This week’s round-up and open thread.
Hi everyone
Here’s this week’s list of links to posts we came across recently but didn’t have time to cover on the site. Some of it may be triggering, so please approach with caution (Below, TW=trigger warning, but that doesn’t mean links that don’t have these initials at the start won’t be triggering for some people). And just because it’s in here doesn’t mean we loved it (could be in here because it incensed us!).
Please feel free to add links you came across, or start a chat about feminist things on your mind, via the comment thread.
- Max Clifford verdict: Shows historic abuse cases must be investigated (End Violence Against Women)
- The trans community needs to understand its differences (The Daily Dot)
- TW: Attorney General to review talented athlete Adam Hulin’s sentence for oral rape of child (Your local guardian)
- Nigeria: ‘Abducted Girls Moved Abroad’ (allAfrica)
- Max Clifford’s conviction proves celebrities are not above the law (Guardian)
- The politics of depression: Mark Fisher on mental health and class confidence (RS21)
- Janet Mock flips the script and interrogates a cis journalist on her womanhood (Feministing)
- Alarming figures: More than 1,500 reported murders of trans people since January 2008 (TransRespect VS Transphobia)
- TW:The stabbing of Ann Maguire was not an isolated incident – it’s part of a trend of fatal male violence against women (NewStatesman)
- Undressing Patriarchy: Men and Structural Violence (Institute of Development Studies)
- Review of evaluation approaches and methods used by interventions on women and girls’ economic empowerment (Overseas Development Institute)
- TW: Successful Street Artist Talks About How He Maybe Raped His Masseuse (gawker)
- (Sexual) Labour Day (notches)
- #womenintrousers take over Twitter – next stop Westminster? (Channel 4 News)
- Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate interviews Judith Butler (The TransAdvocate)
- To speak or not to speak?: Challenging white male panels (more like people)
- ‘She had Spanx on’: why the CPS dropped one rape case – as prosecution and conviction rates fall even further (Independent)
- Case study: ‘Type of underwear’ influenced CPS decision to drop rape case (the bureau of investigative journalism)
- World Snooker: Steve Davis says women will never match top men (BBC)
- Max Clifford sentenced to eight years for his crimes and contempt of women (Guardian)
- Peaches Geldof’s death is no less tragic because it involved heroin (Voices, Independent)
- Students at Spanish college fight ban on men using washing machines (Guardian)
- Woman guilty of luring ‘vulnerable’ girls into prostitution (BBC)
- Rape defendants’ anonymity is not in the public interest (Independent.ie)
- The N-word: Jeremy Clarkson has finally urinated on the live rail of racism (New Statesman)
- Feminists should celebrate: Nuts was never pornographic enough (Telegraph)
- UK: Culture Secretary blocks participation in EU gay rights summit (Pink News)
- US: Salvation Army refuses to house homeless transgender woman because she hasn’t had surgery (Pink News)
- Northern Accent; women writers reflect on writing about the north (Contributoria)
- License to Be Yourself: Laws and Advocacy for Legal Gender Recognition of Trans People (Open Society Foundations)
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