Something is rotten in the state of California

Women post images online with messages such as “Judge Persky, you help more rape” after student given six-month sentence Chinese feminists are speaking out in support of a woman who was sexually assaulted by a former Stanford University swimmer, posting photographs denouncing the attack on social media. Images of Chinese women holding up messages of solidarity for the victim began circulating on Weibo, China’s Twitter, on Wednesday and are being gathered on the Facebook and Twitter pages of a group called Free Chinese Feminists. [Read more].

• Tom Phillips, Chinese feminists post selfies in solidarity with Stanford assault victim, The Guardian, June 10, 2016

Images taken from the Free Chinese Feminists campaign page. Photo: Free Chinese Feminists (Facebook).