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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- I’m a feminist and I’ve had cosmetic surgery. Why is that a problem? by Angela Neustatter (Comment is Free)
- Revealed: Thousands of rape cases thrown out as charges fall following new CPS guidelines by Melanie Newman and Oliver Wright (Independent)
- Woody Allen’s Good Name by Aaron Bady (The New Inquiry)
- European Parliament asks for EU LGBTI roadmap in landmark report (Intergroup on LGBT Rights)
- Report — Europe: The state decides who I am: Lack of legal gender recognition for transgender people in Europe (Amnesty International)
- Thanks to Care.data, your secrets are no longer safe with your GP by Asher Wolf (Wired.co.uk)
- ‘A Panorama of Toxicity’: On Being a Trans Woman Online by Katherine Cross (RH Reality Check)
- Gay marriage legalised in Scotland following historic vote at Holyrood by David Clegg (Daily Record)
- Why 2014 is a key year for women’s rights and gender equality by Liz Ford (the Guardian)
- In Defense of Twitter Feminism by Suey Park (Model View Culture)
- Transgender Advocate Janet Mock: Piers Morgan “Sensationalized” My Story by Chris Geidner (BuzzFeed)
- Women in politics, the pay gap, and our economy (Fawcett)
- Convicted paedophiles in Macedonia face chemical castration (the Guardian)
- U.N. Panel Criticizes the Vatican Over Sexual Abuse by Laurie Goodstein, Nick Cumming-Bruce and Jim Yardley (the New York Times)
- Why I do not support the European Parliament recommendations on undocumented women migrants by Flavia Dzodan (Red Light Politics)
- Smiling vagina mural faces removal for ‘inappropriate’ setting in Swedish school by Jess Denham (the Independent)
- Modesty, Fat Shaming, and Me in a Bikini by Mindy (Skepchick)
- #BigBenefitsRow by Lisa Egan (Where’s the Benefit?)
- The Chapel Perilous: On the Quiet Narratives in the Shadows by Quinnae Moongazer (Nuclear Unicorn)
- Police will have ‘backdoor’ access to health records despite opt-out, says MP by Randeep Ramesh (the Guardian)
- There are very good reasons a foetus cannot be a victim of crime by Zoe Williams (Comment is Free)
- Cultural Apropriation: the fashionable face of racism by Chimene Suleyman (Media Diversified)
- Rainbow Google doodle links to Olympic charter as Sochi kicks off (the Guardian)
- On Piers Morgan’s Transphobia by s.e. smith (Global Comment)
- Understanding gender diversity: sex and gender are not the same thing (Guardian style guide)
- What is rape culture? by Ryan Broderick, Heben Nigatu and Jessica Testa (BuzzFeed)
- 10 Undeniable Facts About the Woody Allen Sexual-Abuse Allegation by Maureen Orth (Vanity Fair)
- Women’s rights country by country – interactive (the Guardian)
- Catholics and church at odds on contraception, divorce and abortion by Lizzy Davies (the Guardian)
- BBC bans all-male panels on comedy shows such as QI and Mock the Week by Mark Jefferies (Mirror)
- Leaked report: UK Home Office ‘interrogates’ LGBT asylum seekers with degrading questions by Aaron Day (Pink News)
- Why aren’t middle-aged women the face of angry protest? by Melissa Benn (the Guardian)
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I’m closing with a comedy video from Australian duo Sparrow Folk about breast feeding in public. It’s rather fabulous. (HT Feministing)
[The image is a photograph of the tails of six My Little Ponies, arranged in the colours of a rainbow. It was taken by Austin and Zak and is used under a Creative Commons Licence]