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Here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so, but not had time to post about.
If you have a link or comment that doesn’t fit anywhere else and would like to share it, feel free to drop it in the comments here.
- Breastfeeding: Forced feeding (The Independent)
- U.S. Students Design Ultrasound for Ugandan Midwives (Women’s eNews)
- Women Filling Up Coding Workshops (Jezebel)
- Pink Nipples: The Preference for “White” Bodies [NSFW] (Sociological Images)
- Hey You Men Who Yell “Nice Tits”: STFU (Wired Science)
- Domestic violence: women’s charities face 100% funding cuts (The Guardian – Society)
- Can a Man Be A Feminist? … and Why That Question Is Relevant Today (AlterNet)
- On TV, The Lesbians Are All Right… As Long As They’re Pregnant (AlterNet)
- So why is it all right for women to be sexist about MEN? (Daily Mail – Giles Coren)
- Butwhataboutthemen? (Enemies of Reason – Anton Vowl)
- Sandi Toksvig’s top 10 unsung heroines (The Guardian – Books)
- Introduction to the “Women and Peacebuilding in the Middle East” series (Gender Across Borders)
- What next? Baby Botox? (Boston Herald)
- Girls To The Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Because grrrls like to read)
- New UN Women Logo Unveiled (UN Women)
- Avaaz petition to call on South African president Zuma to condemn ‘corrective rape’ of lesbians and criminalise hate crimes (Avaaz)
- UK rules leaves foreign spouse visa holders vulnerable (Law Society Gazette)
- The Girl Store Wants You To “Buy A Girl Her Life Back” (Jezebel)
- Women in Hijab protest discrimination (The Nation)
- Halo: Reach writer – “We’re not serving half our audience” (Border House)
- David Kato Rest In Peace my friend (Black Looks)
- Why is it wrong to protect gay children? (The Independent – Johann Hari)
- Women of Egypt (Facebook) – mirrored at Democratic Underground)
- Women of Tunisia (Le Monde)
- Generation Y women losing ‘female’ skills such as cooking, ironing and sewing (Sunday Mail Australia)
- Andy Gray and Richard Keys have finally met their Waterloo. I’m glad (The Guardian Comment Is Free – David Mitchell)
- Women Are a Substantial Part of Egyptian Protests (Slate/XX)
- Women on the front lines in Egypt (My Own Private Guantanamo)
- Egypt Revolution: The Purity Protests (Newsweek)
- Why Norway deported its ‘Norwegian of the year’ (BBC News – Europe)
- Mail-order bride business sets up shop in the Emirates (The National)
- Police use CS spray on tax protesters (The Guardian)
- Human Rights Education Association – Distance Learning Programme (via TGEU listserv)
- Paramount Pictures: Top-Billed Actors By Gender And Ethnicity (Art Pixie)
This week’s closing video is “Take The Hit” by Mutamassik. From the Dangerous Minds website:
Mutamassik (meaning “stronghold” and “tenacity” in Arabic) is the nom de tune of Giulia Lolli, a half-Italian/half-Egyptian composer and DJ with a background that’s reflected in her splintered internationalist musical style.
Lolli has described her music as “Sa’aidi Hardcore & Baladi Breakbeats: Egyptian & Afro-Asiatic Roots mixed with the head-nod of hip-hop & the bass and syncopation of hardstep.”
“Take The Hit” is from Mutamassik’s 13-track album, “That Which Death Cannot Destroy”, which is available as a free download from Rough Americana via this direct link. [Thanks Mona!]
