Four men in South Africa have been sentenced for the murder of a 19-year-old lesbian woman. She was stabbed and stoned to death in 2006. The court found that the girl was targeted due to her sexual orientation. Cases like this sadly are not uncommon in South Africa. The Human Rights Watch claimed that ...
Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar, a Saudi woman, was beheaded this week for practicing witchcraft and sorcery. The evidence against her was a book on the subject, a number of veils, and bottle filled with a liquid “used for sorcery.” She also worked as a healer. And according to Amnesty International, these aren’t even official crimes ...
David Kato was murdered in January this year in what was a controversial case. He was an active gay rights activist in Uganda, a country where homosexuality is illegal and where a bill is waiting to be decided on that will give the death penalty for being gay or for having HIV. Other activists claimed ...
Uganda’s shameful anti-gay bill may be delayed, but it is certainly not dead. The bill was due to be debated in a parliamentary sitting on Wednesday, but was mysteriously removed from the order paper. It has been predicted parliament will hold an extraordinary session on Friday to deal with the bill, but this is yet ...
A new bill waiting for approval holds that a miscarriage is murder, and that mothers who can’t reach full term should face the death penalty. It’s a fact that for every pregnancy there is a chance of miscarriage and these numbers are probably higher than you think. It’s also true that for a lot ...
In many countries in the world homosexual people face discrimination. I’m not talking about simple name calling and hate bashing, but time in jail and sometimes the death penalty. What can we do to help these people in countries like the UK? And should we help them? The UK’s highest court is currently being challenged by ...
If you are gay in Uganda you go to jail. This is outrageous, but not such a surprise; many countries have these kinds of laws. The difference in Uganda is that they are trying to pass a law that would kill those with HIV by the death penalty. The UK, who recently passed its equality laws, ...
Worried that the disease will not kill them fast enough, a law is making it’s way through Uganda’s parliament that proposes executing gay people who are HIV positive. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 also provides life imprisonment for those who participate in gay sex. Someone clearly misread the World AIDS day information pack. The “aggravated homosexuality” ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
