Links roundup around the IMF chief's sexual assault of an immigrant worker in NY, including how IMF policies have enabled violence against women on a mass scale in poor countries.

1. Deportation fears force immigrant women to be mute on sexual abuse, harassment at work
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=184726

2. The IMF:  ( Read more... )

I've been reading up on intersectionality critiques of slutwalk lately. There is also a critique up ("Slutwalk vs. Ho Strolls") from Crunk Feminist Collective referring to racialized historical conceptions of "purity" and "chastity", black women's struggles against words like bitch, ho, etc and the politics of reclamation in LJ debunkingwhite.

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