I’m in Berlin for re:publica 2011, a conference I’ve been wanting to go to for at least two years and which I was invited to speak at this year. When organizer Markus Beckedahl contacted me in January to speak, he was excited about my September 2010 paper, Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere. Just a […]
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Exporting Feminism to Muslims?
A few lines from Jonah Goldberg’s latest opinion piece in the LA Times: Feminism as a “movement” in America is largely played out. The work here is mostly done. Even the fight for “pay equity” is an argument about statistics, lagging cultural indicators and the actual choices liberated women make Countless Islamist countries practice gender […]
Further update: This CNN article is essential reading, particularly this quote (emphasis is mine): “The page… began as a call for peaceful protest, even though it used a term that has been associated with violence in the past. In addition, the administrators initially removed comments that promoted violence,” the company statement said. “However, after the […]