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. Please also be aware that external links are not necessarily safe spaces and the stories we mention may be triggering.
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- The rape of Anna Bates: what if Stieg Larsson had written Downton Abbey? by Holly Baxter (Guardian)
- Thanksgiving in Mongolia by Ariel Levy (The New Yorker)
- I’m not pre-pregnant. I just have a womb. A guest post by me for RxISK
- Why feminism doesn’t need a makeover by Hadley Freeman (Guardian)
- Music Videos Exploiting Black Women’s Bodies by Mary Isokariari (The Voice)
- Breastfeeding mothers offered £200 in shop vouchers by Nick Triddle (BBC)
- It’s not all about choice: how I learned to stop worrying* and love smashing patriarchy by Hannah Mudge (We mixed our drinks)
- Exposing Fake Clinics, “Stopping the lies of crisis pregnancy centers”
- VIDEO: Sheffield Women Of Steel statue go ahead by Graham Walker (The Sheffield Star)
- Hetty Bower vowed to campaign until her final breath – her last words were ‘Ban the bomb for ever’ by Ros Wynne-Jones (Mirror)
- Frida Kahlo Gets a Totally Unnecessary Cover Girl Makeover by Jamilah King (Colorlines)
- Want to Prevent Sexual Violence? Accept That You Know a Rapist by Peter Aldhous (Evidence Base)
- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka: Violence against women is an issue for us all by Liz Ford (Guardian)
- If prostitution isn’t about lonely, undersexed men, what is it about? (Or, Justin Bieber doesn’t need to pay for sex) by Meghan Murphy (Feminist Current)
- 18 Survivors Of Sexual Assault Tell The Numbers Behind Their Stories by Rachel Zarrell (BuzzFeed)
- Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring project, TDOR 2013 update (Trans Respect Versus Transphobia): 238 cases of reported killings of trans people in the last 12 months (1374 reports of murdered trans people in 60 countries since Jan 2008)
- The Less Fun Side of Social Media (Justine Larbalestier)
- Conservatives erase Internet history by Mark Ballard (Public Sector IT)
- Calling all Spare Rib Contributors! by Polly Russell (Social Science Blog): The British Library is assessing the feasibility of digitising the complete run of Spare Rib magazine from 1972 to 1993 and is asking for Spare Rib contributors (including illustrators and photographers) to get in touch
- ITV news presenter hits back after abuse for not wearing poppy by Shane Hickey (Guardian)
- OCD Action Youth Panel discusses the term ‘I’m so OCD’ (YouTube)
- New mag to cover global women’s issues by Noah Hurowitz (Columbia Journalism Review)
- A quick comment on “Hard Out Here” (Susuana’s Adventures in U.L.U. Land)
- Jenny’s DLA was stopped (Social Awareness)
- On Being a Little Person by a woman who appeared in Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance (A Bunch of Dumb Show)
- Funding cuts place charity in jeopardy by our Jess McCabe (Inside Housing)
- Lily Allen or Miley Cyrus: who’s the bigger feminist? by Bernadette McNulty (Telegraph)
- PIP implant scandal: German firm ordered to pay damages (BBC)
- Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies aged 94 by Nick Higham (BBC)
To end this post, and start the week in style, enjoy Liszt’s torrid Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, as performed by Evelyn Chen.
[The image is a photograph of a carnivorous Sarracenia plant. The plant’s leaves have evolved into a funnel in order to trap insects, digesting their prey with proteases and other enzymes. The insects are attracted by a nectar-like secretion on the lip of pitchers, as well as a combination of color and scent. Slippery footing at the pitchers’ rim, aided in at least one species by a narcotic drug lacing the nectar, causes insects to fall inside, where they die and are digested by the plant as a nutrient source. The photograph was taken by Kristen and is used under a Creative Commons Licence]