Monday, November 16, 2009

womenmsmag

Caster Semenya, silver metal stripped for intersex result

katie reyes, age 13 first girl to hit the winning home run in the Little League World Series, Canadian
1984 only 15 girls have played in the Series

Peta can kiss my big fat vegetarian ass.

marga gomez, one of the first openly lesbian comics

November 25th, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
volunteer, advocate against violence
www.unifem.org/campaigns/vaw

January 22, 2010
Roe v. Wade Anniversary
www.now.org
www.naral.org
www.blogforchoice.com
www.ipas.org
www.guttmacher.org
www.feminist.org
www.feministcampus.org

Pakistan was the nation with the first Muslim woman presidential candidate (Fatima Jinnah, 1965) and the first women head of government in the Muslim world (Benazir Bhutto, 1988).

Moderate Taliban IDed by:

-any leaders whose daughters, mother, sisters, and/or wife are educated without restriction on grade level or subjects;

-any leader willing to escort the women and girls of his family to a male physician if he is on duty;

-any leader whose female family members have paid employment or are self-employed;

-but any leader who has advocated killing of individuals or groups that disagree with his viewpoint is not eligible for moderate status

*don't involve whether a woman is veiled, which is a personal and cultural choice

-Rebiya Kadeer leads Uighur resistance

-Nobel Peace Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Wangari Maathai, Mairead Maguire, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Betty Williams, Jody Williams, Aung San Suu Kyi
-www.nobelwomensinitiative.org

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