I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dear Women,

Our next meeting will look at the topic of women and the justice sytem. We’ll explore some of the stats around women’s engagement with the police, the law, and prisons, as well as interrogate the ways in which the system is an expression of patriarchy.

Hope you can join us 🙂

Yours in Sisterhood,

The Women of WAAC.

SEXISM, MISOGYNY, HARASSMENT, PATRIARCHY, GENERAL ICKINESS

• Google, siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove widely-criticized government app which lets men track women and control their travel
• White Ribbon has ended up selling something that stinks: ‘Cheese for change’
• Transgender suspects able to ‘skew’ crime statistics if women are recorded as having committed offences perpetrated by men
• Geoffrey Rush’s victory in his defamation case could have a chilling effect on the #MeToo movement
• Vatican women editors resign from women’s magazine
• A precarious place: older women, housing insecurity & homelessness
• Women are 23 per cent less likely to have internet access due to cultural and economic restrictions

PORNOGRAPHY

• Porn actresses accuse powerful industry agent of fraud, sex abuse
• Porn has wide-ranging ramifications — we need to do something before it’s too late
• Man sentenced for stalking women online, threatening them, posting their contact information to porn sites, and adding pictures of their faces to pornographic images
• Adults only: the battle to keep online pornography from Britain’s children

PROSTITUTION, TRAFFICKING & EXPLOITATION

• Amsterdam bans ‘disrespectful’ red-light district tours as of 2020
• Good riddance to Amsterdam’s disgraceful red-light district tours by Julie Bindel (so read it)
• Industry braces for fight as legal brothels in Nevada come under scrutiny
• Underage prostitution is in such high demand in Quebec City that people are moving there just to exploit minors
• ‘Do you ever think about me?’: the children sex tourists leave behind
• A shortage of women in China has led to the trafficking of ‘brides’ from Myanmar, says a report
• Women making clothes for west face sexual abuse
• Calgary teacher who preyed on dozens of underage girls pleads guilty to 17 sex offences

MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS

• A new Australian government program encourages women in abusive relationships to stay with their abusers and attend family counseling
• Pakistan Asma Aziz: Wife who had ‘head shaved for refusing to dance’
• Milwaukee toddler Noelani Robinson’s short life ends in a Minnesota ditch
• Women in Honduras flee to escape domestic violence and gang-motivated femicide, worsened by mocking police responses
• Police officers who fined stalking victim before she was murdered face disciplinary action
• Mark Addis, who threatened to kill his former partner, changed his name to Melissa, and is now allowed access to women’s hostels
• ‘We see it & can’t always help’: Why doctors are campaigning against violence towards women

NEW IN THE WAAC LIBRARY

• Exploring the implications of child sex dolls, Australian Institute of Criminology (2019)
• The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism, Catherine Rottenberg (2018)