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Slightly Ashamed Self-Promotion Tuesday

(I know, I know, I’m hilarious.)

I have a new piece up at Global Comment called Floods in Australia… but what about the others? It’s about the disparity in the international media response around the floods in Queensland and those in South Africa, the Philippines and Brazil. I didn’t cover this in the piece because, when I thought it up, I didn’t know this was the case – yes, I know, quite fitting in with the premise of my piece – but there is also flooding in Sri Lanka. More than one million people have been displaced and at least twenty-three people have died.

Feministe guest blogger Queen Emily has just recently taken over as editor-in-chief at Global Comment, which was previously run by fellow Feministe guest bloggers Natalia Antonova and deputy editor Sarah Jaffe. So, Feministe readers, it should be quite your cup of tea. Head on over and check out a great progressive publication, do.

Also, a reminder that I’m busy talking women, books and feminist literary icons over at Bitch Magazine. I’ve got about a week and a half left of writing Iconography, and I’ve been loving it.


4 thoughts on Slightly Ashamed Self-Promotion Tuesday

  1. Oh my gosh, I know! I sent my best wishes to a friend who lives in Brisbane, and expressed my fear for him and his family, and he responded that there isn’t much going on and that it’s not a big deal but that they are all freaking out about the extreme floods in Brazil and the Philippines. And I had to actually SEARCH with different key words to find what he was talking about!! I responded with a jab at American whites-only media. Anglophone BS.

  2. I think the biggest example of this is not a natural disaster but the Congo Wars of 1996-2003. According to wikipedia, 5.4 million people died in these wars which involved eight countries stretching from Libya to Zimbabwe, and yet even reasonably well informed people in the US have never heard of it.

  3. There are a lot of problems in Colombia, Venezuela and Panama due to flooding as well. I don´t live in the US and read other media, so I have no idea if this has been published there…

  4. Speaking of icons, Rosa Parks was not the simple seamstress with tired feet–
    She was a field investigator for the NAACP who traveled to small towns at great personal risk to help prosecute cases of gang rape of black women. The real horror of the segregated South is that there was no justice, no protection, until despair led to collective action
    From Despair to Courage

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