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Hollaback! Video

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshNovember 6, 2014

Many of you will have already seen this viral video — published on October 28, with already more than 33 million views — by the Hollaback! organization. If not, have a look.

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UPDATE: To put this in an international perspective, a woman conducts the same experiment in New Zealand and has a very different experience.

“Rape Is Not a Data Problem: The tech sector has tackled sexual violence like it tackles laundry delivery, and entirely missed the point”

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 30, 2014

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Another nice piece at The Atlantic.

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Posted on October 30, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 30, 2014

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Another nice piece at The Atlantic.

“Rise of the Feminist Tinder-Creep-Busting Web Vigilante”

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 28, 2014

Following up on Ula Klein’s last contribution, yet another online forum in which women are subject to undue harassment: online dating sites.

It would be ridiculous if a stranger showed you his penis in a bar and didn’t suffer repercussions. So why, these women ask, are online daters allowed to assail each other with visual and written obscenity? [….]

And in this day and age, it’s not like online dating is a fringe activity that women can simply recuse themselves from, she says.

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Find the article at The Atlantic. It includes anecdotes, a few statistics, and some of the efforts women are making to fight back. O, if you just want to laugh until your stomach hurts, read this.

“Rise of the Feminist Tinder-Creep-Busting Web Vigilante”

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 28, 2014

Following up on Ula Klein’s last contribution, yet another online forum in which women are subject to undue harassment: online dating sites.

It would be ridiculous if a stranger showed you his penis in a bar and didn’t suffer repercussions. So why, these women ask, are online daters allowed to assail each other with visual and written obscenity? [….]

And in this day and age, it’s not like online dating is a fringe activity that women can simply recuse themselves from, she says.

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Find the article at The Atlantic. It includes anecdotes, a few statistics, and some of the efforts women are making to fight back. O, if you just want to laugh until your stomach hurts, read this.

“Mal-Veiling”

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 22, 2014

A reader brings this to my attention with a request I share it with the rest of our readership:

Recently, eight Iranian women have had acid thrown in their faces under the pretext of “mal-veiling”. This kind of attack is unfortunately not without precedent. The attacks, committed by a mullah-affiliated gangs, have incited the outrage of Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, whose Ten This major problem has become a small problem but this can cheapest levitra affect your life badly. Let your personal soft cialis pills doctor know your health fitness, consequently the dosage amount will be directed. Here, the article talks online doctor viagra about some very useful and effective medicines used to increase erection quality for enjoyable and pleasurable intercourse activity. The first is Clicking Here purchase levitra online to get a customer’s opt-in by sending a mail to the user’s inbox for validation. Point Manifesto for Gender Equality seeks to eradicate inequality and violence against women in Iran.

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Now Available: IJFAB Special Issue on Transnational Reproductive Travel

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 22, 2014

By Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University),
co-guest editor of the issue together with Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie University)

Medical travel, and more specifically transnational reproductive travel, is a burgeoning practice—and an ethically controversial one because it so clearly capitalizes on differences in legal regimes, wages, and standards of living, as well as on cultural and ethical norms. It does so invariably to the detriment of the poor and the vulnerable.

This special issue of IJFAB makes a unique contribution, from an explicitly feminist perspective, to the ethical debates surrounding transnational reproductive travel. Specifically, it highlights some of the challenges with the cross-border movement of both reproductive material and people. This includes travel by reproductive laborers (i.e., women who provide eggs for third-party reproduction and women who provide gestational services), and intended parents.

The collection includes articles on the regulation of reproductive travel by Dominique Martin and Stefan Kane on “National Self-Sufficiency in Reproductive Resources: An Innovative Response to Transnational Reproductive Travel,” and G.K. D. Crozier, Jennifer L. Johnson, and Christopher Hajzler on “At the Intersections of Emotional and Biological Labor: Understanding Transnational Commercial Surrogacy as Social Reproduction.” These are followed by Angela Ballantyne’s “Exploitation in Cross-Border Reproductive Care.”
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Together, these articles provide the reader with feminist insights into a range of issues and perspectives that warrant further debate and discussion as many among us navigate borders while participating in a family-making project.

PJW Note: Interested readers may find the full TOC here. Unless you or your institution subscribes, however, the content is behind a paywall with individual articles or the entire issue available for purchase.

Now Available: IJFAB Special Issue on Transnational Reproductive Travel

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 22, 2014

By Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University),
co-guest editor of the issue together with Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie University)

The collection includes articles on the regulation of reproductive travel by Dominique Martin and Stefan Kane on “National Self-Sufficiency in Reproductive Resources: An Innovative Response to Transnational Reproductive Travel,” and G.K. D. Crozier, Jennifer L. Johnson, and Christopher Hajzler on “At the Intersections of Emotional and Biological Labor: Understanding Transnational Commercial Surrogacy as Social Reproduction.” These are followed by Angela Ballantyne’s “Exploitation in Cross-Border Reproductive Care.”
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UN Investigation into Britain’s Violation of Disabled People’s Human Rights

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Jackie Leach ScullyOctober 18, 2014

Things have come to a dismal pass for disabled people in Britain. That this country, once seen as a pioneer in the promotion of human rights (admittedly you have to go back to the 1950s and 60s for that, but still) should be the first country to be investigated by the UN for infringing the human rights of disabled people is embarrassing enough.

That there should be so little outcry within Britain about it is even worse.

The background to this is a systematic attack over the last 4 years by Britain’s current coalition government on disabled people. This regime shows every sign of having consciously and quite cynically selected 3 or 4 groups of people – groups that tend not to have a lot of powerful supporters or a strong political voice — to act as targets for its programme of cuts to public funding and support. Disabled people constitute one of these groups. This government’s austerity programme has seen draconian ‘restructuring’ – or dismantling – of the social supports that enable disabled people, and their families, to live anything approaching decent and fulfilling lives. It’s important I think to emphasise that the cuts have affected not just financial support to people so disabled they are unable to work. One of the key schemes (disclaimer: it’s one I’ve benefited from myself) is called Access to Work, which as its name suggests involves government grants towards equipment or other measures that enable a disabled person to be employed. It is generally acknowledged that Access to Work is a financial success story: for every £1 paid out, the government gets back £1.48 in income tax from disabled people kept in work. Despite this, the scheme is under threat; and given that it is such a financial winner, it’s hard not to see this as motivated not by real-life economics, but by the ideological need to keep up a story of disabled people as social burdens.

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Musings on the Value of “Awareness”

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 20, 2014

By
Leah D. Smith (Director of Public Relations, Little People of America)
and
Joseph A. Stramondo (Assistant Teaching Professor, Health Administration Department, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions)

A middle-aged man who decided to commute to work through the city via his bicycle on a cool, autumn day casts a glance to the side as he is stopped at a red light. Out of his peripheral vision, he catches the tell-tale bulb flash from a cell phone camera, so this time he is certain of what has happened. The young man sitting in the passenger seat of the car next to him smirks and gestures with his friends as they laugh at being caught snapping the photo of the man with dwarfism astride his bike.

A busy, thirty-something working professional’s meeting schedule doesn’t allow her to take time in the middle of the day to see her primary care doctor for the symptoms of the ear infection she has been dealing with for a week, so she goes to a walk-in clinic in the evening. Before she is even able to describe her symptoms, the physician interrupts her with aggressive questions about her stature, which she patiently answers, explaining that she was born with achondroplasia and has seen some of the best geneticists and orthopedic surgeons in the country. At the conclusion of the consult, along with the antibiotics for her middle-ear infection, the physician writes up a script for blood work, telling the woman that she needs to get the function of her thyroid checked because that may be the cause of her short stature.

Both of these stories are true and have recently happened to people close to us. They are two of a countless number of similar stories that are constantly told and re-told everywhere from family dinner tables to cocktail parties. When we were recently invited to write a guest post for the IJFAB blog about Dwarfism Awareness Month, we thought it best to provide a signal boost to these sorts of stories, simultaneously providing context for the rest of our argument.

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“Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man”

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 18, 2014

I look back on all my strenuous efforts, because I really did try, I tried hard to be a man, to be a good man, and I see how I failed at that. I am at best a bad man. An imitation phony second-rate him with a ten-hair beard and semicolons. So, all the effects and side effects will remain the same. prescription du viagra and Kamagra both you have to take before half an hour and should finish the activity in 4 hours. The greater the gap cheap viagra between the positive affirmation and the perceived inner truth, (note that I said clear, precise and attainable goals. Being the most popular aphrodisiac herb, it can provide relief to a number of sexual health and are not made for treatment or taking safe and effective drugs, such as the Diuretic and anti-inflammatory Pill. cialis no prescription uk You can easily order the capsules online. get viagra no prescription And I wonder what was the use. Sometimes I think I might just as well give the whole thing up.

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Left Out in the Cold: Seven Reasons not to Freeze Your Eggs

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshOctober 17, 2014

By Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University)

In 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) lifted the experimental designation on human egg freezing. At this time, it was careful to indicate that freezing technology should not to be used for elective purposes, particularly as this might give young women false hope. A 2014 fact sheet prepared by the ASRM confirms that “Even in younger women (i.e., < 38 years old), the chance that one frozen egg will yield a baby in the future is around 2-12%.”

These professional cautions are of no consequence to Facebook or Apple, however. Both of these companies have decided to include egg freezing in their employee benefit package. As an alternative, they could have decided to improve the health benefits offered to all employees. Or, to stay focused on the issue of reproduction, they could have included a full year of family leave in the benefit package. Instead, they chose to pay up to $20,000 for egg freezing. Now call me crazy, but I think this choice just might have to do with their corporate priorities – which include keeping talented workers in their 20s to early 30s in the workplace, not at home caring for babies.

Sadly, from my perspective, some describe this corporate decision in positive terms. They congratulate the companies for “taking the lead”. In this way, they both endorse the decision and encourage others to follow this lead. Already, Virtus Health in Australia has announced that it too will pay for egg freezing for its female employees. According to the Medical Director of Virtus “… if it’s good enough for Apple and Facebook, it’s good enough for us.”

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