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Images of an Israeli soldier holding up a rainbow flag in the ruins of the Gaza Strip have deeply offended members of the Palestinian LBGTQ+ community and their allies.
Yoav Atzmoni says he wrote 'in the name of love' on the LGBTQ+ flag in response to seeing Palestinian houses with 'bismillah' on their walls
If you are a victim-survivor mother, the perpetrating father wants your life to completely revolve around pleasing them and serving them and their needs. They want themselves to be the absolute center of your life, attention and resources.
Emma Katz published a post on Ko-fi
Websites like Jezebel revived feminism, showing the internet might have a re-radicalizing effect. Who will carry the torch?
Websites like Jezebel revived feminism, showing the internet might have a re-radicalizing effect. Who will carry the torch?
As the humanitarian crisis inside the besieged territory deepens—over 10,000 civilians have now been killed, 40% of them children, according to Palestinian officials—pregnant women and their newborn children are left to bear the brunt of a healthcare system in a state of total collapse.
Pregnant women and their newborn children bear the brunt of a healthcare system in total collapse.
Young Chinese women are increasingly seeking to break out of traditional gender norms. For many, that starts with building a muscular physique — and learning to kick some butt.
Young Chinese women are increasingly seeking to break out of traditional gender norms. For many, that starts with building a muscular physique — and learning to kick some butt.
"As feminists, we know that the struggle for women's liberation is bound to the collective struggle against capitalism and imperialism, whether we are fighting from Iran, the Global North, or Palestine" - from the movement
Massachusetts Review
“I refuse any invitation from an institution that supports the collective punishment of a trapped civilian population—50% of whom are children,” author Rupi Kaur said in a statement, adding that the Biden administration continues to “justify this genocide against Palestinians.”
The poet slammed US support for ‘the collective punishment of a trapped civilian population’.
A Japanese male university student allegedly posted on X, formerly Twitter, "deep fake" photos combining female track and field athletes with other images to make them look naked.
TOKYO -- Police sent papers on a male university student to prosecutors on Nov. 6 for allegedly posting on X, formerly Twitter,
“It’s great to see so many people coming together, that is what the Gay Games is all about, bringing people from all backgrounds together,” Lisa Lam, co-chair of the Hong Kong event, said. “But it’s only a small step in a long journey [for the LGBTQ community].”
Gay Games Hong Kong co-chair Lisa Lam says ‘it’s only a small step in a long journey’.
At least 10,800 people have been killed, including more than 4,400 children, according to the health ministry in Gaza.
More than 26,000 Gazans have been wounded since war erupted, many of them left with life-changing injuries.
"If I'm deported back to Afghanistan, definitely, we will be arrested by the current regime, and they will punish us, because our crime was we worked for international organisations," Zahra said.
"I want to request to the Pakistan government, please don't send us back, we worked to promote women's empowerment and now our life is in danger."
When the Pakistani government abruptly announced all foreigners illegally living in the country had to leave, hundreds of thousands of Afghans packed up and headed to the border. But these two women decided to stay, fearing they would be worse off if they returned to their homeland.
What does it mean to practice feminism in a moment of bearing witness to genocide?
Palestine Square
An LGBT advocacy group has urged the Japanese government to ensure all pregnant women have access to the same level of medical support after a woman in a same-sex relationship who became pregnant through in-vitro fertilization was denied treatment at a hospital.
An LGBT advocacy group urges the Japanese government to ensure all pregnant women have access to the same level of medical support after a woman in a same-sex relationship who became pregnant through in-vitro fertilization was denied treatment at a hospital.
The first Gay Games in Asia has faced a political backlash in co-host city Hong Kong after a group of conservative lawmakers called on authorities to scrap the event – and even suggested it could breach a sweeping national security law.
Junius Ho, a firebrand legislator known for both his intense pro-Beijing nationalism and opposition to gay rights, said said the event could breach provisions within the new national security law that ban foreign powers interfering in Hong Kong’s governance.
The first Gay Games in Asia has faced a political backlash in co-host city Hong Kong after a group of conservative lawmakers called on authorities to scrap the event – and even suggested it could breach a sweeping national security law.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike Monday, 6 November, over being blocked along with other inmates from getting medical care and to protest the country’s mandatory headscarves for women, a campaign advocating for the activist said.
A campaign urging Iran to free Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says the activist has begun a hunger strike over the conditions of her imprisonment and the country’s requirement that women wear headscarves.
Pregnant Palestinian women are facing miscarriages and premature births in the Gaza Strip, where hospitals have not been spared from Israeli bombings since a new conflict began Oct. 7.
Israeli army targeting Palestinian hospitals in Gaza Strip including Al-Shifa Hospital, Al-Quds Hospital, Indonesian Hospital. - Anadolu Ajansı
In a move that has upturned countless lives, Pakistan ordered all Afghan refugees and migrants without official identity documents to leave the country by November 1 – and vowed to deport any who remain after that date.
“My children have been pulled out of school – the day my children didn’t go to school was like a day of dying for me,” Nasim said. “In Afghanistan there is no school for girls.”
Earlier this week Nasim was leaving the only home he’s ever known, trudging toward Pakistan’s border alongside tens of thousands of fellow Afghan refugees who like him have been given a deadline to depart the country.
When Wang Xia opened Shanghai’s first “female-friendly” bookstore in 2020, she just wanted to create a safe space for women to express themselves. She had no idea how successful — or potentially sensitive — the business would become.
When Wang Xia opened Shanghai’s first “female-friendly” bookstore in 2020, she just wanted to create a safe space for women to express themselves. She had no idea how successful — or potentially sensitive — the business would become.
“Even by the low standards” set amid decades of Israeli apartheid, The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) said, current coverage has hit “a new low.”
“Even by the low standards” set amid decades of Israeli apartheid, the group said, current coverage has hit “a new low.”…
Hong Kong’s Gay Games “have not been a political organisation, nor carried any political objectives,” an organiser has said, amid anti-LGBTQ criticism of same-sex marriage from some lawmakers.
Lisa Lam's remarks came after a group of self-proclaimed “patriotic citizens” filed a petition against the games at the legislature on Wednesday, as a lawmaker claimed that hosting the event amounted to “soft resistance” and a threat to national security.
Hong Kong’s Gay Games “have not been a political organisation, nor carried any political objectives,” an organiser has said, amid anti-LGBTQ criticism of same-sex marriage from some law…
The arrest of a prize-winning Iranian rights lawyer has compounded the anger expressed by rights groups over the death of a teenage girl who activists say was fatally beaten by the Tehran morality police.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, 60, was arrested at the funeral on Sunday in Tehran of Armita Garawand, 17, whose death was reported by Iranian state media at the weekend after a month in a coma.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a Sakharov Prize winner, has been sent to women’s prison outside of Tehran
“We should actively foster a new type of marriage and childbearing culture,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a speech at the opening of the National Women’s Congress, adding that it was the role of party officials to influence young people’s views on “love and marriage, fertility and family.”
The Communist Party’s solution to the country’s demographic crisis and a slowing economy is to push women back into traditional roles.
In Gaza, injured patients are having to undergo surgery without anesthetics, including pregnant women being admitted for emergency C-sections.
Due to the lack of capacity in hospitals, women are being discharged within as little as three hours after giving birth. An average of 160 pregnant women are expected to give birth every day over the next month in Gaza.
CARE is increasingly concerned by reports it receives from medical personnel in Gaza, including that pregnant women are being forced to undergo emergency C-sections without anaesthetics.
Marriage is not now and never has been designed with women’s happiness in mind – and yet we’re told that without it, we will be miserable.
As any sociologist can tell you, it’s men who benefit from marriage: they live longer, they are generally healthier and happier, and their economic prospects improve. On the other hand, studies have shown that married women die earlier. And marriage alone isn’t a guarantee of happiness for women – they are happy if they have a happy marriage.
From the true purpose of the ‘best man’ to losing right to property, marriage was never designed to benefit women. It can’t be fixed – it must be rejected, writes Clementine Ford
Tablets used to delay periods can cause negative side effects but without access to water and hygiene products, women in Gaza say they have no choice but to use them.
With no access to water or pads, women say they have little choice but to use these tablets amid the Israeli offensive.
Same-sex marriage remains out of reach – a painful jolt of reality for Henry Li when the Hong Kong morgue refused to let him identify Edgar Ng’s body.
“They were telling me that my husband was not my husband and that I was nobody,” Li said. “I couldn’t react. I froze.”
By Holmes Chan in Hong Kong Wedding photos of Henry Li and Edgar Ng show the couple holding hands, surrounded by beaming friends — the freeze-frame of joy a contrast to the two men’s st…
A teenage Iranian girl who fell into a coma after she was allegedly assaulted by the country’s morality police for not wearing a headscarf has died.
Armita Geravand, 16, was hospitalized with head injuries following the alleged assault at a Tehran metro station earlier this month, according to activists, just weeks after Iran passed draconian legislation imposing much harsher penalties on women who breach the country’s already strict hijab rules.
A teenage Iranian girl who fell into a coma after she was allegedly assaulted by the country’s morality police for not wearing a headscarf has died, according to Iranian state media.
Greenpeace campaigner Iris Hsueh and her fiance are having their “environmentally friendly wedding” in January, and have asked guests to bring their own containers for taking home leftovers.
Nantou County, Taiwan A Taiwanese couple decked out in a tux and gown embrace in front of a mountain of trash in an unorthodox wedding photo — one the environment-conscious bride hopes w…
The message leading Western feminists are sending to Palestinian women is loud and clear: your suffering does not matter.
The message leading Western feminists are sending to Palestinian women is clear: your suffering does not matter.
For LGBT Gazans, the specter of death from the Israel-Hamas war only compounds what was already a struggle to live freely in a place where homosexual relations between men is outlawed and open queerness violates social and religious mores.
The platform is providing space for LGBT people in Gaza to share messages of solidarity, love, and loss.
The government wants Hong Kong couples to “have children early” while they are still “in their prime,” Chief Executive John Lee has said in response to a lawmaker’s suggestion about improving the city’s egg freezing policy.
“Everyone hopes that if they have children while they are in their prime, their babies will be stronger,” Lee said.
The government wants Hong Kong couples to “have children early” while they are still “in their prime,” Chief Executive John Lee has said in response to a lawmaker’s su…
The new term Child and Mother Sabotage (CAMS) is an alternative to the problematic term ‘parental alienation’ (‘PA’) and offshoots of it in family courts.
- SHERA Research Group - Leading Innovative Research into the Health Impacts of Domestic Abuse on Women and Children
As the divorce rate in China rises, attitudes to separations are changing, with young women now throwing parties to mark the end of married life.
As the divorce rate in China rises, attitudes to separations are changing, with young women now throwing parties to mark the end of married life
Iran's state news agency IRNA said Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi were sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison respectively on charges, including collaboration with the U.S. government and acting against national security.
Lawyers for the two journalists have rejected the charges.
An Iranian Revolutionary Court has handed out long prison sentences to two women journalists over their coverage of the death in custody of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini last year, state media reported on Sunday.
Despite Palestinian women’s long history of standing up against injustices, there has always been a lack of support from Western feminist groups and human rights organisations. It is evident that when it comes to women living in the Third World, mainstream feminism has always turned a blind eye.
Feminism which refuses to give space to Palestinian women and other women living under occupation, is in fact, not feminism at all
LGBTQ+ Indians pledged on Tuesday to keep fighting for marriage equality after the Supreme Court declined to legalise same-sex weddings, but said they feared a long wait due to the government's opposition to gay unions.
India's top court declines to legalise same-sex marriage Supreme Court judges say parliament must ...
A court in central Japan has ruled that it is unconstitutional to require a transgender person to undergo surgery to remove their current reproductive organs in order for them to receive documentation under their new gender.
The verdict in Shizuoka family court upholds a transgender plaintiff’s request to change their gender from female to male without having surgery, a decision that was hailed as a landmark by LGBTQ+ advocates.
A court in central Japan has ruled that it is unconstitutional to require a transgender person to undergo surgery to remove their current reproductive organs in order for them to receive documentation under their new gender.
A Hong Kong court has handed a victory to the LGBTQ community by rejecting two appeals from the Housing Authority relating to the public housing rights of same-sex couples.
The Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld two lower court decisions that the spousal policies of the city’s Public Rental Housing scheme and Home Ownership Scheme were unlawful and unconstitutional.
A Hong Kong court has handed a victory to the LGBTQ community by rejecting two appeals from the Housing Authority relating to the public housing rights of same-sex couples. The Court of Appeal on T…
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