Through the Air

Seoul, South Korea: Participants show their support for the Me Too movement during a rally for female workers by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. Photo: Yonhap/EPA.

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi’s Wife

Ankara, Turkey: Demonstrators display painted hands during a protest against a proposal that would have allowed sentencing in cases of sexual abuse to be indefinitely postponed if the perpetrator married the victim. Photo: Umit Bektas/Reuters.

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

Lima, Peru: People take part in a protest against violence against women. Photo: Guadalupe Pardo/Reuters.

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).

The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Images by photographer Márcio Freitas stand on Copacabana beach along with 420 pairs of underwear in the sand as part of a protest against violence towards women. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images.