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[Creation of the] mural "Flying in sorority", by Mexican artist Adry del Rocío [in] Mexico City within the framework of the Generation Equality Forum. SEE THE NEWS ITEM BELOW! The mural was curated and produced by Street Art for Mankind in collaboration with UN Women … part of the #MuralesGeneraciónIgualdad that will be unveiled in Mexico City, Paris and New York. [del Rocio held] a creative inspiration workshop with a group of 15 feminists, from girls and adolescents to women of legal age [to capture the essence of an inter-generational feminist movement] in which the legacy of women is recognized [in] the struggles for rights, and hope placed in the vision of an egalitarian future built together with the girls and adolescents of this generation.
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Reuters Fndn “If he hits you, he loves you... myths and violence.” By Farai Shawn Matiashe
MUTARE, Zimbabwe June 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - "If he does not hit you, he does not love you enough" is the sort of age-old 'truism' that Zimbabwe activists say gives men free rein to beat their wives and stops women complaining.
But things are now changing, according to women's rights activists, albeit slowly and from a crashingly low base.
At least one in three women in Zimbabwe encounters physical violence, most at the hands of a husband or partner - a grim statistic that has only worsened in lockdown as domestic tensions play out around the clock and behind locked doors...
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IBID. Bolivia's Aymara women train to fight back against domestic violence — Indigenous women are learning taekwondo moves to protect themselves against attacks by partners or family members.
...In the high-altitude cities of La Paz and El Alto, indigenous "cholita" women … train wearing their distinctive billowing skirts and bowler hats as part of a female empowerment drive by the Warmi Power project [whose instructors teach the free classes. The Warmi Power project] says it has already reached some 20,000 Bolivian women. "Our workshops look at psychology, attitude and emotions, to empower women to be able to stop certain aggressions," said Laura Roca, a sports psychologist with the project.
The [domestic violence attacks most often come from] partners or other family members. UN Women data shows eight out of ten Bolivian women suffer some type of violence during the lifetime. This year Bolivian authorities have already tallied 48 femicides, mostly by partners or husbands of the victims. Reports of abuse are common, though most perpetrators never face justice despite robust laws meant to prevent gender violence.
"Men are not afraid of hitting women," said Huayhua, 52, who has five children. "That's why women live in great fear. I have suffered a lot of physical and psychological abuse [ever] since I was a child..."
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From belinda ridgewood’s KTK this week (more wonderful stuff there, too, e.g., from In the Heights):
— the Vox video below is “about the women who transformed blighted areas of 1960s-70s New York City through “radical acts of gardening”. ”
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I would like to make sure everyone has noticed that the splendid Val Demings (FL-10), one of the impeachment managers (in the first impeachment), is running for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat. (Those inclined may pitch in here.) [Aaaaand, <big>here’s our Denise with a Black Kos diary outlining what Val is facing and what we can do to help. Denise goes through how the same smears used against Kamala are getting tuned up by the same trolls, even white men on the “left”.] Perhaps you won’t be surprised to hear she’s bad because she’s a cop!!!1!! </big>Hmm, sounds familiar.]
Pakistan: The man trying
to improve women's
underwear:
...At a basic level, it comes down to the fact men and women have very different ideas when it comes to underwear. And when it comes to men, that generally tends to mean "sexy and appealing", explains Mr Moore.
"They talk and decide on laces and see-through fabric etc.. Whereas women want comfort and reliability of the product they use."
For the majority of the women in Pakistan - unable to afford the expensive imports - that comfort and reliability is something they can only dream of. Most of the affordable options are known to have clasps which rust and sharp underwires which worm their way out to poke the wearer's skin...
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UN Statement: Set women at the heart of recovery decisions and processes
Beyond public health, the pandemic has had far-reaching social and economic consequences for women and girls, exacerbating already high levels of violence against women, dramatically increasing the unpaid care burden on women, and, through rapid and lasting job losses, exposing the deep vulnerabilities of women’s engagement in the labour market. Overall, it has had a regressive impact on the ability of women and girls globally to claim and exercise their rights….
....The G7 outcomes precede the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, to be held 30 June to 2 July 2021 [following the GEF-Mexico Forum, March 2021], and from which it is expected that a five-year, consolidated set of ambitious, transformative, and well funded commitments to achieving gender equality will result. The Forum, convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, in partnership with youth and civil society, will be attended by Heads of State and will bring together a wide range of stakeholders in gender equality from across the world.
It aims to spur new action that accelerates progress in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action adopted by world leaders in 1995 [Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace] and achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards gender equality. The commitments of the G7 group of nations [Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and Us — the world's largest IMF - advanced economies and wealthiest liberal democracies;[1][2]] are an influential aspect of such new action, and we urge them to join us in Generation Equality, and to draw on upon the specific recommendations of the Gender Equality Advisory Council for their actions both domestically and globally.</big>
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.Reuters Fndn Sexual abuse 'normalised' in UK schools as boys pester girls for 'nudes' and share the images on WhatsApp and Snapchat 'like a collection game'…
...inspectors said... with some girls contacted by up to 11 boys a night asking for nude or semi-nude images. Nine in 10 schoolgirls interviewed … said sexist name-calling and being sent explicit pictures or videos happened "a lot" or "sometimes". Pressure to send nude pictures was also far more prevalent than adults realised, education watchdog Ofsted said in a report [of interviews of about 900 children and young people at 32 schools and colleges] as it called for urgent action to tackle the problem.
The chief inspector of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted), which inspects schools, Amanda Spielman said she was "shocked" by the findings. "It's alarming that many children and young people, particularly girls, feel they have to accept sexual harassment as part of growing up..."
Inspectors carried out the review after thousands of schoolchildren and college students posted testimonies on a site called Everyone's Invited, detailing sexual harassment, abuse and violence, including rape...
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WaPo Senate voted bipartisanly —21 Republicans joined 46 Democrats and two independents— to confirm tech critic Lina Khan for a seat on the 5-member Federal Trade Commission, the government’s primary antitrust watchdog. Pres. Biden has appointed her to chair it.
...Khan, 32, is known for her unconventional proposals to counter the tech giants’ power. While still in law school in 2017, she wrote a paper denouncing Amazon for what she said was anti-competitive behavior and suggesting U.S. anti-competition laws were poorly equipped to counter the world of e-commerce. (Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
She later served as counsel to a House investigatory panel that last year issued a report detailing what it said were the tech companies’ anti-competitive behavior. She is now an associate professor at Columbia Law School and previously worked as a legal adviser to FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra (D). She will be one of the youngest commissioners in the FTC’s history.
Biden’s decision to name Khan chair, which was announced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) at the beginning of a Senate hearing with tech executives Tuesday, was unexpected. As a candidate, he did not go as far as other liberal Democrats in calling for regulation of Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech giants….
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Medscape COVID-19 Tied to Spike in Suspected Suicide Attempts by Girls, on top of earlier data that mental health–related ED visits for youngsters age 12 to 17 years increased by 31% during 2020 compared with 2019.
Suspected attempts by teenaged girls have increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released June 11 by the [CDC, from about 71% of the nation's EDs in 49 states (all except Hawaii) and the District of Columbia]. Among children and adolescents aged 12 to 17 years, the average weekly number of emergency department (ED) visits for suspected suicide attempts was 22.3% higher during summer 2020 and 39.1% higher during winter 2021 than during the corresponding periods in 2019.
"Young persons might represent a group at high risk because they might have been particularly affected by mitigation measures, such as physical distancing (including a lack of connectedness to schools, teachers, and peers); barriers to mental health treatment; increases in substance use; and anxiety about family health and economic problems, which are all risk factors for suicide," write the authors, led by Ellen Yard, PhD, with the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. In addition, the findings from this study suggest there has been "more severe distress among young females than has been identified in previous reports during the pandemic, reinforcing the need for increased attention to, and prevention for, this population," they point out…
[In a statement respondng to the data, the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance) Media Messaging Work Group said] "Research indicates that a sense of belonging and social connectedness improves physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. Everyone can play a role in being there for each other and helping to build resiliency…."
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Reuters Twitter adds 'Arabic (feminine)' language option in diversity drive
DUBAI, June 15 (Reuters) - Twitter (TWTR.N) on Tuesday introduced an "Arabic (feminine)" language setting enabling the social media site to speak to users using feminine grammar, part of what it said was an inclusion and diversity drive. ...In Arabic, verbs agree with the gender of their subject. Masculine forms are used to address mixed or unknown audiences and are the default in most texts...
"We want our service to reflect the voices that shape the conversations that take place on our service," said Rasha Fawakhiri, Twitter's communications head for the Middle East and North Africa. Twitter did not introduce a non-binary gender language option in Arabic, but Fawakhiri said the company has other gender neutral projects in the works for the site. It has plans to add a designated gender pronoun field to Twitter profiles so people can display how they prefer to be addressed.
Until now, the instruction for the user to Tweet in Arabic had appeared only in the masculine form ... With a change of settings, this command can now appear ... as ... the feminine form. Twitter says it is the first social media site to introduce an "Arabic (feminine)" language option. Dubai-based global logistics company Aramex (ARMX.DU) in April added a similar language option to its corporate website….
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Reuters Fndn Victory for Thousands of current and former UK supermarket Tesco workers in equal pay dispute: Female-dominated shop staff win equal pay lawsuit in an international judgement that could affect thousands of other retailers.
...Tesco found itself in the spotlight after about 6,000 current or former employees took their grievance to an employment tribunal in Watford, near London [arguing that] the company's shop workers - mostly women - had not received equal pay for equal work compared with [Tesco’s] distribution workers - mostly men - since February 2018, in breach of EU and UK laws...
Tesco had argued an EU law defining equal pay for equal work, or work of equal value, was not directly applicable in this case. The UK tribunal [then] sought guidance from the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice (CJEU), Europe's highest, which rejected Tesco's arguments.
"The principle, laid down by EU law, of equal pay for male and female workers can be relied upon directly, in respect both of 'equal work' and of 'work of equal value', in proceedings between individuals," CJEU judges said. The court said it had jurisdiction over the case in accordance with Britain's withdrawal deal with the EU.
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KFF Women's Health Policy Women's Experiences with Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the KFF Women's Health Survey. Some of the Key Takeaways:
- Women are more likely to have gone without health care during the pandemic compared to men, and women with health and economic challenges prior to the pandemic have experienced worsening health conditions as a result of skipping health care services during the pandemic. These gaps in care could translate into higher numbers of women experiencing severe health issues after the health emergency from the pandemic resolves….
- Women with private insurance and Medicaid are nearly twice as likely to have received a COVID-19 test compared to uninsured women (45% and 41% vs. 28%). Uninsured individuals may have been less likely to seek a test out of fear of cost, which could have implications for uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, even though all COVID-19 vaccines are free regardless of insurance status...
- The pandemic has had a significant effect on people’s mental health, with 51% of women and 34% of men saying that worry or stress related to the pandemic has affected their mental health. Most say that the impact has been moderate or minor, but almost one-fifth (21% women, 17% men) say the toll has taken a major impact on their mental health. The high need for mental health care has highlighted long-standing gaps in the availability and signals that the demand will likely continue as people begin to process the trauma and loss they have experienced...
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From SandraLLAP, “Something tells me that they wouldn't have fired a male teacher for impregnating a woman out of wedlock: — wdrb.com in Kentucky Former Louisville teacher sues archdiocese after she was fired for premarital pregnancy
A former Catholic school teacher is suing the Archdiocese of Louisville for gender discrimination.
Sarah Syring was terminated from her position as a middle school English teacher at St. Andrew Academy on Jan. 8. Syring claims she was given the ultimatum to either resign or be fired because she and her partner were pregnant out of wedlock. School officials said it's the policy of the archdiocese.
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and I’d love to see vestiges of sexism eventually eradicated from my religion, as well — TimesOfIsrael.com UK teacher dropped by Orthodox school after she receives rabbinical ordination
Statement from Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis says Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz ‘stepped beyond the boundaries of mainstream Orthodoxy’...
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WaPo Amid dispute over Biden’s support of abortion rights, Catholic bishops voted to back controversial Communion document
U.S. Catholic bishops on Friday voted to back a measure that could be an early step toward limiting Communion for President Biden and other Catholic politicians who support abortion rights.
The vote to create guidelines on the meaning of Communion came after a 3½-hour emotional discussion Thursday at the annual spring meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Multiple bishops clashed over how, or if, they should single out the church’s teaching on abortion. And if they should single out politicians.
The draft document about the meaning of the Eucharist, a ritual that Catholicism teaches transforms bread and wine into the literal body and blood of Jesus, needed a simple majority vote. The measure passed 168 to 55, with six abstentions….
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Reuters Fndn Canada vows action on violence against indigenous women … but when? By Anna Mehler Paperny. On June 3
The Canadian government said ...it would direct more resources to First Nations police and address systemic racism in the justice system and law enforcement to tackle violence against indigenous women[, and give indigenous communities more control over some social services and improve access to health care, and address systemic racism among the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the national law enforcement agency responsible for policing many rural areas in the country, through improved recruitment and training, ] but gave no time frame for achieving its "transformative changes."…
"Plans are great, but what we need is action," said Denise Pictou-Maloney, co-chair of the National Family and Survivors Circle, which played an advisory role on the plan. She said she would like to see some change within a year, and an accountability mechanism ensuring actions are taken.
[The plan] comes two years after a report into the deaths of more than 1,000 aboriginal women and girls in recent decades called it a national genocide [and now] as the discovery of the remains of 215 [First Nations] children at a former [forced] residential school shocked the nation ...
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www.commondreams.org Indigenous Women Invite Deb Haaland to See Devastation of Line 3 for Herself
......The invitation was sent by Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation), Giniw Collective; (White Earth Nation), Honor the Earth; Taysha Martineau (The Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), Camp Migizi; Sasha Beaulieu (Red Lake Nation), Red Lake Treaty Camp; Simone Senogles (Red Lake Nation), Indigenous Environmental Network and RISE Coalition; and Joye Braun (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe), Indigenous Environmental Network.
The letter states:
The Army Corps of Engineers must immediately reevaluate and suspend or revoke Enbridge's Line 3 Clean Water Act Section 404 permit. The Army Corps failed to consider significant information … [and] also refused to prepare a federal Environmental Impact Statement for Line 3 [which] will run from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the shores of Lake Superior, crossing 227 lakes and rivers, including the headwaters of the Mississippi River and rivers that feed directly into Lake Superior, putting all those waterways at imminent risk of a spill from the 760,000 barrels of tar sands oil that would flow daily.
Climate scientists warn that we must ... drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions … Line 3 would release emissions equivalent to building 50 new coal plants, costing society more than $287 billion in climate impacts in just its first 30 years of operation. [It will] increase tar sands export by 370,000 barrels per day. In [this most severe drought era] Enbridge plans to take 630 million gallons of water from the fish and the wild rice. All of this puts our pristine ecosystems on the verge of collapse, with significant impacts on federally protected areas including major waterfowl production areas, and forested areas.
Not only does the spill-prone pipeline—which scientists and activists have described as a "climate time bomb"—threaten local ecosystems and communities while exacerbating the carbon pollution driving planetary heating, but opponents say it also puts Indigenous people at risk of physical and sexual violence.
"It is well documented that 'man camps' set up along the pipeline route are directly linked with increased rates of drug use, sex trafficking, and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls," the group wrote. "Already this year, two Line 3 pipeline workers in Itasca County, Minnesota were arrested and charged with human trafficking,..
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IndianCountryToday The 105th class of Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism, books, drama and music were announced Friday [June 11, including]:
Louise Erdrich, Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe — Pulitzer winner in fiction for “The Night Watchman”
Natalie Diaz, Mohave and Gila River Indian Community — Pulitzer winner in poetry for “Postcolonial Love Poem”
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”‘Homeless, not for the first time; broke, not for the last time,
I said to myself, ‘let me go home’ “
Last month the Rasmuson Foundation honored former Alaska Writer Laureate Ernestine Hayes, Tlingit, with its 2021 Distinguished Artist Award. Hayes is the author of two Alaska Native memoirs, “Blonde Indian,” and “The Tao of Raven.”
Telling the story of her life, she intermingles pride, love, poverty, shame, beautiful vistas, the perspectives of wildlife and the Earth, and Tlingit tales.
She writes about growing up with her Tlingit grandparents in a Native enclave in Juneau called the Indian Village, a remnant of Tlingit homelands, while her mother spent years recovering from Tuberculosis in a sanitarium...
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WaPo Former Mississippi state legislator Ashley Henley was found shot to death Sunday outside the burned rural home where her sister-in-law was found dead after Christmas.
...Henley, 40, and her husband … had transformed the place into a makeshift shrine, including an oversize wooden sign that read “I WAS MURDERED” — a visual reminder of the couple’s insistence that Jones had been deliberately killed and their claims that police haven’t taken the investigation seriously…
...over the weekend … former Mississippi state legislator Ashley Henley (R) — went to the Northern Mississippi property with a weed whacker to tidy up…
...[Ashley Henle] was shot [there], police told the North Mississippi Herald. Her death is being investigated as a homicide, the Yalobusha County coroner confirmed to The Washington Post.
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webMD&medscape Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act 7-2
..."To have standing, a plaintiff must 'allege personal injury fairly traceable to the defendant's allegedly unlawful conduct and likely to be redressed by the requested relief,'" the majority wrote. "No plaintiff has shown such an injury 'fairly traceable' to the 'allegedly unlawful conduct' challenged here..."
...The decision said that the mandate in question did not require the 18 states that brought the complaint to pay anything, and therefore they had no standing…
...Justice Stephen Breyer authored the opinion. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented...
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www.axios.com A federal appeals court on Wednesday affirmed that North Carolina's ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional and poses threat of prosecution to abortion providers
...as the U.S. Supreme Court ta
kes on Mississippi's restrictive ban and the constitutionality of "pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions." After the North Carolina legislature amended the 1973 ban — a measure similar to laws in 15 other states — to limit medical exemptions in 2015, the law was challenged in court. State officials chose not to defend its constitutionality, but argued the suit has no standing because the threat of prosecution is not credible since no abortion providers have been prosecuted under the ban...
...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected their argument on Wednesday. Citing "a wave of similar state action across the country" restricting abortion, Judge Diana Motz [a Clinton nominee, joined unanimously by Judges Albert Diaz and Julius Richardson, nominated by Obama and Trump, respectively] wrote in the opinion that "we cannot reasonably assume that the abortion ban that North Carolina keeps on its books is 'largely symbolic’ … As a nation we remain deeply embroiled in debate over the legal status of abortion. While this conversation rages around us, this court cannot say that the threat of prosecution to abortion providers who violate the law is not credible."
...GOP-led state legislatures have proposed or passed increasingly restrictive abortion bans in an effort to push the conservative-majority Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling….
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Happened upon this wik article on Judith Lorber who has probably been in w0w2 November diaries as well:
New DK group: Fundraiser team for Vetwife ■ homepage & posting history
Group founded June 5, 2021 by userexists — Kossacks willing to help promo Vetwife's legal aid fundraiser
LATEST DIARY: UPDATE: Nearly 40% there!! Help Vetwife Get her Great-Granddaughter Safely Home.
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
June 26 — ramara
July 3 — elenacarlena
July 10 —
July 17 —
July 24 —
July 31 —
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker may not be around the next couple Saturdays (family visiting for the first time in a year, yay!), so somebody please remember to post the schedule comment.