It’s that time of the week again when we sum up some of the stories we would have liked to cover but didn’t have the time or the capacity. Links in these posts do not imply any kind of agreement or endorsement, they are simply things we thought might be of interest.
There has been some controversy on Twitter about this smear test campaign ad, posted by @welsh_gas_doc – what do you think?
With the following links, do bear in mind that external websites are not necessarily safe spaces, so please take care when visiting them. If you have spotted any other interesting links or articles this week, please feel free to share them in the comments below.
- Mary Beard on misogynistic internet trolls (Times Literary Supplement)
- Transgressive breastfeeding and the rules of the public sphere (In Hanoi)
- I Finally Understand Gay Conversion Therapy! (RUCO blog)
- The Observer and New Atkins: In case you don’t yet feel bad enough about eating… (Glosswatch)
- Alice Arnold – ‘I care deeply about women having a voice in the media’ (Sound Women)
- We don’t want to be used as your “token woman” (Nat Guest at Independent Voices)
- Girls and women ‘hit the hardest’ by global recession (BBC Business News)
- A Thing About Disablist Language (Melissa McEwan at Shakesville)
- Tenth person fined for naming Ched Evans rape victim (Daily Post)
- Have you been “spotted”? (Sarah Aston at HuffPost Students)
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/21/oxford-child-sex-abuse-ring (Alexandra Topping at the Guardian)
- Moore, Burchill and the web – a timeline (Trans Media Action, including a link to Helen’s post here)
- Sussex SWSS: Open letter to the Central Committee (Intifadaweya, following Laura’s post on the subject)
- World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over (RT.com)
- Nice Mothers Support Abortion Rights Too (Sarah Ditum at Guardian Comment is Free)
- Sexual exploitation and steroid abuse top threats to police (Wesley Johnson at The Telegraph)
- First Look At The Korean Action Heroines In THE HUNTRESSES (Al Young in Twitch)
- Occupation of University HR offices – protect ethnicity at the University of Birmingham (Defend Education Birmingham)
- Afghan rape victim ‘attacked again by government workers protecting her’ (Emma Graham-Harrison in The Guardian)
- Inside Mississippi’s last abortion clinic as it faces closure (Video) (BBC News Magazine)
- GQ Publishes ‘Hottest Women’ List and Ranks Women By Race (Jorge Rivas at Colorlines)
- My Ex Posted “Revenge Porn” Photos Of Me (Nerve)
- Suicide is a gender issue that can no longer be ignored (Jane Powell at Guardian Comment is Free)
- The story that’s taken ten years to tell: On abortion, race and the power of story (Shanelle Matthews at the Crunk Feminist Collective)
- A fetus is not a person if it costs us money, says Catholic Church (Kaili Joy Gray at The Daily Kos)
- The Guardian Media Group should apologise with actions, not words (Protest Transphobia)
- Why did men stop wearing high heels? (William Kremer at the BBC News Magazine)
- EWL launches Political Mentoring Network ahead of 2014 European Elections (EWL News)
- Anti-bullying flash mob turns Vancouver arena pink (The Windsor Star)
- Where is this amazing male contraceptive already? (Blue Milk)
- Fathers’ Sexism May Curb Daughters’ Work Ambitions, Research Suggests (Stephanie Pappas, HuffPost Science)
- “We may win or lose but we must fight” (Matt Warren, The Lady)
- Sadie’s Dream for the World (TransGriot)
- This will sound familiar… (PZ Myers, Pharyngula)
- A Brief History Of Women In Combat (Greg Myre, NPR The Picture Show)
- 4 African Feminists Recognised in Applause Africa’s list of ’40 under 40′ changemakers (African Feminist Forum)
- Inaugural Diversity (Jennifer Vanasco at Columbia Journalism Review)
- *CONTENT WARNING (rape, VAW)* A Rape a Minute, A Thousand Corpses a Year (The Nation)
- Betty Friedan Did Not Kill Home Cooking (The Atlantic)
- LGBT Liberation and Socialism: A Letter to my Comrades (Marxist Queen)
- Morocco to change rape marriage law (Al Jazeera)
- Health Department intends to revoke license from Mississippi’s only abortion clinic (Daily News)
- What it’s like to be a victim of Don’t Start Me Off’s internet hate mob (Cath Elliott at the New Statesman)
- April will be a very cruel month……if you are on welfare benefits! (Louise Whittle, False Economy)
- Radio-Activity IV: Mary Beard & A Scandal On The Airwaves (The Quietus)
To end the round-up, enjoy listening to Carelys Carreras playing the third movement of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with The Vienna Philharmonic Women’s Orchestra, conducted by Izabella Shareyko. An all-female orchestra, conductor and soloist are pretty much unheard of, and they are good!
[The image is a photograph of a herd of elephants, with the matriarch of the herd in the centre of the shot, raising her trunk. It was taken by Terry Feuerborn and is used under a Creative Commons Licence]