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Ugandan hit list further confirms an age of rampant homophobia
If one needs more evidence beyond teen suicides and the uphill DADT battle to realize that the state of rampant, unchecked homophobia is at an all-time high, check out this recent issue of the Ugandan...
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Ugandans named in anti-gay hit list win damages, injunction
The Guardian reports that a high court in Uganda has awarded just over £400 each in damages to 3 individuals named in a lawsuit against the Rolling Stone newspaper that published a list of 100 people...
View ArticleUgandan activist named on anti-gay hit list found murdered
Trigger warning Fucking fuck. Remember the Ugandan newspaper “hit list” of 100 gay and lesbians, including names, pictures, and home addresses including a headline reading “Hang Them”? Well, after...
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What We Missed
Dagmar Wilson, founder of Women Strike for Peace and organizer of a 50,000 women protest against nuclear weapons in 1961, has passed away. In Egypt, protesters are calling for a million person march...
View ArticleQuick Hit: Anti-gay bill not on agenda in Uganda Parliament today
The reviling anti-gay bill introduced in 2009 and debated last Friday appears to not be on the agenda in Parliament today in Uganda, where it had been slated for debate. Some speculate it is because...
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What We Missed
If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary. – Chicago Defender (November 28, 1962) It’s Malcolm X’s birthday. He would have turned 86 if he were alive today. Is...
View ArticleQuick hit: New Nigerian law would criminalize merely supporting gays and...
Earlier this year, the Ugandan parliament re-opened debate on its now internationally infamous “Kill the Gays” bill. Now, we can add Nigeria to the list of countries proposing to ban being gay. The...
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Ugandan LGBTQ org sues U.S. evangelist for inciting persecution
A Ugandan LGBTQ rights group has filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against a Massachusetts-based evangelist, Scott Lively, for violating international law by inciting the persecution of gay men and...
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Desmond Tutu writes in protest of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bills
Photo: Wikimedia Commons Yesterday South African anti-apartheid activist and former archbishop Desmond Tutu wrote an op-ed urging members of the Uganda parliament to reject the Anti-Homosexuality Bill....
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Weekly Feminist Reader
Egyptian cartoonist Doaa Eladl publishes a controversial cartoon criticizing FGC. The North Dakota Senate has approved a ban on abortions after six-weeks of pregnancy, the most restrictive in the...
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U.S. religious leader linked to Uganda’s Kill the Gays bill is sued for committing a crime against humanity. Great work Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG)....
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Ann’s gender-reversed parody: A response to Emily Yoffe. Breast cancer stigmas in Uganda. “When does an Academic become a Whore?” Spike Jonze and Her: Who are we writing out of the future? Apparently,...
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Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet
Uganda passed a bill mandating life imprisonment for “aggravated homosexuality.” The Salvation Army needs to apologize. A historical perspective on the systematic devaluing of young black women....
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