Here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so, but not had time to post about.
If you have a link or comment that doesn’t fit anywhere else and would like to share it, feel free to drop it in the comments here.
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- Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry: ‘I will not accept online misogyny’ (Guardian, Music)
- Why should you support the teachers’ strike? (#teacherROAR)
- Councils using zero hours, casual staff and the work programme (False Economy)
- Rick Owens sends a bevy of thick, black women down the runway. Progress? (Racialicious)
- Rape Crisis reports 40% rise in calls since Savile scandal (BBC News)
- Tips for David Cameron on how to be a feminist (sian and crooked rib)
- Porn On the Brain… Whether You Like It or Not (Huffington Post UK)
- Amplifying Women in the Recording Industry (Colorlines)
- On Working Together Over Time (The Advocate)
- New “feminist publication” in town, advocating forced sterilisation no less (Red Light Politics)
- “Calling your cuts a war, is an insult to my father, and to my brother, and the service they gave this country. This is not a war. It is a massacre.” Conservative Party address, Jack Monroe. (A girl called Jack)
- TW: Discussion of suicide, police violence, mental breakdown
Activist Burnout I: An Anatomy (The Fementalists) - Nordic children’s ombudsmen take historic step to protect children’s rights (National Secular Society)
- Fathers Are the Key to Ending Child Marriage (Huffington Post)
- Not my story – a public one (Ending Victimisation & Blame)
- Is This the Grossest Advertising Strategy of All Time? (The Atlantic)
- No ‘honour’ in killing young women, it’s a hate crime (Media Diversity UK)
- The Freak-Out Artist: Julian from Real Social Dynamics takes gaslighting to a new level (man boobz)
- Gloria Steinem – Trans Ally? (TransGriot)
- Activists push for global ban on stoning (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
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This week’s closing video is ‘Distance’ by Gill Sandell from the album Light The Boats:
Image attribution and description: The image at the head of this post is called flow. It shows some autumnal oak leaves floating in a stream and was found at ben matthews Flickr photostream. It is used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
