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| South Africa
Soweto: the black students’ rebellion of 1976Its forty years today since a peaceful demonstration by black students in Soweto was met by brutal police violence. resulting in the death of twenty three people. -> read article... |
| Women
Pakistan’s history of rape impunityViolence against women won’t end until the country’s elites are held accountable. The alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old girl by a group of men in Lahore, Pakistan, made national headlines in the first week of January — not least because one of the accused men is a member of the youth wing of the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz, the political party ruling the country. -> read article... |
| Sexual politics
Homegrown Feminism in the CaribbeanFor women who built revolutions with their dreams and sewing machines. “Feminism cannot be monolithic in its issues, goals and strategies, since it constitutes the political expression of the concerns and interests of women from different regions, classes, nationalities, and ethnic backgrounds. While gender subordination has universal elements, feminism cannot be based on a rigid concept of universality that negates the wide variation of women’s experience. There is and must be a diversity of feminisms, responsive to the different needs and concerns of different women, and define by them for themselves.” — DAWN, 1987 -> read article... |