The Arrogance or Ignorance of Privilege
The 25th of November to the 10th of December marked the annual 16 days of activism against gender based violence, a period designated by the United Nations for continuous lobbying and advocacy,...
View Article“Find Your Own Voice”
Found this on Facebook – just in case you lost your voice or think you lost your voice – “Find your own voice” by Jayne Cortez
View Article2013, The Year of the Child
I have been thinking a great deal about children lately [I use the term broadly, as a mother and aunt rather than in strictly terms of age] especially about them being killed, raped and harmed in so...
View ArticleZero tolerance, zero rape
As the year turns yet again, reflections are the order of the days as the compliments flow and plans for the future move ahead, still remnant of the past follow like bee to honey. Never mind that the...
View ArticleAdoption, Sexual Abuse and Aid
I read a recent post on Women In and Beyond the Global on the forced powerlessness of pregnant women which refers to a study on two sets of interrelated events: [1] the effort to pass laws that give a...
View ArticleOutrage! & One Billion Rising, Whats the Point? Lessons from GBV movement...
From Thought Leader – Talia Meer asks what is the point of “1 billion Rising” and from Women and Beyond the Global – Wondering about Outrage! beyond personal gratification? Particularly when it is...
View ArticleIn Honor of Childhood-less Children/Adults.
My most visceral thoughts are right now with all the children who have been robbed of their childhoods by war and conflict. Oftentimes war and conflict can be in the home, in the family. Sometimes it...
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Gendercide
From Bernedette Muthien Ova the poetry of Bernedette Muthien gendercide it took a full week of straitjacketing generations of genocidal femicidal trauma for the clay dam wall to explode and flood me in...
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Haiti – Feminist Series 4, In conversation with Flaurantin Marie Enise
Looking up into Jalouzi Jalouzi is a hillside neighborhood of about 200,000 people overlooking lower Petion-Ville. It is accessible from two roads, one at the top and one below. The view from the top...
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Haiti – Making it easier to prosecute rapists but will this make it easier to...
From IPS, Haiti seeks to bring about major legal reforms to make it easier for victims of rape to prosecute their attackers. Great news and in the past year there have been more successful...
View ArticleReducing rape to everyday speech
From Feminists SA – Rape as slang – or a banal misogyny Almost everyday, I hear something that disturbs me; the use of rape casually, as a slang, mostly by males, on social media and in...
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Sentencing of the Oxford rapists: – Women protest both rape and racism
Police and social workers also trashed victims — will they be prosecuted? Old Bailey, London, 26 June 2013, 10-12 noon Women Against Rape Seven men will be sentenced for 43 offences — ranging from rape...
View ArticleAnother brutal murder of a lesbian
From inkanyiso – Another young black lesbian murdered. Duduzile Zozo, a 26 year old from Thokoza, East of Johannesburg was murdered on 30th June, 2013. Daily Sun, a local tabloid newspaper reported...
View ArticleQueer interventions – When victories in America’s culture wars become...
It is nearly two months since the Nigerian Senate passed the Same Sex Marriage Bill [SSMB 2013] yet the Bill is still awaiting presidential approval. It’s not clear why Goodluck Jonathan is...
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Battle Between the Stone & the Tree: Sharia & Women in Nigeria
From Women’s E News, an excerpt from “Your Fatwa Doesn’t Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism“ by Karima Bennoune. In this excerpt Bennoune explains how externally...
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Sneha Subra: A Drink or Two With the Intrepid Educator.
Today, four of the infamous Delhi rapists have been sentenced to die. Millions of people around the world are thrilled and millions around the world are infuriated, both by the much-anticipated...
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Queercide: Campaign Against Violence Against Women – Why We Must Document
In 2012 there were 10 murders of black lesbians, gays and transgender people in South Africa. In Uganda, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which includes the death penalty and makes LGBTI people and anyone...
View ArticleJaywalking the Freeway from Fear
From Center for Women’s Global Leadership by Bernedette Muthien, South Africa In 1993, the year of the germinal UN conference in Vienna, the first President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, affirmed...
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Maleshwane Emely Radebe : Born 25.08.1977, Died 7.12.2013
While South Africa and the world were mourning the death of Madiba, a young lesbian was murdered in Ratanda, Johannesburg. Maleshwane Emely Radebe was murdered on the 7th December 2013 aged 32. She was...
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Nigeria: Chibok, A Living Nightmare, Find our Daughters
Relatives of Kidnapped Girls [Source: TheGuardian.com] Women across Nigeria are protesting the abduction of 234 schoolgirls from Chibok, in north east Nigeria, which took place on Monday April the...
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