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YWLI's debut blog, Femzone is meant to provoke, challenge and inspire. It is intended to provide analysis in ways that bring out our strength and flexibility, diversity and adaptability as feminists without compromising our core values. Hosted by the YWLI Executive Director, Saida Ali, Femzone will not only inform, transform and inspire you but also entertain you through analysis of films, books and music that point to contemporary issues affecting our society. Femzone intends to step where angels fear to tread. It can only be hoped that Femzone will build alliances and solidarity by reaching out to groups and movements that are otherwise known to be invisible within the social justice circles.
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Courtesy The New York Times.
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Lesbians have always been present in various civil society movements, with gay men’s organizations, in feminist groups, as well as in the artistic sphere and in the fight for decolonization and independence of their country. In recent decades lesbians have been present in the fight for equal rights for women of colour, aborigen women, and more broadly with feminist movements.
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I am a human rights defender and I believe that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated with dignity. I also believe that as a human rights worker, I do not choose what rights to defend and what not to give attention to.
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GLOBAL: Male circumcision does not protect women
JOHANNESBURG, 17 July (IRIN) - New research suggests that circumcising HIV-positive men does not reduce the risk of their female partners becoming HIV-infected.
The findings, reported on 17 July in the British medical journal, The Lancet, emerged from a clinical trial in Rakai District, southern Uganda, involving 922 HIV-infected men and 163 of their HIV-negative female partners.
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This book leaves the reader saying, " I am a feminist. I swear". What you expect to get when you read Jessica Valenti's book is just what the title suggests, "Full frontal feminism!"...no buts no ifs and no apologies whatsoever for naming yourself as a feminist. When you read it you understand why she also calls it a young woman's guide to why feminism matters.
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Day two of the gender festival was very exciting. The theme of the day was movement building in a diverse society. There were various break-away sessions after plenary, all of which captured the spirit of movement building based on teh work that the various groups do.
