ni Una Mas” (“Not One More Death”)—a rallying cry for the...
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“Gaining weight and pulling my head out of the toilet was the most political act...”
– Abra Fortune Chernik in “The Body Politic” in Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation (via fuckyeahfeminists)
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The Pregnancy Police and Citizens' Arrests of... →
Most women who’ve been visibly pregnant know that lots of people you don’t know suddenly feel they have a say in your life. Perfect strangers—on the subway, in the elevator, on a street corner—ask when you are due, the sex of your baby, the number of children you currently have. People you don’t know touch your belly without permission, as though you were a ripe...
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Human Rights Watch: 21st Annual World Report →
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This 21st annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2010 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.
With increasing frequency, governments that might exert pressure for human...
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Imaging Barbie’s Fantastical Proportions (via...
Everyone says that Barbie has unrealistic proportions, but have you seen them? Denise Winterman at the BBC decided to make a visual, borrowing one Barbie doll, one real human woman, Libby, and the wonders of photoshop.
First, Barbie’s measurements:
bust 4.6ins (11.6cm)
waist 3.5ins (8.9cm)
hips 5ins (12.7cm)
Second, the transformation:
If Libby’s waist size of 28ins (71.1cm) were to...
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Pharmacist Denies Anti-Bleeding Medication Because... →
A pharmacist at a Nampa, Idaho, Walgreens refused to dispense medication that stops uterine bleeding because she suspected the woman may have had an abortion. The pharmacist invoked the state’s new so-called conscience clause that allows pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for emergency contraceptives and abortifacient drugs, among other things, if they have a personal problem...
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"Our Bodies Are Still Trembling": Haitian Women... →
January 10, 2011
“Today, MADRE, the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the IWHR Clinic of CUNY School of Law released a report on sexual violence in Haiti one year after the earthquake.The catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake took the lives of some 200,000 people and left approximately 1.5 million Haitians...
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“There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay...”
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Joan Kirner at the Women into Power conference, Adelaide (1994)
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Women's Human Rights Education Institutes 2011
Are you a women’s human rights defender? Do you want to increase your knowledge of women’s human rights? Do you want to use the UN system to support your activism, or train others on the principles of human rights? Do you want to better understand the impact of globalization on the realization of women’s human rights? Join other international activists, scholars, community workers, NGO...
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“One of the scandals of the early 21st Century is that 122 million women around...”
– Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn, Half the Sky (via becauseiamawoman)
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Don’t Be That Guy: Sage Advice From A Urinal in... →
Post from Gender Across Borders
TRIGGER WARNING: This post includes rape statistics and photos of potential sexual assault situations.
Our society creates images of typical rapists as sociopathic gang members or mentally unstable predators lurking in urban back alleys by night. Images in the media rarely acknowledge our friends, boyfriends, friends of friends, or acquaintances as potential...
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The top 10 news events for women in 2010 (via Girl... →
I’m not even going to PRETEND this list is exhaustive, impartial or definitive, it’s just stories that either a)would obviously have an impact on women’s lives (and obviously made an impact in the world’s media) or simply caught my eye. But what do you think? Add your own in the comments!
1. UN Women, the United Nations ‘super agency’ to promote women’s equality and empowerment across the...
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“The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist,...”
– I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
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Gender, Boobs, and Video Game Characters (via... →
Dr. Cai Wilkinson (at the University of Birmingham), YetAnotherGirl, and (surprise surprise) Dmitriy T.M. sent in this humorous flowchart satirizing the design of video game characters. I thought it was worth a tangentially-sociological laugh:
(Source: I Love Charts)
In addition to the gender lesson in the flowchart, there are some interesting lesson about who “our” enemies are: demons,...
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2010's Top 10 Women's Rights Victories through... →
To get us started on the right foot with 2011, let us remember the victories Change.org members helped achieve in 2010. It’s an inspiration for the new year, to keep fighting the good fight on behalf of women’s rights, and to remember the power of change.
1. Freedom for the Scott Sisters: Jamie and Gladys Scott were set free today. The two young African-American women had received ...
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Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
sheresists:
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are...
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Grand jury weighs whether there was a conspiracy... →
More than 18 months after a Wichita abortion doctor was gunned down in his church, a federal investigation into a possible conspiracy continues in Kansas City.
Federal agents have questioned more people in the past few weeks, while a grand jury convened after the murder of George Tiller is still under way.
The focus, according to those who have been interviewed, still appears to be on a...
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Bottom line: Rape is rape (via Toronto Sun) →
Julian Assange, the Australian hacker who runs WikiLeaks, is accused of rape in Sweden.
This has not caused some of Assange’s defenders to change their opinion of him.
Instead, it has caused them to change their opinion of rape accusations.
Heather Mallick is one such supporter. She’s a columnist for the Toronto Star and a feminist — just ask her. But she’s also a harsh critic of America and...
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For Yasmin Birth Control Lawsuit, Canadian Lawyers... →
Toronto, Ontario: A Canadian class-action lawsuit alleging Yaz side effects and other grievous health issues stemming from Yasmin birth control is being promoted to prospective plaintiffs in a unique, and decidedly modern way—through social networking via Facebook. In attempting to reach out to victims of the problematic contraceptive products, the attorneys are going to where the people are…
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Myth-Making and the “We Can Do It!” Poster (via... →
Most of our readers are probably familiar with the now-iconic “We Can Do It!” poster associated with Rosie the Riveter and the movement of women into the paid industrial workforce during World War II:
It is, by this point, so recognizable that it is often parodied or appropriated for a variety of uses (including selling household cleaners). The image is widely seen as a symbol of women’s...
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Spanish city bans face-covering Islamic veils in... →
Lleida, located in north-eastern region of Catalonia, approved legislation in May but procedural issues delayed its implementation
The Spanish city of Lleida has became the first in the country to implement a ban on the wearing of face-covering Islamic veils in municipal buildings.
Lleida, in the north-eastern region of Catalonia, approved the legislation in May but procedural issues...
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Condemned Iranian Woman Tells Journalists 'Leave... →
An Iranian woman whose stoning sentence sparked international outrage has appeared before journalists, urging them not to interfere and saying “many people” had exploited her case, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
It is the latest in a series of officially arranged appearances by the condemned mother of two, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, and adds another twist in a long-running...
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