It’s that time of the week again when we link to recent stories of feminist interest that we missed. Some of the items might get picked up by one of us in more detail later on but we won’t be able to do this with all of them so this open thread is the place to come if you want to discuss one of the items below or have more links to share.
- Carrie Dunn on the model and celebrity free October issue of Essentials (The Guardian)
- Forced Sterilization of HIV Positive Women Continues in Southern Africa (International Women’s Health Coalition)
- Interview with feminists in Belgium (Grassroots feminism)
- “More than 40% of domestic violence victims are male, report reveals” (The Guardian)
- Robert Fisk on honour killing (trigger warning for this) (The Independent)
- Lack of female role models “discouraging girls from IT” (Women in Technology)
- Police sergeant jailed for custody assault (The Guardian)
- A Reason to Believe in Feminism (The F-Bomb)
- Indian rape victims subjected to “finger test” (Salon)
- Photoshopping of Sophie Dahl (Jezebel)
- Teaching bell hooks in high school (Ms Magazine)
- Larry Flynt calls for equal rights for women then blames Gloria Steinem for the failure of the ERA to pass 35 years ago (Huffington post)
- Can your phone improve your taste in music? (GirlyGeekdom)
- “The REAL stuff white people like” (OKcupid blog)
- The best tennis player you’ve never heard of (Wired)
- Erasing Transphobia on Big Brother (Trans Youth Takes On World)
- Fat Hate (The Jaded Hippy)
- Are Lesbians Only For Porn? Google Instant Thinks So (gayrights.change.org)
- To veil or not to veil (hijabman)
- On victim-blaming (barnyardchorus)
- No apology from David Haye after ‘gang rape’ comment (The Guardian)
The rise of rape talk (The Guardian)
The rise of the rape joke (The Guardian)
- Google’s instant search works if you type in gay, but not for lesbian or bisexual (Carnalnation)
- Kira Cochrane interviews Kat Banyard (The Guardian)
- What is “birth rape”? (Jezebel)
Bad birth experiences aren’t rape (Amanda Marcotte at Slate)
(More on this topic in Amity Reed’s feature)
- The chair of the Mercury Prize has claimed that black British female artists are being ignored by the British public (BBC news)
Addendum:
Fiona’s blog: Facebook destroys the real girl (Rachel Simmons)
Over to you…
Picture by Jorge Balarezo, shared on a Creative Commons licence.