Where Dark Tourism Meets Global Feminism
This is a guest post by Jessica Mack.
If you haven’t heard it before, you probably already know the concept. Dark tourism is what happens when former places of tragedy and horror become memorialized, then patronized by droves of tourists. Like Ground Zero in New York City, or Nelson Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island. It’s where dark memories, human curiosity, and capitalism mix.
It’s Ramadan. How ’bout those Muslim feminists?
In honor of Ramadan (which began this week), and the fact that I have but a little time left with the lovely folks of Feministe, I thought I would aim once again for the overlap in my life’s Venn Diagram. To your right! The circle labelled “reads a lot of books.” To your left! The [...]
...read moreNorway and terrorism as a daily event.
In the West, we seem to have at least a double standard when it comes to violence and mayhem. When violence and mayhem involves People Who Look Like Us (“us” in this case generally translating to: ethnically European/white, not-poor, citizens of a Western-style democracy) — we experience society-wide woe. When it involves People Who Don’t [...]
...read moreAge limit on foreign men marrying Cambodian women introduced
From the AFP: MALE foreigners over the age of 50 have been outlawed from marrying Cambodian women in the country under new rules designed to crack down on sham marriages and human trafficking, the government said today [16 March]. Foreigners who earn less than $2,580 per month are also barred from wedding local women, foreign [...]
...read moreJapan
Sending prayers and positive thoughts their way. Anyone know of good local relief organizations worth donating to?
...read moreChecking in with the women of Kazakhstan
Well, the campaign for Kazakhstan’s 3 April election has just kicked off, and women are coming under the spotlight, too. In celebration of the country’s twentieth anniversary of independence, the First Congress of Kazakhstan Women has just taken place in the capital city, Astana. From Kazinform: The event brought together about 1, 000 delegates from [...]
...read moreAnatomy of an Adoption Crisis
This article by EJ Graff is a fascinating look into international adoption practices. It pulls the cover back on the myth that there are thousands upon thousands of adoptable babies in the world, just waiting to be saved from poverty and abandonment. In fact, international adoption operates very much on the gray market, with babies [...]
...read moreMaking Outpatient Abortion Services a Reality
This is the third in a series of posts coming from the Global Maternal Health Conference in New Delhi, the first conference of its kind. According to EngenderHealth‘s Maternal Health Task Force’s website, ‘Every minute, a woman dies from complications related to childbirth or pregnancy. While most maternal deaths are preventable, poor health services and [...]
...read moreLocal Context Matters to Women’s Lives: A Report from Delhi
This is the second in a series of posts coming from the Global Maternal Health Conference in New Delhi, the first conference of its kind. According to EngenderHealth‘s Maternal Health Task Force’s website, ‘Every minute, a woman dies from complications related to childbirth or pregnancy. While most maternal deaths are preventable, poor health services and [...]
...read moreGlobal Maternal Health Conference 2010: Empowering the Next Generation
This is the first in a series of posts coming from the Global Maternal Health Conference in New Delhi, the first conference of its kind. According to EngenderHealth‘s Maternal Health Task Force’s website, ‘Every minute, a woman dies from complications related to childbirth or pregnancy. While most maternal deaths are preventable, poor health services and [...]
...read moreOpening up opportunities for women in an Indian prison
Last month, Yerawada prison in Maharashtra, India, became in part an open prison. Prachi Pinglay of the BBC reports that ‘women will soon be allowed to roam the premises and farmland in relative freedom’. Inspector General (Prisons) Uddhav Kamble explains that ‘Selected women inmates will mostly work in fields during the day and return to [...]
...read moreExciting times for women’s political representation in India.
From the New York Times (link via this ain’t livin’): The upper house of India’s Parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would amend the Constitution to reserve one-third of the seats in India’s national and state legislatures for women, after the measure stirred two days of political chaos that could whittle the governing coalition’s majority [...]
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