The theme for 2025 International Women’s Day is “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” The emphasis on the word “ALL” immediately brings to mind the inclusion of women who are marginalized, disappeared, or otherwise deprived of “Rights, Equality, and Empowerment.” It’s thus a perfect day (but certainly not the only day) to remember Peng Shuai, the disappeared … Continue reading Missing Peng Shuai, No. 4 (3/8/25)
Feminism & Women’s Rights
“Targeted Oppression of Women in China’s Genocide in East Turkistan,” Panelist for Discussion hosted by UHRP and WUC (March 8, 2022)
Missing Peng Shuai 彭帅 (No. 1)
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” –– Milan Kundera Welcome to the first installment of what will be a series of occasional posts about the unfree and silenced Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. Despite the rhetorical pleas of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and its CEO and Chair, Steve Simon, that Peng … Continue reading Missing Peng Shuai 彭帅 (No. 1)
Uyghur Human Rights Project, “Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriages in East Turkistan” (11/16/22)
By Andréa J. Worden, Nuzigum Setiwaldi, Dr. Elise Anderson, Dr. Henryk Szadziewski, Louisa Greve, and Ben Carrdus https://uhrp.org/report/forced-marriage-of-uyghur-women/
Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe: The Ongoing Peng Shuai Situation (Nov. 1, 2022)
On this International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances – #FreePengShuai
“We must not stay silent” (Serena Williams via Twitter 11/18/21) August 30 is the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. It also happens to be the second day of the 2022 US Open. Tennis fans and players, along with human rights supporters everywhere, should continue to ask “Where is Peng Shuai?” and call for her … Continue reading On this International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances – #FreePengShuai
Where is Peng Shuai, and Where Will the Hologic WTA Tour Go in October in Place of China?
By Andréa Worden, March 29, 2022 Originally published on the China Change website In sharp contrast with the beginning of the 2022 tennis season, we haven’t heard much from players or fans with respect to Peng Shuai’s plight. The “Where is Peng Shuai?” t-shirt campaign at the Australian Open in January, which drew global attention … Continue reading Where is Peng Shuai, and Where Will the Hologic WTA Tour Go in October in Place of China?
Holding Court with Patrick McEnroe (Dec. 16, 2021)
Human rights advocate Andréa Worden talks about the Peng Shuai situation with Patrick on Holding Court (12/16/2021) https://www.buzzsprout.com/989119/9736445
[Andréa] Worden: Sexual assault – then and now
Originally published by the Yale Daily News (10/3/2018): https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/10/03/worden-sexual-assault-then-and-now/ The controversy surrounding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s ’87 LAW ’90 nomination to the Supreme Court prompted me to dig through a long-neglected box of papers from my time at Yale in the mid-1980s. In January 1985, I arrived on campus as a transfer student and soon became … Continue reading [Andréa] Worden: Sexual assault – then and now
Who Are the Young Women Behind the ‘#MeToo in China’ Campaign? An Organizer Explains
Xiao Meili, March 27, 2018 This translation originally appeared on China Change (3/27/2018), available here: https://chinachange.org/2018/03/27/who-are-the-young-women-behind-the-metoo-in-china-campaign-an-organizer-explains/ Zheng Churan (郑楚然) and Xiao Meili (肖美丽), right, are two Guangzhou-based feminist activists. Photo: @LetaHong January 2018 was a special month for the Chinese feminist movement. On January 1, Luo Xixi (罗茜茜) released an open letter –– using her real … Continue reading Who Are the Young Women Behind the ‘#MeToo in China’ Campaign? An Organizer Explains
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