Blog posts by Suswati Basu: 2010

First anti-feminism meeting takes place in Switzerland

by Suswati Basu // 23 November 2010, 23:17

Tags: MRAs

I have heard of everything now. In a secret Swiss location, 150 male activists gathered to hold the first ever “international antifeminism meeting”. SwissInfo.ch reports that, labelling themselves as “peacekeepers”, the Swiss based group IGAF (Interessengemeinschaft Antifeminismus) denounce feminist social...

Giving porn its own domain

by Suswati Basu // 14 July 2010, 10:12

Tags: porn

Stuart Lawley, Internet entrepreneur, has won the right to start selling registrations to a new domain devoted to pornographic content, .xxx. Currently, there are 7 million adult domains and as Lawley continues to sell another half a million, revenues of...

Dr Mohini Giri, India’s leading woman’s activist is determined to see a shift within the treatment of widows. “India being a patriarchal society, the women is discriminated at her birth itself. Hence, when she loses her husband and becomes a...

Reclaiming The F-Word

Founder of The F-Word, Catherine Redfern, has co-authored a new book with Kristin Aune. Find out more at the Reclaiming The F-Word website.

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