It’s that time of the week again when we share the links we’ve spotted that we thought were interesting, thought-provoking, or just great. That’s not to say we agree with everything we link to, though, so don’t consider a link to be an endorsement.
So, here we go. Feel free to share anything you’ve spotted in the comments below.
- Senegal rape: 11-year-old girl denied abortion gives birth to twin boys (Guardian)
- The Daily Mail prints lies about some of the most vulnerable people in society; trans children (UnCommon Sense)
- Christian charity chief charged with sexual assault (Third Sector)
- Reddit Feminist Forum Fights Trolls With Period Jokes (NY Mag)
- Nigel Farage has just had his Nick Griffin moment (The Telegraph)
- How Women Should Dress For Their Jobs, According To Stock Photos (BuzzFeed)
- Sudan: pregnant mother sentenced to death for apostasy (Amnesty International UK)
- Spitting, Stalking, Rape Threats: How Gun Extremists Target Women (Mother Jones)
- Sandy Hook ‘Truther’ Tells Victim’s Mother Her Daughter Never Existed (HuffPost)
- Chaos at the Oxford Union as president Ben Sullivan returns amidst rape allegations (Independent)
- MPs to investigate Serco over sex assault claim at Yarl’s Wood centre (Guardian)
- Stand up for Sex Workers: Eden Alexander, WePay and Whorephobia (Penny Red)
- Labour MP Austin Mitchell defends Pfizer ‘rapist’ tweet (BBC)
- For better, for Wurst: a trans perspective on Eurovision 2014 (So So Gay)
- Image of Malala being shot used in mattress ad campaign (ITV)
- Sarah Millican: Twitter was a pin to my excitable Bafta balloon (Radio Times)
- Female editors of Le Monde and the New York times spiked in a single day (Independent)
- Judge slams girlfriend beater (Court News UK), in which a judge tells a man who beat up his girlfriend and then got upset, ‘Big deal… you weren’t half as upset as the girl lying on the floor with a broken jaw.’
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Google celebrates mathematician with Witch of Agnesi Doodle (Independent)
- One in five LGBT students have been bullied or harassed on campus (Guardian)
- Transgender Latinas’ stories reveal how much intolerance they still endure (Guardian)
- Racism is far more than old white men using the N-word (Guardian)
[The image is a photograph of two sunflowers, against a blurry background of a field of sunflowers. I took the photograph and it is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence]
