Weekly round up and open thread

Nudibranch.jpgNew week, new links! As ever, linking isn’t endorsement, and some links may contain disturbing content. If we’ve left anything out, pop it in the comments!

  • Peaches Geldof: Writer and TV Presenter Dies Aged 25 (BBC)
  • ‘Manifestly Inadequate’: austerity and cuts are punishing and devastating – See more at: http://www.feministtimes.com/manifestly-inadequate-austerity-cuts-punishing-devastating/#sthash.CKLMjRpA.dpuf (Feminist Times) – by our very own Philippa Willitts
  • Peacebuilding: The factor that makes a difference (Open Democracy)
  • Men: show us the female characters you admire (Guardian)
  • Women who eat on the Tube (Ellie Mae O’Hagan) (Consider, on the other hand, this)
  • An open letter to Brogrammers (Franklin’s livejournal)
  • Flirtation or sexual harassment? Here’s how to tell the difference (Guardian)
  • Sue Townsend obituary, plus other writers’ reflections on Townsend and a 1989 article she wrote about the welfare state (Guardian)
  • Doctors implant lab-grown vagina (BBC)
  • Iraq poised to legalise marriage for girls as young as 9 (Washington Post)
  • Dated Feminists (feministkilljoys)
  • Parenting the non-girlie girl (New York Times)
  • Creator of For Brown Girls Blog Reportedly Commits Suicide at Age 22 (The Root)
  • Stop telling survivors they must report to the police (Feministing)
  • Monica Jones Guilty Of Walking While Black Trans In Arizona (TransGriot)
  • Army ‘must consider’ female combat roles (BBC)
  • Oscar Pistorius’ trigger

    (New Yorker)

  • Trans inmate on hunger strike: “I don’t want to die” (LGBTI News Turkey)
  • Sarah Wollaston: Why am I being blamed for Nigel Evans sex case? (The Telegraph)
  • Supermarket staff could win millions in equal pay cases (Guardian)
  • FB trans safe spaces list
  • “Not ALL men” is the feminist in-joke so popular it’s now got its own Tumblr (Us vs Th3m)
  • Lastly, if I may, rather cheekily: here’s an interview I did with the Singapore Sunday Times, about my newly published novel A Certain Exposure, which, I like to think, has a few feminist themes. Unfortunately it’s not physically distributed in the UK but you can sample a few pages and order a copy of the book here.

    To end off, here’s a video from Singapore’s We Can! campaign against violence against women, drawing on the insight that the way we talk about HIV, sex and marriage may put women’s health at risk:

    Image shows a colourful nudibranch. Used under a Creative Commons licence thanks to Dolkar2012.