TAG: feminisms

China: Release on bail of five women’s rights activists an incomplete step

13 April 2015, 18:28 UTC The Chinese government must drop all charges against each of the five women activists released on bail late on Monday, Amnesty International said today. The five activists – Wei Tingting, Wang Man, Wu Rongrong, Li Tingting and Zheng Churan – arrested and detained on 7 March for planning to mark […]

Taking Feminist Battle to China’s Streets, and Landing in Jail

By ANDREW JACOBS APRIL 5, 2015 BEIJING — The young Chinese feminists shaved their heads to protest inequality in higher education and stormed men’s restrooms to highlight the indignities women face in their prolonged waits at public toilets. To publicize domestic violence, two prominent activists, Li Tingting and Wei Tingting, put on white wedding gowns, […]

The Fate of Feminism in Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan — On Feb. 12, 1983, 200 women — activists and lawyers — marched to the Lahore High Court to petition against a law that would have made a man’s testimony in court worth that of two women. The Pakistani dictator Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq had already promulgated the infamous Hudood Ordinance, which reflected […]

IDS Sexuality and Development November Newsletter

IDS Sexuality and Development November Newsletter is on the web and brings discussions about heteronormativity and patriarchy as well as other issues. Learn more.

How feminism became capitalism’s handmaiden – and how to reclaim it

Read article on The Guardian about how a movement that started out as a critique of capitalist exploitation ended up contributing key ideas to its latest neoliberal phase. Here.

Over 150 Trans* and Cis Feminists Sign International Statement For Trans*-Inclusive Feminism

In what organisers suggest is a ‘first of its kind’ move, an informal coalition of over 150 trans* and cis feminist activists, academics, writers and artists – from 11 different countries – have today (September 16) published a collective statement highlighting the prevalence of Transphobia within certain feminist movements spaces, and affirming ‘that feminism/womanism can […]

Judith Butler refused the Courage Award from the Berlin Pride

In 2010, June 19th, Judith Butler refused the Civil Courage Award of the Christopher Street Day Parade in Berlin, Germany, at the award ceremony, arguing that the parade had become too commercial, and was ignoring the problems of racism and the double discrimination suffered by homosexual or transsexual migrants. Read more.

Some reactions on the Butler’s refusal

> Judith Butler refuses Berlin Pride Civil Courage Prize 2010 (No Homonationalism) > Judith Butler 1 – Homonationalism 0 (Bully Bloggers) > Judith Buter turns down civil courage award from Berlin Pride (alana lenti. net)

Echoing Butler’s refusal

By Rosalind Petchesky and Sonia Corrêa* Judith Butler’s refusal to receive the Berlin Christopher Street Day (Gay Pride) Civil Courage Prize echoed ideas we have discussed in Sexuality, Health and Human Rights (2008). In the book we deliberately opted to avoid the term ‘fundamentalism’ – which is extensively used by sexual rights activists – to […]

First panel – Sexuality, States and Political Processes

First panel – Sexuality, States and Political Processes Morning—August 24 , 2009 The panel that followed was coordinated by Sérgio Carrara, co-director of the Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) and counted with Franklin Gil, associate researchers of the Escuela de Estudios de Género de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Elsa Muniz, […]