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.
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- South Africa killing of lesbian Nogwaza ‘a hate crime’ (BBC News)
- Takin’ it to the streets: Cripping street harassment (Bitch Magazine)
- Blogging Against Disablism Day: Street Harassment Edition (Stop Street Harassment)
- Abstinence-based education: why we don’t need a chastity crusade (Abortion Rights)
- Cyberstalking: A Growing Problem for Women (Gender Across Borders)
- It’s true – there are too few women presenting science on TV (Guardian Science)
- Filling the Gaps (Feministe)
- I’m not sexist but… (Tumblr)
- What Gen Y Women Want: Autonomy and Self-Direction (SHRM)
- Sex and the Fat Girl: Interview With “Fat Bitch!” Creator Erica Watson (Bitch Magazine)
- Anger grows (Disability Now)
- Turkey: Women Left Unprotected From Violence (Human Rights Watch)
- Cheerleader must compensate school that told her to clap ‘rapist’ (Independent)
- US judge says lesbians can be ‘cured’ by male soldiers (Pink News)
- Female Foreign Correspondents’ Code of Silence, Finally Broken (ProPublica)
- BiblioBitch: Kittatinny and the Legacy of Joanna Russ (Bitch Magazine)
- In aftermath of Lara Logan’s attack, CPJ learns more about journalists sexually assaulted on the job (Poynter)
- Saving the Second Sex or How Aid Fails Women: A Conversation with William Easterly (Gender Across Borders)
- Big Sex Little Death: Review (Dirty Laundry)
- When loathing feels normal, don’t buy it (Spilt Milk)
- We’ve got your back (Hollaback)
- Domestic violence courts to close (Law Gazette)
- Now is the time to deliver key pledges on sexual violence (Rape Crisis Scotland)
- The New Left and ‘Progressive’ Movement- Exploiting hardship caused by cuts and silencing those affected? (Lisa Ansell, Posterous)
- So the ‘Rape Workshop’ which our local police delivered today to the girls in my sixth form went very, very badly (After The Curtain)
- Stop US porn franchise ‘Girls Gone Wild’ from coming to the UK (Object)
- Peta’s new ‘Want My Body?’ poster views women as pieces of meat (Guardian Environment)
- Feminist porn faces hardcore critics (SMH Entertainment, Australia)
- Online Survey: Tattoo Culture and Gender Perception (SurveyMonkey)
- Slutwalk planned in Cardiff (Facebook)
- Plans for skimpy skirts for 2012 badminton get short shrift (London Evening Standard)
- Deaf Muslims: The women of Deaffinity (altmuslimah)
- Hilary Clinton Photoshopped out of Situation Room Photo (Jezebel)
- The State We’re In (80s remix) (Samira Ahmed)
This week’s closing video is the 2011 remake of A Deeper Understanding by Kate Bush:
Public domain image ‘The Earth seen from Apollo 17’ via Wikipedia