Slate’s Double X: where they praise one woman by putting down others
I’ve already written about my dislike of Slate’s Double X (and more specifically it’s offensive byline “What women really think about news, politics, and culture”). …
Yale University returns ancient Inca artifacts to Peru
President Alan Garcia welcomes the first shipment of Inca artifacts to Peru. via BBC News – Peru welcomes back Inca artefacts from Yale University Peru …
I just got a wedding invitation
It read: “Dress code: be your colorful self!”. Oh no, dear friend… in my case, you do not really mean that. I promise you.
This is kind of unrelated but, living in a country as El Salvador where there’s so much violence against women (Guatemala is the country where most women are murdered, I think, and they’re two hours away from us), there’s also so much stigma on the word “feminist”. Granted, I live in the better part of town, where my friends have never had to face things like this, but do they not read the news? When I tell any of them I’m a feminist, you would not believe the looks I get. Like I’m gonna get my gun and start killing men or something. People have made feminists here into a joke. Oh, look, the ridiculous feminists don’t want women to wear skirts! har har har. I just don’t understand, especially living in a country like this, how can they think feminism is not necessary? Or have they just been misinformed? What do you think?
Eh, chica, I wish I had a simple answer for you. I know this much: the stigma you experience in El Salvador, I also experienced …
The Backstage: on Women’s Police Stations in Latin America
While writing my last post for Tiger Beatdown I came across one of my usual roadblocks: translation. Later on my roadblock was solved when I …