It's really f#@%ing time I grow up and get my shit in order.
In other news! Went to the Sex Workers Art Show at VCU and ya'll WM kids are in for a great time!
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I need to sort out a paper I'm working on and I wanted to update, therefore I multitask:
WOMEN, WAR, AND THE FUTURE
-State of Iraq pre-war v. Current situations faced by Iraqi women
*Iraq (CODEPINK Report)
Iraqi Women Under Siege by Majorie P. Lasky
A Report by CODEPINK: Women for Peace and Global Exchange
(
http://www.codepinkalert.org/downloads/IraqiWomenReport.pdf)
*(En)gendering the War on Terror: War stories and Camouflaged Politics
*The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in na New Age of Empire
INTERNATIONAL HEALING THROUGH ACTIVISM AND COALITION
-Necessity of Women's Rights as Human Rights
*Okin--"Feminism, Women's Human Rights, and Cultural Differences"
*Beijing Declaration
*Millennium Development Goals
-The Problem on Nationalism in creating an "International sisterhood of women"
*Narayan--"Contesting Cultures"
-Specific coalitions
THE FUTURE AND THE GIRL CHILD
*The United NationsFourth World Conference on Women
Beijing, China - September 1995
PLATFORM FOR ACTION: The Girl-child Diagnosis
(
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/girl.htm#diagnosis)
-Following Through on Promises to Iraqi Women and the Girl Child
*Winning the Peace Conference Report: Women's Role in Post-Conflict Iraq
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
(
http://www.huntalternatives.org/download/60_winning_the_peace_conference_report_women_s_role_in_post_conflict_iraq.pdf)
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While googling info for the paper I came across thread from 2004 on "Labor Law Talk" about a 13 yo Iraqi girl who was raped by an American soldier:
http://www.laborlawtalk.com/showthread.php?t=72319 ...hmmmm*weighs*...humanity v. eradicating the earth of those I don't agree with...
Sadly, the second would bring me down to their level and I can't have that
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Time to bang out a semi-coherent proposal and pass out
G'NIGHT!