To publicize National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (which is tomorrow, March 10th), two women, Karyn of The Fabulous Giver and Luvvie of Awesomely Luvvie, came up with the idea of the Red Pump Project. The concept is simple: Rock the Red Pump on your blog to represent the strength and courage of women [...]

These videos are part of the “Because I Am a Girl” Campaign.

From Canada:

Go to “Because I Am A Girl” Plan USA to learn more, do more, donate and make your voice heard.
Also check out Beaut.ie (The Irish Beauty Blog) for more information.
Thanks to the In the Sisterhood blog for directing me to this campaign.
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I have rarely encountered such an antagonistic interviewer as Deborah Solomon, whose interview with Eve Ensler was published on January 21st in the New York Times Magazine. The subject of the interview was Ensler’s new project and book, which is described as follows in an email I received from vday.org:
Eve’s newest work, I Am an [...]

I apologize for being preoccupied with other things this past week: my grandson’s visit, my husband’s birthday, the observance and celebration of Ramadan and my conversion to Islam. Just little things like that. I’m easing back in with this edition of my Tuesday Tidbits. This week I’m featuring Salon’s Broadsheet. There’s so much there, I [...]

Judy Berman writes about sex-segregated commuter trains in India at Salon’s Broadsheet.
At RH Reality Check, Eleanor Bader writes about anti-abortionists demonizing a breast cancer organization. So does Lynn Harris at Broadsheet.
Read about Scandinavia’s fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) here.
Read about Ada Lovelace on Wikipedia. She was not only the only legitimate child of the [...]