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By vanessacoleman • 14 years ago

“The Land Where Rapists Go Free”

Crossposted at AMPLIFY.

Trigger warning.

"The Land Where Rapists Go Free"  is part of a series called Global Diaries that the journalist Mariane Pearl does for Glamour magazine. (Marianne Pearl is the wife of Daniel Pearl who was killed in 2003 by terrorists in Pakistan, she wrote the book A Mighty Heart that was later adapted into film). Global Diaires are amazing peieces written profiling women in the US and around the world. In the series Pearl usually focuses her attention on a problem that is disproportionately affecting women and then profiles a local female leader trying to make a difference.
By vanessacoleman • 14 years ago

Very young girls: Child Prostitution in the US

"Very Young Girls" is a harrowing film about a growing yet neglected problem in the US: child prostitution.  This film focuses on child prostitutes in New York but this is a problem throughout the United States and sadly not one that most people know about.

There are estimates that about 300,000 to 800,000 are children involved in child prostitution each year.  There are quite a lot of reasons that children get trapped in prostitution by brutal pimps. Some youth are street children and have been abandoned or run away from the foster care system. There are other cases of kids that had homes but were forced to run away because of abuse or violence at home. There ...

"Very Young Girls" is a harrowing film about a growing yet neglected problem in the US: child prostitution.  This film focuses on child prostitutes in New York but this is a problem throughout the United States and ...
By vanessacoleman • 14 years ago

Young Feminists: Interview with Eva Mckend

Crossposted at AMPLIFY .

Eva is an editorial intern for Ms. magazine in Los Angeles, California. Ms. magazine is an amazing feminist quarterly that I personally love because  of its compelling stories and investigative reporting. At once, the features may focus more on contemporary events and issues in feminism as well as profiling amazing feminists and their work. At the same time, the magazine focuses on international and domestic issues. It is no wonder that someone like Eva would be attracted to intern for this landmark feminist publication (Ms.  was founded in 1971 by Gloria Steinam and Letty Cottin Pogrebin).

Eva McKend is featured on this program because she is an awesome example of a young feminist. Although Eva is only ...

Crossposted at AMPLIFY .

Eva is an editorial intern for Ms. magazine in Los Angeles, California. Ms. magazine is an amazing feminist quarterly that I personally love because  of its compelling stories and investigative reporting. At once, ...
By vanessacoleman • 14 years ago

FGM: Human Rights vs Cultural Relativity

Given this complex issue, it is no wonder that this practice is so hard to eradicate. That is not even considering the cultural relativity argument that is often used by the proponents of FGM . These people claim that those who are trying to abolish FGM are ethnocentric-cultural-imperialists. One paper compared Breast Implants to Female Genital Mutilation as an example of this debate. Here is a striking anecdote :

"A student related to me that she had a conversation with a Nigerian, male friend in which she told him that she was very excited that her professor was writing an article on female genital mutilation. She reported that the he became enraged and shouted, “How dare this American ...

Given this complex issue, it is no wonder that this practice is so hard to eradicate. That is not even considering the cultural relativity argument that is often used by the proponents of FGM . These ...
By vanessacoleman • 15 years ago

2009 Summit on Intl WOmen’s Issues @ Cornell

I am trying to add an event to the events calendar, here is what I wanted to post for today through March 7 to encourage people to register for the 2009 Summit on Intl Women’s Issues @ Cornell University:

this announcement about a student-organized conference on International Women’s Issues in Global health and Development that will be taking place at Cornell this March 7, 2009. Not only will students get the opportunity to network other students, faculty, medical students, physicians and professionals they will also get the chance to network with our amazing keynote speaker Dr. Claudia Morrissey – President of the American Medical Women’s Association and representative of the World Health Organization committee on gender, women and health as ...

I am trying to add an event to the events calendar, here is what I wanted to post for today through March 7 to encourage people to register for the 2009 Summit on Intl Women’s Issues @ ...