Firstly, a well-researched piece from The Guardian, Islamic Feminism On The Move: Muslim societies, from Afghanistan where female teachers are singled out for killing by a resurgent Taliban, to Saudi Arabia where women are not allowed to drive or travel… Read More ›
Sociology
Leadership
Someone (Atrios? Ezra Klein?) posted a link to this post last week from TPMCafe’s Reed Hunt, 10 Events that could change the election’s dynamics, and I quoted one line from it last week in an article I posted at LP… Read More ›
Sex Contracts and Withdrawing Consent
Via Twisty, this story from Time Magazine (bolded emphasis mine): A Time Limit on Rape If a woman consents to having sex with a man but then during intercourse says no, and the man continues, is it rape? The answer… Read More ›
Ooh, new blogfind.
Through a livejournal friends page, I discovered the Feminist Anti-Oppression Forum when I read this article: Unbelievable, reproducing a column by FOXNews Women and Business opinion writer Megan Dowd. Commentors noted a few awkward lines that read like they were… Read More ›
Any search string that leads to Molly Ivins is a good search string
Sometimes following links that turn up in sitemeter is a joy rather than the usual ennui of seeing how many pervs are finding a link to this blog in a search engine. I like to think the pervs get a… Read More ›
Conservative bloggers channel Jan Brady: Marcotte! Marcotte! Marcotte!
Cut and pasted from a comment I left over at my LP post on bloggers joining political campaigns in the US (related to this Hoyden post from last week): Ha. The predicted conservative blogger meltdown about Amanda Marcotte joining the… Read More ›
DJs sues thinktank over report on sexualised images of children in advertising
Todays SMH: Sex, lies and advertising: DJs sues over child exploitation claims IN WHAT is believed to be a world first, David Jones begins a legal case tomorrow in which it is suing the left-leaning think tank the Australia Institute… Read More ›
Dear BBC, why is this picture part of this story?
What does this very well-muscled young man have to do with an exciting innovation in nanotechnology? Very little, but apparently because the new nanotech engine is similiar in size to our bodies’ own “engines” that make our muscles contract, BBC… Read More ›
Kinda proves his point
A Nigerian senator says he has received death threats after saying 90% of electoral candidates are corrupt.
Nazanin saved from execution
Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi has been released! Nazanin is a young Iranian woman who was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death after she stabbed a would-be rapist in self-defence. [old tigtogblog post]. The international awareness raised by the Save… Read More ›
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