Caster Semenya Case Opening Old Wounds
I was watching the track and field championships in Berlin last month when Caster Semenya won her 800m gold medal in the fifth fastest time ever run by a woman. But as I know from my time on planet Earth, if an African descended female athlete excels in spectacular fashion, we get accused of cheating [...]
...read moreGoodbye Goodbye
My last day as a guest blogger! I want to thank the Feministe regulars for sharing your corner of the interwebs with me. Thank you to the readers who read my posts, and especially thank you to those of you who posted thoughtful responses to them. Like many guest bloggers before me, I leave you [...]
...read moreTesting and Early Treatment: HPV & Cervical Cancer in Low-Resource Settings
Over the last several years, Gardasil and the concept of vaccinating against human papillomavirus (HPV) have gotten quite a lot of press here in the United States. But combating HPV and cervical cancer in developing nations is a whole other challenge. More than a quarter of a million women die from cervical cancer every year, [...]
...read moreAmid War in U.S. Health Care and Afghanistan: Midwifing Life
Cross-posted at RH Reality Check I received two emails in my inbox today. One was from The Big Push for Midwives, asking for help in advocating for greater access to Certified Professional Midwifery (CPM) nationally. The group is basically petitioning Congress to add CPMs to the Medicaid provider list in order to make midwifery an [...]
...read moreTroubled Waters: Women on Waves Faces Many Challenges
NRC Handelsblad has a long article up about changes in laws around abortion in the Netherlands, which is pushing the amazing organization Women on Waves to cancel upcoming boat trips to provide abortions and information to women who cannot get them in their home countries. Rebecca Gomperts, who founded the organization ten years ago, is [...]
...read moreThe Urge to Help: International Feminisms and Advocacy
Before starting to work at the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) last fall, I hadn’t really had much interaction with feminists and women’s health and rights issues outside of the global north. I had traveled internationally to work and lecture, but my travel had been limited to Western Europe (not that I’m complaining, getting paid [...]
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