Blog posts by Josephine Tsui: 2012
Rema Begum jumped to her death after western lifestyle revealed
by Josephine Tsui // 17 December 2012, 12:02
On September 4th 2012, Begum went to Coq d'Argent and ordered a glass of wine. At about 6:30pm, she put down her handbag and glass, and climbed over the edge to fall eight storeys. A post-mortem revealed she was...
New review: Bound to reality
by Josephine Tsui // 9 December 2012, 23:45
Bound to You follows Nichi Hodgson's journey to become a professional dominatrix, re-writing 50 Shades of Grey with a dose of reality and gender politics, says Josephine Tsui
Do women avoid salary negotiations?
by Josephine Tsui // 27 November 2012, 14:51
The National Bureau of Economic Research published a paper on salary negotiations
Weekly round-up and open thread
by Josephine Tsui // 22 October 2012, 20:31
Weekly roundup of threads of which we still thought interesting but didn't make it to our blog. Feel free to post any links that you feel deserves attention.
Binders full of Women - the US presidential debates
by Josephine Tsui // 17 October 2012, 13:42
"In what new ways do you plan to rectify the inequalities in the work place, specifically regarding females making only 72% of what their male counterparts earned."
Nominations open for the 2012 True Honour Award
by Josephine Tsui // 16 September 2012, 19:32
Nominations open for the 2012 True Honour Award
Weekly round-up and open thread - week of July 23rd 2012
by Josephine Tsui // 23 July 2012, 22:05
Weekly roundup of threads of which we still thought interesting but didn't make it to our blog. Feel free to post any links that you feel deserves attention.
Contraceptives summit; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
by Josephine Tsui // 11 July 2012, 10:33
Globally the world is celebrating the contraceptives summit. Donors, health ministers, charities and non governmental organisations will be coming together today in London and New York to discuss about the availability of contraceptives for men and women. Further, Andrew...
Guest bloggers for May
by Josephine Tsui // 2 May 2012, 22:28
Heya lovely F-worders! We've got a double showing for you this month in terms of guest bloggers. First we have Julian Norman. Julian is a lawyer, a feminist, an activist, an armchair politician and aspiring mad cat woman. She...
AWID 12th forum: The balance between religiousness and women's rights
by Josephine Tsui // 21 April 2012, 13:36
I'm attending the Association of Women's Rights in Development conference in Turkey. I'm blogging my thoughts here at the F-word. I had wanted to write about each day's reflection, but many of these topics run every day and my...
AWID 12th forum 2012
by Josephine Tsui // 20 April 2012, 12:05
I'm currently at the Association of Women's Rights in Development's (AWID) 12th international forum on women's rights and development. AWID is one of the few international feminist organisations other than the YWCA, and the International Girl Guides Association. The...
Honk your horn if you love Ashley Judd's message
by Josephine Tsui // 10 April 2012, 23:21
If you've been asleep or your only feminist readings are through the F-word, you may have notice some feminista loving to Ashley Judd through her article basically scraping her critics across coals at The Daily Beast. Her critics have...
Weekly roundup and open thread
by Josephine Tsui // 26 March 2012, 16:45
Heya folks! It's our weekly roundup of posts we haven't blogged about. Feel free to add some more in the comments sections. As usual, these do nor represent the F-word's opinions. 1. Impact of austerity on women (Fawcett Society)...
Ramblings of a professional feminist
by Josephine Tsui // 9 March 2012, 17:56
However, the whole POINT of my industry is that there are systems that are engineered so that certain always people always win and certain types of people always lose.

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