It’s the time of the week when we round up the stories that we spotted this week that we didn’t have the time, capacity or spoons to cover. We don’t agree with everything we link to – some things we just found interesting or wanted to draw attention to. Also bear in mind that some external websites may not be safe spaces, so do take care before clicking.
- An Open Letter to Big Feminist Media Regarding Hugo Schwyzer* (Global Comment)
- ASDA removes ‘Tranny-saurus’ greetings card after complaints (Gay Star News)
- DrinkSavvy Cups Detect Date Rape Drugs (Mashable)
- Law cannot determine whether Assange is guilty of sexual assault (Critical Legal Thinking)
- Detroit’s female police officers furious as bra sizes shared across force (Telegraph)
- Breaking Bad is great TV, but with no real women, it can never be ‘my’ show (Guardian Comment is Free)
- Cricketer Sarah Elliott scored her century between breastfeeds
- For Women, a Second Sentence (NY Times)
- #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen: women of color’s issue with digital feminism (Guardian, Comment is Free)
- The Internet reacts to Bryan Goldberg’s Bustle.com launch (Daily Dot, Storify)
- 1 in 6 women arriving at fracture clinics are recent victims of domestic abuse, international study shows (CAADA)
- Lady Gaga’s New Low: Why “Burqa Swag” Needs to STOP (Feminspire)
- Feminism can’t be just for white women (Salon)
- Spoon in underwear saving youths from forced marriage (AFP)
- Storify, Stalkers and Terms of Service (Whatever)
- In Disney’s Planes, the Guys Soar While the Girls Get Left in the Dust (Jezebel)
- How the word ‘troll’ has been redefined by the powerful (Guardian, Comment is Free)
- Not Your Fetish: The Takedown of Day Above Ground (Open Salon)
- Dear Daughter: I Hope You Have Awesome Sex (The Good Men Project)
- Coronation Street star Chris Fountain suspended over ‘totally unacceptable’ secret rap alter-ego The Phantom (The Independent)
- Norway to front women’s rights internationally (The Foreigner)
- Of course all men don’t hate women. But all men must know they benefit from sexism (New Statesman)
- Alice Walker Addresses University of Michigan Issue (SpeakOUT!)
- Oscar Pistorius to be charged for premeditated murder of girlfriend (The Guardian)
- An Argument for the Total Irrelevance of Beauty (Sociological Images)
- Newsnight strips “porn user” of her PhD (The Media Blog)
- I was a misogynist (to a fault)
- Stop asking my daughter to give you a kiss (Daily Life)
- The Women’s Institute – no longer about ‘jam and Jerusalem’ (Guardian, Life and style)
- The choice to be child-free is admirable, not selfish (Guardian, Comment is Free)
- Russian athletes kiss in protest against anti-LGBT law (Pink News)
- Page 3 caught up in a feminist booby-trap: Readers of ‘The Sun’ are in for an eyeful (The Independent)
- Food bank Britain: life below the line (The Observer)
- Germany To Offer Third Gender Option On Birth Certificates (Huffpost Gay Voices)
- Seven Questions I Asked My Parents About My Abortion (Feministe)
- Section 28 returns: Many more UK schools found to be banning promotion of ‘gay’ issues (Gay Star News)
And in a change from the usual kind of video that concludes these round-ups, I am sharing this just because I discovered the phenomenon this morning and found it really quite wonderful. If you need some cheer in your life, check out some springboks pronking.
[The image is a photograph of a large wave crashing against Whitby harbour wall. It was taken by Mark Morton and is used under a Creative Commons Licence]