2019
#KuToo
Actor and writer Yumi Ishikawa started a petition against workplaces requiring women to wear high heels. The name plays on kutsu (shoes) and kutsū (pain).
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Short histories of 65 feminist movements, India and South Asia first. Each has a timeline, links to read more elsewhere, and books from our shelf where we have them. These are starting points, not the last word: tell us what is missing through the complaints box or a discussion thread.
2 movementsBodies and choice ×East Asia ×2010 to today ×
2019
Actor and writer Yumi Ishikawa started a petition against workplaces requiring women to wear high heels. The name plays on kutsu (shoes) and kutsū (pain).
2018 onwardStill going
After mass protests against hidden-camera crimes in 2018, young Korean women cut their hair short and destroyed their makeup ('Escape the Corset'). Some pledged the '4B' refusals: no dating, no sex, no marriage and no…