Hi all
Here’s this week’s round-up of some of the bits around the internet we haven’t had a chance to blog about. Please add links in the comments section if there’s anything you came across that you want to share too. Please note that a link here doesn’t imply endorsement or agreement, and some links may be triggering.
- Of chick charts, hen charts and other such women’s stories: Saba Dewan
- Owen Jones: The battle that men who aren’t sexist must fight (Independent, Opinion)
- International campaign to stop rape used as a weapon of war launches in Cartagena, Colombia
- Sex shop Ann Summers and Relate ought to be unlikely bedfellows (CiF)
- Shape & Situate: Posters of Inspirational European Women at Victoria Baths Fanzine Convention
- How offensive is the word ‘lunatic’? (BBC News)
- How the ‘perfect storm of cuts’ is shrinking one woman’s life choices (Guardian)
- No Children of Ours: Rochdale and conveyor belt grooming
- The woman who lives in a shed: how London landlords are cashing in (Guardian Society)
- Four more arrested over naming of Ched Evans rape victim (Daily Post, North Wales News)
- The Muslim women who are excelling at top-level sport (Guardian)
- Workfare comes to the NHS, as unpaid workers take the place of NHS staff (The Green Benches)
- Rise of the puritan classes
- Missing intersectionality in sex positive feminism: the unaddressed racism in porn (Tiger Beatdown)
- Women’s Health Mag Plans “Twitter Takeover” Olympic Issue (The Realtime Report)
- Vagina ‘Brightener’: Indian Feminine Hygiene Product Promises To Make Genitals ‘Many Shades Fairer’
- High sickness absence might be caused by abuse
- Equality and diversity charter for music
- 5 Gender Stereotypes That Used To Be the Exact Opposite
- Dresscode: Blue tie and male (Elektronista)
- The only dress code is suitability
- Modernizing Modesty: The Hijab and Body image
- Treasury failed to test fairness of spending cuts, equality watchdog finds (Guardian)
- 10 things never to say to somone with an eating disorder (fuck Yeah Sex Education)
- PIP breast implants: ‘serious lessons must be learned’ (BBC Health)
- Rebekah Brooks lays bare the secret of her success (Guardian)
- A play about astronomer Caroline Herschel sets the record straight
- NY Transgender Woman Dies in a Fire, So Of Course the NY Times’ Story is All About Wild Sex (Colorlines)
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