It’s Monday – that means it’s time for The F-Word’s weekly link fest, when we link to recent stories of feminist interest that we didn’t get a chance to write about during the last seven days. We may end up writing about some of these stories in more detail, but not all of them! This is the place to come and discuss any of these items, or share other links.
- What your social network profile really says (BBC)
- Ofsted says schools using special needs too widely (BBC)
- Afghanistan’s dancing boys (BBC World Service, video)
- California sperm donor stalks lesbian mother (ABC)
- ‘Whore’ comment on Indian women writers can’t be ignored (Guardian)
- Roz Kaveney on why she won’t welcome the pope (Guardian)
- French Senate votes to ban full-face veils (Radio Free Europe)
- EU threatens France with legal action over Roma expulsions (Radio Free Europe)
- Breast screens for trans women stirs debate (Diagnostic Imaging)
- It had to happen: breasts in 3D (Time Healthland)
- Different generations, same riddle (Yahoo – video)
- The missing list of UK based feminist bloggers (aka The Great Ignored) (Cath Elliot)
- The price of love? Losing two of your closest friends (The Guardian)
- Times of India runs article asking “should a woman marry her rapist” (Jezebel)
- There among the roses: Octavia Hill (Feminist Memory)
- Gemma Atherton blasts sexist Hollywood (Yahoo)
- Goldman Sachs in sex discrimination case (Guardian)
- Men’s studies: an important addition to academia (Gender Across Borders)
- Sex trafficking gang offered to sell young virgins to wealthy Arabs (Guardian)
- Protest at fashion week over the appointment of a white woman as Essence’s fashion director (Jezebel)
- Small-scale palm oil production is women’s work too (IPS News)
- Elle Magazine tries to show us Gabourey Sidibe’s ‘lighter’ side (Racialicious)
- TV’s top showrunners (Women and Hollywood)
- Telling OTHER people’s stories (Black Looks)
- Free film-making classes for young women of colour in Glasgow (Digital Desperadoes)
- Fast fashion is a feminist issue (Ruth Rosselson)
- Citibank’s recommendations for the Ladeez (Shakesville)
- On the Ryan Commission (YouTube)
- Clybourne Park: The joke’s not funny if only middle-class white people laugh (Guardian)
- Less inequality, a popular choice (Touchstone)
- Gender neutral pronouns table (Transpride)
- Frank Field fail (Harry’s Place)
- Finding Glee in Dr Dre’s ‘Bitches Ain’t Shit’ (Sociological Images)
- The intense For Colored Girls trailer (Jezebel)
- India’s ailing MDG tied to 18th century cure (Women’s e-News)
- Still time to sign up for the launch of One World, Different Cultures: Women’s Voices from South Yorkshire (DEWA)
Photo by rot ist die farbe der hoffnung, shared on Flickr under a Creative Commons license