Here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so, but not had time to post about.
If you have a link or comment that doesn’t fit anywhere else and would like to share it, feel free to drop it in the comments here.
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- Intuitive Feminism (Gender Across Borders)
- 33 Women Music Critics You Need to Read (FlavorWire)
- Supporting Abortion Rights in the UK (Feministe)
- Queer and Trembling: A Transvaluation (Fay Davies/Diva Magazine)
- Rapists ‘out of jail in a year’ under new rules (Metro)
- Home Secretary refuses to change new domestic violence requirement (Migrants’ Rights Network)
- A mixed picture for women’s employment (ToUChstone blog)
- ‘Bridesmaids’ Co-Writer Scores Big ABC TV Deal (Hollywood Reporter)
- Sex: Do international bodies look the other way? (TrustLaw)
- Teaching Boys Feminism (Feminist Teacher)
- DSK Déjà Vu (The Nation)
- Date Rape is a Crime (Topsoil)
- Nadine Dorries, It’s Not About You (The Madosphere)
- Shady Business, As Usual: Jennifer Lawrence Steps Out As The Hunger Games Heroine (Racialicious)
- Global Connect! Google New York Supported Gender Justice Program for Women of the Diaspora (Womens eNews)
- Graffiti’s Cozy, Feminine Side (NY Times Fashion)
- Is feminism relevant to 21st-century fiction? (The Independent)
- ‘Gender equality is not a luxury’ says head of UN Women (Women’s Views on News)
- Trafficked children ‘sold in UK for £16,000’ (BBC News Politics)
- Afghan Official: Talks with Taliban Will Not be at Expense of Women (Voice of America News)
- The Ladies’ Monthly: A Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction
- Ken Clarke and Dominique Strauss-Kahn: a tale of two cultures (The Guardian Politics blog)
- A feminist presumption of victimhood impairs justice (The Independent)
- Women’s Access to the Internet (Gender Across Borders)
- Sm{art}: The Disarming Catherine Eyde (Bitch Magazine)
- ‘Don’t be THAT guy’: Edgy campaign targets link between alcohol and sexual violence (Ottawa Citizen)
- Need more girls on your board? Look beyond your old boys’ network, then (Civil Society)
- Intellectual Women (Thinking and Doing)
- Online petition: Tell Skechers to discontinue “Shape Ups For Girls” (change.org)
- Richard Littlejohn on rape (Angry Mob)
- Equalities (Red Tape Challenge)
- Ken Clarke’s comments: the view of an ex-Rape Crisis counsellor (The Guardian Cif)
- On talking about sexual assault and Dominique Strauss-Kahn (Stories of Conflict and Love)
- Women and the coalition: how the government is letting down women (The Guardian Life and style)
- Saudi woman detained for defying driving ban (Seattle Times)
- Shut up, ladies, can’t you see we’re trying to talk? (Bidisha)
- French women attack misogyny in Strauss-Kahn case (Reuters)
- Barnes & Noble Censors Cover Featuring Androgynous Male Model (Jezebel)
- Your body is obscene if you’re a woman, or look like one (Skepchick)
- Filament mag has a new website
- Reading Dr. Seuss Can Be Dangerous (The Slacktiverse)
- Ms Dynamite’s back with a bang (The Observer)
- India’s unwanted girls (BBC News)
- A word on rape, Ken Clarke (The Guardian Cif)
This week’s closing music vid is an old school Balearic classic and one of my all-time favourite songs: Barefoot in the head by A Man Called Adam.
[Public domain image ‘The Earth seen from Apollo 17’ via Wikipedia]