Ms Informed Newsletter | Alice Schwarzer, Boobs, and Germany's Feminist Foreign Policy
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Shownotes
DW on the Ukraine Peace Rally, Berlin
What Alice Schwazer said at this rally:
Tagespiegel on Sahra Wagenknecht’s similar blasé views on rape in wartime
Germany’s new Feminist Foreign Policy outline in full
The Conversation on the uneasiness of Feminist Foreign Policies and Pacifism
Alice Schwarzer on Alice Schwarzer
ZDF on Alice Schwarzer
ND on Alice Schwarzer
DW on Alice Schwarzer and the Cologne attacks
Taz on Alice Schwarzer and Privilege
Spiegel on Alice Schwarzer and tax evasion
Who the fuck is Alice Podcast by SZ
CNN on topless women being allowed in Berlin’s public pools
This week’s distraction
This week’s distraction is the earthquakes in Ecuador and Peru. At least 16 people are dead after a an earthquake of 6.8 magnitude shook an area 50 miles south of Ecuador’s second city, Guayaquil. The earthquake also trapped many others under rubble, sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines.
Read more in the guardian here
This week Madhvi saw
This week Madhvi saw some great novelists and poets reading and discussing their work at the British Council Literature Seminar here in Berlin. Writers included Bernadine Evaristo, Kit de Waal, and Daljit Nagra. Read her thoughts about the event and get links to see the readings on YouTube here.
This week Rina read
This week Rina started reading “Replace me” by Amber Husain . A look at our anxieties about being replaced. We all know the feeling.
This week’s inspiration
This week’s inspiration is the poet, spoken word artist and activist Joelle Taylor who was in Berlin for the British Council Literature Festival.
If you buy one book of poetry this year, let it be C+nto.
Watch her read from it, and discuss it below, and follow her on Instagram here.
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