Awareness, Feminism | Posted by Sarah F on 10/26/2009

Feminist Action Can Save Lives

Living as a white teenage feminist in America, surrounded by so many other white teenage feminists, it’s so easy to forget that feminism is so much more than just you and me. It’s easy to forget that that there are several teenagers out there just like us who are less fortunate, and whose daily terrors are more than we could begin to fathom. As I went through my daily binge of Jezebel articles, I found an example of those terrors.

Just little while ago, ABC Australia ran a documentary by Sally Sara entitled “Bangladesh: A Brave Face”, following the horror stories of women and children across the capital of Dhaka who have been attacked with acid as a result of sexism. Some of these women included are guilty of stating …

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