Book bans increased by 33% in the 2022-23 academic school year in the United States with 3,362 cases of book bans as compared to 2,532 cases in the previous year. A book ban is defined as any action that restricts access to or removes a book from classrooms and libraries, whether permanently or temporarily while … Read more
Facebook is one of the world’s largest virtual communities and plays host to a wide array of services and people from across the world. This is, of course, a for-profit company focused on constant growth and two years ago in a leak from inside the company we learned at what cost they would pursue this … Read more
In a recent study, a couple of scholars are sharing ways that the gender gap still persists in the United States today. In this article, they explore the ways that gender is impacting the Airbnb hosts as the U.S. Census Bureau reported that female Airbnb hosts make 25% less each yer than male Airbnb hosts … Read more
The fight for women’s rights is an ongoing battle worldwide. No place in the world can boast of having accomplished gender equality. There are times when progress accomplished over many years has been undone in a matter of months. Such are the circumstances for women in Afghanistan whose rights have been diminished following the Taliban … Read more
In class, we read about the increased state of surveillance under Ben Ali in Tunisia, discussing how increased surveillance impacts individual freedom and could possibly be categorized as unfreedom (re: Parrenas’ Unfree). In this blog post, I’ll discuss the Taliban’s implementation of surveillance across Afghanistan. In 2021, the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, ending a twenty-year … Read more
Since 2003, the Iraq government has continuously promoted “anti-gender” campaigns, sentiments, and policies. The most recent evidence of this promotion is an official instruction that bans the use of the term “gender” in all public communications as well as recommends replacing the word “homosexuality” with “sexual deviance”. Iraqi feminist activists have been insulted in the … Read more
This article talks about how the migrant workers who still are stuck in Qatar and are still getting mistreated have no way of the situation improving. The workers are still waiting for their money, and some are stuck in Qatar to be able to get their benefits. Others lose out on their benefits because they … Read more
Throughout reading Parrenas’ Unfree, it can be easy to “other” the domestic workers in the book, throwing cultural relativism to the side and using neoliberal ideals to make it a “them” problem. In reality, implementation of labor standards that provide a safe and stable work environment when it comes to job opportunities, pay, work hours, … Read more
While reading the book UnFree, we have been engaging in conversations and discussions on labor laws and ethical environments for the workforce and how unregulated systems have continuously created unsafe spaces for domestic workers in the UAE. These conversations have had a historical past with the popular topic that is touched on in grade schools … Read more
It has been reported in a recent Guardian article that Philippine job agencies have cheated women out of money and pushed them into crippling debt. The individuals who have fallen victim to these actions are women applying for work overseas, commonly domestic workers. The agencies charged these women large illegal fees, such as medical fees and training fees, … Read more