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. 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]
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.
- Women and the Cuts (What Glass Ceiling)
- Senator adds “Every Sperm is Sacred” amendment onto Oklahoma personhood bill (Feministing)
- 25 Extremely Upsetting Reactions To Chris Brown At The Grammys (Buzzfeed)
- Shock! Horror! A trans man has given birth (Guardian Cif)
- Love Me: The Cross-Cultural Manufacturing of Beauty (Brain Pickings)
- Student bra search case goes to NC Supreme Court (AP)
- Whitney Houston’s Death is Probably Not What You Think It Is (Susie Bright)
- “It’s Not Right”… On Whitney Houston, Black Women, and Loss (Queer Black Feminist)
- Alleged rape victim arrested in Ireland for refusal to testify (Guardian World)
- Any strategy for growth must include decent childcare for all (Guardian Cif)
- Will the ‘girl effect’ really help to combat poverty? (Guardian ‘Poverty matters’ blog)
- Slavery case girl tells court of abuse by Eccles couple (BBC News Manchester)
- Samira, the military and feminism! (Rebel With A Cause)
- I Won’t Buy My Little Pony Toy That Makes Smart Princess Shallow (news.change.org)
- Hugh Hefner’s son arrested for ‘assaulting Playmate girlfriend’ (Metro)
- What’s your perfect fitting top, skirt and dress on the highstreet? (Guardian Datablog)
- No Help for Kashmir’s Female Drug Addicts (IPS News)
- No Ethics Without Feminism (3:AM Magazine)
- Sexism in Chronic Pain Treatment (ABC News)
- David Cameron: Leading Tory Feminist? (Bright Green)
- Singer-composer Dory Previn dies (BBC Entertainment)
- The French Government Wants To Tone My Vagina (Slate)
- Can David Cameron be made to understand what women want? (Guardian Politics)
- Switcheroo (Sincerely Hana Photography)
- Mencap release an updated ‘Death by Indifference’ report 5 years on: 74 deaths and counting [PDF] (Mencap)
- PETA’s vegan sex ad shows it has tofu for brains (Guardian Cif)
- Women will compete in every sport on the Olympic Programme at the London 2012 Games (Olympic.org)
- 17 European Countries Force Transgender Sterilization (Map) (Mother Jones)
- Outing trans people (Lucy Melford)
- Breast implant NHS referrals issued to 2,860 women (Guardian World)
- Pubertal blockade safe for pediatric patients with gender identity disorder (Endocrine Today)
- The silicone breast implant scandal (Guardian Cif America)
- Call for Submissions: Living Women’s History (Feminist Activism)
- Women in Prison Job Vacancies (Women in Prison)
- 20 years of inaction after the x-case – Action on X launched (Workers Solidarity Movement)
- Battle of the balaclavas: the young feminists taking on Putin (Channel 4 World News Blog)
- South Africa mini-skirt march in protest over attacks (BBC News)
- How it Feels to Get Reviewed (secretdiaryofadublincallgirl)
- Curator’s Introduction to Social Fabric exhibition (YouTube)
- Ministry of Women Affairs Warns of Dangers Associated with Genital Mutilation (Tunisia Live)
- Why I’m selling my corset (sevenhelz)
- Labour looks to Denmark for childcare policy (Guardian Politics)
- Time for a revolution in the way we deal with rape (Guardian Cif)
- Virginia’s Proposed Ultrasound Law Is an Abomination (Slate)
- An Open Letter to Channel 4 (Pipopotamus)
- Men to protest return of the National Council for Women (Egypt Independent)
- Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags (Tooth and Claw)
- A big fat Romany open letter to Channel Four (Counterfire)
- You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face (View from the Couch)
This week’s closing video is All My Rage by Laura Marling:
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