Here’s this week’s open thread and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so, but not had the time or capacity 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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- From the Guardian, Afghan girl, 15, tortured by in-laws for resisting prostitution
- From Skepchick, 13 Myths and Misconceptions about Trans Women: Part One
- Fat Hatred Kills: Resolution Season from this ain’t livin’
- More from the Guardian, Tesco denies rethink on backing for gay pride festival
- There’s a petition to have a Sexual Assault Referral Centre in every town and city in the country
- At Happy Bodies, The Sexualization of Female Sports Figures
- Broken Rainbow are a domestic violence charity, and they are looking for a transgender worker
- From Polytical, Why (my) Polyamory is Feminist
- Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian reports on Tory feminists: the true blue sisterhood. The Guardian also ask if Margaret Thatcher was a feminist icon.
- A group of women in Lincolnshire, aware of the lack of a Rape Crisis centre, are setting one up themselves, from BBC News Lincolnshire.
- Rise and Decolonize – PDX Rings in 2012, and Salsa and Sexism: Are You Mouthing Misogyny?, both from Racialicious
- From The Jane Dough, UK Town Makes Even Street Signs Gender Neutral and Number Of Female Political Candidates Jumps By 2/3 In Brazil
- It’s Bigger Than Your Womanhood from The Transadvocate
- From the Women’s Media Center, Occupying the Occupy Movement
- Advocate.com report that the Suicide Rate for Trans Women Denied Implants Alarming
- Cathy Newman for Channel 4 factchecks the boom and bust of cosmetic surgery in the UK
- Dean Atta, on Soundcloud, with I Am Nobody’s Nigger
- Jean Hannah Edelstein tries to help out Stephen Hawking with his mystification about women
- More from the Guardian, Jamaica will become a republic, new prime minister vows, and news that PIP breast implants can be removed for free on the NHS
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