Hi everyone! As usual, here’s a list of the bits and bobs that we haven’t had time to blog in full this week. And feel free to use the comments as an open thread for discussions or bringing up anything we might have missed.
- Yes, I Play Video Games, and No, You Cannot See My Boobs from xoJane
- Liverpool Frontline Church’s Ex-Gay Ministry from Ex-Gay Watch
- Marketing week report breast cancer charities warned that pink is counterproductive
- from the Maddow Blog: Norway terrorist Breivick blames women
- Feminist Law Professors report evidence that 1/3 of online porn consumers are women
- Zerlina at Feministing looks at the bystander effect in the case of Amy Winehouse
- Ivonne Spinoza: Just Don’t Get Raped
- Interview Magazine talk to Gloria Steinem
- The Playtex seamstress responsible for the NASA space suit at Boing Boing
- Australian statistics show cocaine use has soared amongst women in their 20s
- A single mother in America has been convicted of vehicular homicide for ‘jaywalking’ after her son was killed by a hit-and-run driver who had been drinking and taking painkillers
- Entertainment-industry company Sargent Disc have undertaken an age and gender analysis of the UK film industry
- Sarah Cook at Bad Reputation talks about why She-Ra is an inspirational fictional feminist (when Pippa tweeted about this from our Twitter feed it sparked off an awesome discussion about childhood feminist heroes here)
- Cameron’s ‘blue sky thinker’ Steve Hilton suggests abolishing maternity leave
- Alyson Macdonald at Bright Green on Dorries and the abortion debate
- A rape survivor discusses ‘rape outfits’ and the Slut Walks in the context of her own rape (trigger warning: description of a rape)
- The Browser interviews author Maria Sveland on feminism
- Clare Cochrane blogs on ‘How I Became Disabled‘ at Topsoil
- Womensgrid links to audio clips of Bristol Feminists discussing their past and present experiences of the movement
- Women in Technology report a survey which shows that more than half of women think there’ll still be a gender pay gap in 2020 and women will still struggle to get senior roles. They also discuss how businesses are still not taking boardroom diversity seriously.
- Amy Flemming in the Guardian looks at the cliche of women slapping men in films
- Technorati: Bristol Palin, Slut Walks and Responsibility for Rape
- Julia Horel-O’Brien on what it means when progressives insult their political enemies based on their weight rather than their politics
- Elly at Taking the Lane: My so-called out-of-control life
- Two builders suspended for wolf-whistling
- BBC: The subtle messages that put women off science
- Bisocial network: Glee and biphobia
- The Art of Boobs
- A New York Times’ Asia Pacific Section feature on an Afghan love story which provoked a riot
- New blog:Secret diary of an I.T. Girl
- July’s mental health blog carnivial on the theme of stigma and discrimination
- Egypt’s first ever female minister dies
- Independent:Government ends free language classes for immigrants
- NPR’s health blog, Shots reports that ‘conversion therapy’ has hit the news again
- and, last but not least, Stephanie Foster asks Are DC Think Tanks a City of Men?
Image by flickr user ianlord, shared under a creative commons license. Image depicts two sheep dogs rounding up sheep (’round-up’ – geddit?!)