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Good morning, and welcome to the weekly thread of links! (And there are a lot of them this week.) Comments are open for you to post anything we missed or just have a feminist chat. As always, a link doesn’t necessarily imply agreement or endorsement, and some links may be triggering.
Sorry, Shirley Williams, but I have to nail your health bill myths (Guardian CiF)
The Hypocrisy of International Women’s Day (Blackfeminists)
Gaslighting, power and differences of opinion (Another angry woman)
Women on Boards: One-Year-On (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)
Should sex offenders be chemically “castrated”? (Guardian Politics)
Linda Grant’s Twitter Tales of Sexism (Guardian) – which has led to A Thousand Reasons
A strange wind this way blows (UK Legal Feminist Group)
“You got a couple of ’em!” (The Hairpin)
Betty Reintroducing the Electric Vibrator as a Pleasure Device (Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross)
Anti-abortion activism escalating, warns clinic targeted by vigil (Guardian)
Feminist icon glitter-bombed for transphobia (Gay Star News)
Once we start to sexualize our M&Ms, we know something’s wrong
Coverage Of Political Conference Comes In Form Of “Beautiful Female Journalists” Slideshow (The Jane Dough)
City Council Charges Women Twice As Much To Use Gym, Women Shockingly Not Thrilled (The Jane Dough)
Anti-abortion campaigners like 40 Days for Life have resorted to intimidation (Guardian)
Transgender activist Agnes Torres found dead in Puebla, Mexico (2B Magazine)
The Female Face of Farming
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/14/falsely-retracted-rape-claim-questions (Guardian CiF)
Vintage Advice for Girls Having Their Period (1951) (Rockalily)
New Rape Crisis Centres Announced
Arizona Law Will Allow Employers to Fire Women for Using Whore Pills (Jezebel)
3,500 women in Europe that are ready for the boardroom
Moroccan girl commits suicide after being forced to marry her rapist (Al Arabiya News)
How we can connect with feminism’s global future (Guardian, Cif America)
I’m not racist, some of my colleagues are white – what is ‘diversity’ anyway? (Guardian Cif)
Ministry of Justice funds five new rape support centres (Ministry of Justice)
PIP implants: Welsh health minister issue new advice (BBC News Wales)
A cleaner conscience: the politics of domestic labour (Guardian)
Dear Fathers 4 Justice
Welfare reforms to hit poorer working mothers, pushing 250,000 children deeper into poverty (Save the Children)
Assange ‘to run for Australian senate’ (Al Jazeera English)
Kira Cochrane interviews Rosario Dawson (Guardian)
Fathers for Power and Control (Left at the Lights)
Why the Smooth Mound? (Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross)
How to be a feminist man (Feminist Action Cambridge)
Fascist reunion under the BMW logo in Bucharest (brecht-o-rama)
Anna Ford criticises BBC over ageism and sexism (BBC News)
Hipster Misogyny (Freethought Blogs)
Jessica Jones is the first girl to be named UK Young Engineer of the Year (BBC)
…and you’ve made it to the end! Here’s something a bit lighter – the trailer for the new Hunger Games film, which is out this week. Plenty of grist for the feminist mill in the books; let’s hope it survives the transition to the big screen.