![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
A few articles.
A report by Amnesty International on the shocking (!) rate of death in childbirth in the US.
Apparently more than two woman a day die of pregnancy related causes... if this information is even accurate, which it might not be.
And those two woman? Are probably black. Black woman are four times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications than white woman, even though they aren't any more likely to suffer from complications such as hemorrhage.
I'm not actually shocked or surprised by this, of course.
Here's an article about the fight in Ethiopia to eliminate bride abduction. It's fascinating. (Also, it gave me nightmares. This article gets its very own trigger warning for its descriptions of rape.
Oh, and I have two quick posts on Jewish literature, particularly fantasy:
Click
Click
Apparently more than two woman a day die of pregnancy related causes... if this information is even accurate, which it might not be.
And those two woman? Are probably black. Black woman are four times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications than white woman, even though they aren't any more likely to suffer from complications such as hemorrhage.
I'm not actually shocked or surprised by this, of course.
Here's an article about the fight in Ethiopia to eliminate bride abduction. It's fascinating. (Also, it gave me nightmares. This article gets its very own trigger warning for its descriptions of rape.
Oh, and I have two quick posts on Jewish literature, particularly fantasy:
Click
Click
no subject
The bride abduction article is indeed sickening-- it is the complete dehumanization of women that terrifies me the most, the idea that it might not even occur to men that stealing a raping a woman was any different from catching a wild animal and branding it as part of your herd. How can our species be so fucked up?