UNITED KINGDOM Remember Calendar Girls? They were members of the Women's Institute, Britain's venerable "WI," which is celebrating its 100th Birthday by getting a face lift. http://www.theguardian.com/...
SPAIN Barcelona's First Woman Mayor Fights to Restore Her Country's "Kidnapped Democracy." http://www.theguardian.com/...
MOROCCO Théâtre Aquarium's play DIALY uses laughter to liberate women http://www.theguardian.com/...
RUSSIA Breaking the taboo: the Moscow women taking a stand against domestic violence http://www.theguardian.com/...
SOUTH SUDAN Amidst Hunger, Conflict and Discrimination, Girls Struggle to Get an Education http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
TURKEY -- ELECTION UPDATE -- TURKISH WOMEN ARE MAKING GAINS http://www.theguardian.com/...
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And from Australia - did you know there were dolls worse than Barbie? http://dolls.littlethings.com/...Intersectionality:
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On Sunday, June 7, police broke up a pool party for reasons variously described as responding to a fight and responding to a phone call telling the police there were "too many blacks". Anyone else notice he decides to give the worst treatment to a relatively small girl? We used to call those guys cowards.
TEXAS An interview with an abortion counselor who ran a clinic in Texas for many years. http://www.salon.com/...
What DO Women Want? ECONOMIC JUSTICE for Women is a Civil Rights Issue http://www.cnn.com/...
Top 18 Issues Women Are Facing Today http://shriverreport.org/...
A caution on forwarding and sharing missing person alerts. https://plus.google.com/...
RIP Ronnie Gilbert http://www.rollingstone.com/...
Women veterans suicide rates called "staggering." http://www.latimes.com/...
He'd probably like to return to the stocks and pillory too. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/..._
An existential experiment: https://www.facebook.com/...
The Fifth Circuit goes a little mad. http://rhrealitycheck.org/...
Georgia woman charted with malice murder after trying to abort second trimester fetus with mail-order medical abortion... http://www.slate.com/...
...which a judge says is illegal in Georgia as he dismissed the charge. http://www.dailykos.com/...
Congratulations to Elyse Hogue! http://jezebel.com/...
Three P's - Pregnancy, Parenting, Pro-Choice
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RAPE PREVENTION TRAINING PROGRAM FOR COLLEGE WOMEN http://www.salon.com/...
A family story of an illegal abortion. http://www.xojane.com/...
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