Here is your weekly summary of the stories we couldn’t write about this week.
We share things because they are interesting or thought-provoking, not necessarily because we agree with them.
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- An Open Letter to Roseanne Barr, From a Feminist Sister (Feminist Ire)
- David Cameron criticised over gay ‘witch-hunt’ remarks (Pink News)
- Domestic Violence: Women’s Services Face ‘Disastrous’ Cuts As Councils Slash Budgets, FOI Reveals (HuffPo)
- Family courts ‘ignoring needs of domestic violence victims’ (Guardian)
- The Words We Learn To Read; Reclaiming Fat (The Rotund)
- Vintage Anti-Suffrage Postcards (Sociological Images)
- An Open Letter to the AGO About Frida Kahlo’s Unibrow (Shameless)
- Away from the celebrity scandals and conspiracy theories, abusers are often the most ordinary of monsters (Guardian)
- Pakistan marks “Malala Day”, poor children to get cash for school (TrustLaw)
- Poison Pill (View from a Hermitage Window)
- Child abuse victims ‘may feel unable to speak out for fear of media witch-hunt’ (Guardian)
- Savile: supping with the devil (Disability Now)
- The Atlantic on Women and Men, From 1859 to Now (The Atlantic)
- Abuse charity to recycle Fifty Shades as toilet paper (BBC Tyne & Wear)
- Nadine Dorries suspended as Tory MP in I’m a Celebrity row (BBC News)
- No Doubt, exploiting ‘hot’ Native American stereotypes is never OK (Guardian)
- The genetic button that could turn a WOMAN into a CHIMPANZEE (The Register)
- Female genital mutilation: asylum seeker fights deportation to the Gambia (Guardian)
- Gillette, not the best marketing can get (Independent)
- ‘Rogue’ breast surgeon could face criminal investigation, say police (Guardian)
- ‘Institutional racism is an issue’ in NHS, says ex-executive (BBC News, London)
- ‘Having it all’ is not a women’s issue (Independent)
- Operation Tuleta: Woman arrested in privacy breach probe (BBC News)
- The sex issue: Is monogamy dead? (Guardian)
- President Obama responds to a letter from a girl who asks his advice on dealing with people who are unkind to her: Our differences Unite Us (Letters of Note)
- Feminist Nail Art (Stylist)
And to end, a song from Kate Reid at Toronto Pride: Starvin’ Artists
[The image is a photograph of some spray-painted graffiti of a woman looking down with a lilac flower in her hair. It was taken by Adam Ross and is used under a Creative Commons Licence]
