Hi everyone
Here’s this week’s round-up of some of the bits around the internet we haven’t had a chance to blog about. As always, we’d love to hear about other interesting reading we missed – just add the links in the comments. Please note that a link here doesn’t imply endorsement or agreement, and some links may be triggering. [TW used to indicate trigger warning in some cases.]
- Women in the Sub-Culture of Surfing (Gender Across Borders)
- Stock photos of women looking remorseful after sex (vagendamag)
- The sector needs to better support its women, says Rowena Lewis (civil society)
- Kathryn Bolkovac: ‘They called me Xena: Warrior Princess’ (Telegraph)
- Egypt’s feminists prepare for a long battle (Al Jazeera English)
- Teenage Tibetan nun sets herself on fire in China (Guardian)
- Big companies accused of ‘tokenism’ over women on boards (Telegraph)
- The Children Act is an act of kindness: There’s no systematic bias against fathers in family courts, so no need for ministers to tinker (CiF)
- Uni Lad website closure highlights the trouble with male banter (Guardian)
- Morocco: ‘Gender at the Heart of New Moroccan Constitution’ (Women Living Under Muslim Laws)
- Call for help (inside housing)
- Feminist Action Cambridge takes our anti-objectification message to H&M (feminist action cambridge)
- UN welcomes charges against army colonel over mass rapes in Guinea (UN)
- Women’s prisons in desperate need of reform, says former governor (Guardian)
- Pop Smart: Why Pop? Something of a Column Manifesto (big distraction)
- Breast cancer is not a pink ribbon (scar project)
- Win for disabled sexual assault victims (morning quickie)
- How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide (village voice)
- The size-zero Botticellis: Artist Photoshops masterpieces to show changing perceptions of female beauty (Telegraph)
- Buffy’s choice: Joss Whedon gets political (Guardian)
- Gay ban guesthouse owners lose court appeal (Independent)
- Jezebel, it’s we that you are for (merrionsquare)
- Lego agrees to meeting after 50,000 denounce selling out girls (Change.org)
- Male sex workers are entitled to their human rights (pambazuka)
- Autistic woman banned from having sex in latest Court of Protection case (Telegraph)
- 7 February 1918 (mixosaurus)
- Early stage feminists: how to make your point (A Woman’s Writes)
- Unpacking the Fat: People Like Me (Big Liberty)
- Philippa on getting abuse for being disabled (CiF)
- real women (Filling a Much-Needed Void)
- Government policy and women’s issues – what areas need to be reviewed? (Guardian News Blog)
- How my rapist walked free (Guardian)
- Closure of Hooters ‘breastaurant’ is a welcome step for women (Sian Norris at Guardian Cif)
- Can we end rape as tool of war? (Gloria Steinem and Lauren Wolfe at CNN International)
- Smear on the head of the Royal College of GPs by Oliver Wright (ben goldacre)
- Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution: What makes a feminist icon? (woodsiegirlwrites)
- META Magazine, the first magazine by, for and about trans people (metamag)
Photo of a neon ‘open’ restaurant sign, by matthileo, shared under a Creative Commons License.
