Category: Feminism
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You Still Don’t Really Get It, Do You? (My Women’s Day Post)
I watched an episode of Oprah Winfrey once about dolphin conservation; she said saving dolphins was important because dolphins had been known to rescue humans. It made me so angry, and was another brick in the wall of my long drawn-out hatred of the woman. I couldn’t understand how she didn’t see how blatantly wrong and…
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One Billion Rising in Sri Lanka
We are rising to end violence against women on Valentine’s Day, 2013. Rising because we can; we must. Because we as a society are responsible for what happens to our women. Because it’s important for our sons to know what we know, that they learn what we have learned. Because on this day of ‘love’,…
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We Will Never Know Her Name
Yesterday morning the young 23 year old woman who was raped and beaten in Delhi on December 16th, succumbed to her injuries, giving up the harrowing fight for her life in Singapore – far from her home, and removed, I presume, from many of her loved ones. While she was removed from her home, the…