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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- Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In (bell hooks, The Feminist Wire)
- Kenya petition over ‘grass cutting for gang-rape’ tops 1m (BBC News)
- Jelly Belly Chairman Donates to Anti-Trans Campaign (The Advocate)
- Rape victim calls for law change as three women a week commit suicide to escape violent partners (Mirror)
- Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre ‘needs more female staff’ after detainee abused by officers (Independent)
- Beyond Girls and Boys: Teaching Gender to My Kids (Black Girl Dangerous)
- How not to raise a rapist (Guardian, Cif)
- Some British people can’t afford to heat their food. Aren’t we ashamed? (Guardian, Cif)
- HPV Vaccines Do Not Protect Against Strains Likely To Infect Black Women (Madame Noire)
- Wikipedia Bans Transphobic Editors After Chelsea Manning Dispute (Mashable)
- Tanzanian Women See Second Chance at Land Owning (Women’s eNews)
- Teacher who told students ‘Hitler wasn’t all bad, he killed the gays’ struck off (Pink News)
- My Lai, Sexual Assault and the Black Blouse Girl: Forty-Five Years Later, One of America’s Most Iconic Photos Hides Truth in Plain Sight (BagNews)
- This Off-Duty Cop Proves What Young Women Know About Who’s Really to Blame For Rape (PolicyMic)
- My Face is Not a Halloween Costume (BlogHer)
- Germany to allow ‘indeterminate’ gender at birth (BBC News)
- Why Intersex Germans Aren’t Crazy About Germany’s Third Gender Law (Hida Viloria)
- What happened when anti-FGM campaigner asked people in the street to sign a petition in favour of mutilating girls (London Evening Standard)
- Sex workers need support – but not from the ‘hands off my whore’ brigade (Guardian, Cif)
- Report calls for female genital mutilation to be treated as child abuse (Guardian, Society)
- What Really Happens To Your SEO Rankings When You Change Your Name (Graph) (MediaBistro)
- Government launches probe into maternity discrimination at work after surge in complaints (Independent)
- A discourse on brocialism (New Statesman)
- Parenthood in CEE – Accace Regional Study 2013 (Accace)
- Put a lock on it (Reticulated Writer)
- Shakuntala Devi Gets a Google Doodle for Her 84th Birthday (MediaBistro)
This week’s closing video is ‘Heart Shaped Stone’ by Kathryn Williams from the album Crown Electric:
Image attribution: The public domain image at the head of this post is called Fireworks and was found at publicdomainpictures.net
