Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

elenia28 asked me about these seven ( Read more... )

Iraq Prisoner Amnesty To Exclude Gays ( Read more... )

Jamie Leigh Jones, the woman who ( keep reading, unless you have triggers... )

(mirrored from Feministing)

Women activists in Saudi Arabia are protesting the recent ruling that sentenced a gang-rape victim to 200 lashes and six months in jail for being in a car with a man who wasn't her relative.Activist Wajiha al-Hweider said "[T]here is injustice against women in courts. It is a bitter situation that Saudi women have to ( Read more... )

Three Iraq safe houses forced to close ( Read more... )

A Message from Iraqi LGBT - an organization based in the UK
Gay People in Iraq Suffering Intense PersecutionSince the US invasion of Iraq, Gay people in Iraq have suffered particularly intense persecution. Violence against all the gay community has intensified sharply since late 2005, when Iraq's leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali ( Read more... )

I got a letter from Code Pink - please read this and act on it--

Dear Johanna,

Can you imagine being afraid to leave your home because of the very real threat of attack--whether by bomb or bullet or stone? This is a fear, a threat, Iraqi women have to live with every single day.

In April 2006, CODEPINK released Iraqi Women Under Siege, a ( Read more... )

Lesbian Palestinians Break Social Taboos ( Read more... )

I went a few nights ago, this is what I was about to do when I unexpectedly hurt my back, but went ahead and had a nice time anyway and saved the owies for afterward ( Read more... )

from pinknews.co.uk
Israel urged to secure gay Palestinian meeting27th March 2007 15:49 ( Read more... )