Links to the stories we didn’t have the time, spoons or capacity to cover this week!
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]