We can’t always cover every story that catches our eye, so this post is to share some of the links we’ve read and found interesting this week. We don’t endorse, or agree with, everything here, we just thought they were worth sharing.
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- Online trolling of women is linked to domestic violence, say campaigners (Alexandra Topping, Society Guardian)
- Stop playing politics with human rights (Shami Chakrabarti, CiF)
- How “mummy feminism” can get it wrong (Glosswitch, New Statesman)
- Can we talk about white supremacy and race in punk? (the multicultural politic)
- Attacks on disabled people still rife – one year on from Paralympics triumph (Cahal Milmo, Independent)
- UN Watchdog To Investigate ‘Bedroom Tax’ Suicide Link (Welfare News Service)
- Things I Never, Ever Want to Hear Again (Shanley, Medium)
- How Wikipedia got it wrong on Chelsea Manning, and why (Sue Gardner’s Blog)
- I am angry too (David R. MacIver)
- How to Be an Ally to Trans Women *Excerpt from Excluded* (Julia Serano, Velvet Park)
- The man who made Femen: New film outs Victor Svyatski as the mastermind behind the protest group and its breast-baring stunts (Geoffrey Macnab, Independent)
- bpas: ‘In our experience, the only women requesting abortion on the basis of gender alone are undercover journalists’ (politics.co.uk)
- MPs, Lords, Commons Staff Under Fire For Accessing Porn Via Parliamentary Network (HuffPost Politics)
- Russian lawmaker proposes bill that would deny gay parents custody over children (The Washington Post)
- Mumsnet feminism survey: infographic
- We Need to Parent Our Sons AND Our Daughters (Mike Julianelle, Huffington Post)
- DC forbids Batwoman’s gay marriage, creative team leaves (Rob Bricken, io9)
- How to be the perfect victim – a how-to guide for good girls (Caroline Criado-Perez, Week Woman)
- Senegal hails new prime minister known for football and feminism (Dan Moshenberg, Guardian Africa Network)
- Top Lib Dem Sarah Teather to step down in despair at Nick Clegg’s policies (Toby Helm, Guardian)
- ‘Titstare’ app at Techcrunch: women in tech deserve better (Amy Gray, Guardian)
I hope that provides you with some good start-of-the-week reading fodder, and if you want something more audiovisual, heed this warning about the perils of lesbianity.
[The photograph is a close-up of the inside of a strawberry. It was taken by Andrew Kuznetsov and is used under a Creative Commons Licence]