As I write, I am reading news reports of men harassing women in Cairo, women who assembled to celebrate International Women’s Day, women who protested alongside men to oust Hosni Mubarak.
As I write, I am hopeful about initiatives to help women and girls get educated all around the world.
I note tertiary education efforts too, like Women’s Education Worldwide.
And I think hard about the post over at Hook and Eye, a blog co-owned by Aimée Morrison (Waterloo English) and guest-blogged today by Shannon Dea (Waterloo Philosophy).
I feel like we need to act locally and think globally about feminism… a point I keep making to my own first year students still, relentlessly…
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