Here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed but not had time to post about.
If you have a link or comment that doesn’t fit anywhere else, feel free to drop it in the comments here.
- More on the Eminem/Rihanna video (Tales Of A Bad Feminist)
- Feminism and Social Justice (Questioning Transphobia)
- Bessie Coleman, Queen of the Skies Bessie Coleman was the first black woman to hold an international pilot’s license. (Bitch Magazine)
- Women Airforce Service Pilots in WWII A series of three videos – the others are here and here (YouTube)
- Jerusalem rail firm planning to segregate carriages along gender lines (The Guardian)
- Chick lit is no longer chick lit – Jane Smiley, book reviewer at NY Times (NPR)
- Shotgun Seamstress No 2 – “A zine by and for Black punks, queers, misfits, feminists, artists/musicians, weirdos and the people who support them”. (Kathleen’s Blog)
- Disabled are socially excluded says Scope survey (BBC News/Education)
- How Native women built the Tribal Law and Order Act (Racialicious)
- Where are the butch intellectuals? (The Scavenger)
- Woman refuses to sign pre-consent for c-section, child put in care for three years (change.org)
- Study shows women, black people given inadequate pain medication in the US (The Detroit News)
- Why I help teenagers get secret abortions (The Scavenger)
- The Feminist Poster Project archives and shares feminist posters, postcards and stickers for you to print and paste. It offers a space for inspiration and a network for feminist poster artists.
- Feminism Before Stalinism: Women in Soviet Art (ERR News)
- Football, cars, women, lions(?)… The “real man’s” soft drink (My Fault, I’m Female)
- Go Where? Sex, Gender and Toilets (Sociological Images)
- Now just one man aged under 25 works in a state nursery school (The Independent)
- Greater Risk for Self-Harm in Young Black Women (PsychCentral)
- ‘I write a nasty book. And they want a girly cover on it’ – Lionel Shriver (Guardian CiF)
- ‘Rise in female genital mutilation’ in London (BBC News)
- Race and street harassment in North London (Stop Street Harassment!)
- Time to stop child marriages (Stop honour killings!)
- Monogamy vs. polyamory – an asexual perspective (Rabbit Write)
And I believe I shall break with tradition and finish this round-up with a video because, well, who needs a reason? :)
So, keeping the conceptual link to Kathleen Hanna, here’s Le Tigre with some sound advice :)