CLICK HERE TO READ Feminist Africa is a continental gender studies journal produced by the community of feminist scholars. It provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy. Feminist Africa attends to the complex and diverse dynamics of creativity and resistance that have emerged in postcolonial Africa, and the manner in which [...]
Posts Tagged ‘education’
feminist africa
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activism, education, feminism, imperialism on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
we need better sex-ed!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, sex on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
yeah!!!! The theme for this Sex Ed class shifted from the “You’re going to be a fat, knocked up 15-year-old with visible, terminal lesions all over your nether-regions’ to ‘You’re going to go away to college, be sexually assaulted by a masked assailant who will never be caught, and subsequently be left for dead in [...]
Boy, 4, Chooses Long Locks and Is Suspended From Class
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, cultural shame, education, gender roles on January 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On not letting a child break gender roles HOUSTON — A suburban Dallas school district has suspended a 4-year-old from his prekindergarten class because he wears his hair too long and does not want his parents to cut it. The boy, Taylor Pugh, says he likes his hair long and curly. But on Monday night, [...]
Women’s Happiness 201
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, equality, income, nytimes on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Follow-up to that other article posted a while ago: Here
a take on women’s rights in arab societies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arab, change, education, employment, Islam, modernity on August 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is a really long excerpt from Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi’s book, Beyond the Veil, first published in 1975, later edited in 1987. I read the whole thing and it gave me a better understanding of male-female dynamics in modern Muslim society. Islam’s basically positive attitude toward sexuality is more conducive to healthy perspectives of [...]
The reality of “male-bashing”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, language, men, violence on August 9, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Here, a blogger talks about his experiences teaching women’s studies at a university. This particular post, and the comments on it, remind me of people using the phrase “No offense…but”, when they actually do mean to be offensive, but they’re also trying to get off the hook.
Penis Graffiti
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anatomy, chauvinism, education, gendered insults, graffiti, media, power, terrorism on June 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Remember in high school when people were constantly drawing penises everywhere. I always chalked this up to immaturity/silliness. But I was talking to orkinson the other day and she thinks that it is a manifestation of patriarchy, and even a form of terrorism, not that different from, say, drawing swastikas everywhere. Although the people I [...]
Fight On Sisters!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, feminism, media on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just found this archive of historical documents from the W.L.M.: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/ Thought it might interest people besides me. If it doesn’t, sorry for this unnecessary post. But guess what! They have songs! http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/fighton/fighton-p04-72.jpeg See what it says above the first line there?–”With spirit”. Hell yes with spirit.
education
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, male privilege on May 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
do we think that the american college education system is skewed in favor of men? im in the middle of finals at my all-women’s college, and the question just occurs to me. i think i read about it somewhere at some time in the very distant past. ideas? edit: i found this boring article if [...]
LIVE BLOGGING!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, media, public relations, revival on April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By “Live Blogging” I mean not that I will be blogging live on some event. I mean that our blog is ALIVE! Though it’s been kind of sick for the past few weeks. Reasons for why the blog was sick: 1. Maybe it’s that fight me and Ben had. I hope you come back Ben! [...]
