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EuropaUnión Europea,

It’s a strange moment to be an American feminist who cares deeply about women’s rights beyond her own country’s borders.

On one hand, there is so much to be heartened by: expansions of women’s rights in much of the world, feminist protests galvanizing women across continents, abortion rights on the rise, necessary attention paid to the particular price paid by women in conflict. And then there is our own country, one of the very few where abortion rights have been radically scaled back rather than expanded, where anti-feminist movements are quickly racking up (often unpopular) wins and broadening their efforts to wind back women’s progress and where a large chunk of the electorate is eager to put a notoriously sexist man found liable for sexual abuse back into the highest office in the land.…  Seguir leyendo »

Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales gave Spanish football star Jennifer Hermoso an unwanted kiss on the lips after the team's Women's World Cup final victory over England on Sunday.

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It’s a rule most of us learn as children: Keep your hands to yourself. And yet it seems that scores of men can’t quite follow it, even — perhaps especially? — when the whole world is watching.

The latest grabby guy is Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales, who gripped Spanish football player Jennifer Hermoso’s head during the team’s trophy ceremony and planted a kiss on her lips. Rubiales was, like everyone else at the ceremony, no doubt excited that the Spanish team had won the World Cup. But he’s the only one who used that moment to publicly violate a player.…  Seguir leyendo »

EuropaUnión Europea,

The people of Paris have spoken loud and clear: get electric scooters off of our streets.

Good. More cities should follow suit.

Over the past few years, electric scooters have been brought to Paris and dozens of other cities worldwide by various startups promising an environmentally-friendly individual transport option. What cities have gotten instead is chaos: scooters shooting down sidewalks at dangerous speeds or laying abandoned on pedestrian thoroughfares. Both riders and pedestrians have been injured and sometimes killed.

Scooters sound great in theory. In practice, they’re much more of a menace than a convenience.

The Paris vote was an overwhelming one, if one with very low turnout — only about 100,000 people voted, but nearly 90% of them cast their ballots in favor of a scooter ban, according to CNBC.…  Seguir leyendo »

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First things first: Despite Russia's aggression in Ukraine, and despite Russian posturing about nuclear weapons, it seems wildly unlikely that the current conflict will descend into a nuclear crisis. But that reality doesn't change the fact that this invasion, and Russian swagger about its nuclear capabilities, ratchets up tensions in an already-deadly situation -- and brings a renewed (if still slim) threat of nuclear war to a generation that has never experienced this particular (apocalyptic) fear.

"I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside", Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an address last week about his country's invasion of Ukraine.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAmérica,

As 2020 comes to a close, there's a bright spot at the tail end of a long, dark year: Argentina just made women's rights history.

On Wednesday, a majority of its Senate voted yes on a bill to legalize abortion up to 14 weeks into a pregnancy -- a significant liberalization of the current law, which generally prohibits the procedure, and only allows exceptions for rape and the pregnant woman's health. President Alberto Fernández has pledged to sign the bill into law, which will make Argentina the largest nation in Latin America to legalize abortion, and one of just a tiny handful of countries in the region where women are allowed to decide for themselves whether or not to continue a pregnancy.…  Seguir leyendo »

Mikie Sherrill celebrando en Nueva Jersey su elección a la Cámara de Representantes la noche del martes. Credit Demetrius Freeman para The New York Times

MundoAmérica, ,

Enorme participación. Una cantidad récord de mujeres que contendieron y que ganaron, algunas de ellas en victorias apretadas en las que derrotaron a la persona en el cargo y convirtieron distritos republicanos en demócratas. Mikie Sherrill, quien habló durante la campaña sobre su etapa como pilota naval y madre de cuatro hijos, ganó en Nueva Jersey. Elaine Luria y Abigail Spanberger ganaron en Virginia. Lauren Underwood ganó en Illinois. En la carrera por la gubernatura de Kansas, Laura Kelly venció a Kris Kobach, uno de los principales responsables en Estados Unidos de la supresión de votantes —una estrategia usada para modificar el resultado de una elección a través de desalentar o impedir el voto de ciertos grupos de personas—.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Cuando yo tenía más o menos 10 años, mi hermana menor y yo escuchamos durante un asado que mi papá charlaba con otro padre. “Ya sabes, creo que si fueran niños probablemente dejaría que jugaran un poco más lejos de la casa”, dijo mi padre de mentalidad feminista, en un momento de franqueza de padre a padre. Mi hermana y yo estábamos furiosas; cuando llegamos a casa, lo increpamos: ¿cómo se atrevía a sugerir que nos trataría distinto si fuéramos niños?

Como muchas milenials de clase media, mi hermana y yo encarnábamos un nuevo modelo de “niña buena”: bien portadas, con buenas notas para ir a la universidad, deportistas, con un repertorio completo de actividades extracurriculares y con la esperanza (por parte de nuestros padres y de nosotras mismas) de que nos dirigíamos hacia una carrera exitosa.…  Seguir leyendo »

The Pope’s Unforgiving Message of Forgiveness on Abortion

InternacionalIglesia Católica

Pope Francis announced this month that for a year, beginning in December, women who had terminated pregnancies could be granted forgiveness from Roman Catholic priests, instead of facing potential excommunication for their sins. It sounds like a step in the right direction: Mercy for women who have had abortions certainly seems preferable to condemnation.

But mercy may actually be worse. While the pope’s announcement has been hailed as evidence of the church’s new, softer approach, it’s actually the latest example of the modern anti-abortion strategy: Portray women as victims who need to be protected from themselves with laws that restrict abortion rights.…  Seguir leyendo »