Weekly round-up and open thread, 27 August 2012

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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• Olympic suffragettes regroup for women's rights march on parliament (Guardian, World news)
• 'Brave' director Brenda Chapman breaks silence: Getting taken off film 'heartbreaking... devastating... distressing' (Inside Movies)
• Time to Get Angry Again (LRB blog)
• The Sun's Stop Rape Now Campaign (The Sun)
• Torturing Lesbians In Ecuador (Feminist Philosophers)
• Ex-Sheffield United striker Ched Evans refused permission to appeal rape conviction (The Star)
• A Discussion of Feminism and the Trans Community (Feminists For Choice)
• Japanese journalist killed covering fighting in Syria (BBC News, Asia)
• Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me (Guernica)
• Women in finance: the past 50 years (Guardian, Comment is free, The Joris Luyendijk banking blog)
• Feminist Avengers take to the Fringe (feministavenger)
• 'HuffPo,' 'Newsweek' Face Backlash Over Abortion Metaphor (Mashable)
• Legal myths about the Assange extradition (New Statesman)
• Everyone's talking about rape (Guardian, Cif)
• George Galloway sacked as political columnist for rape remarks (Guardian, Politics)
• Another post about rape (Fugitivus) - An oldie, but very relevant at the moment, on how the way women are socialised to behave affects how we react to rape
• Nina Simone's Daughter on Her Mother's REAL Legacy (Ebony)
• Women scientists are from Venus; the BBC is from Mars (openDemocracy)
• Palestinian town gets new mayor, aged 15 (Guardian, World)
• Riot grrl, Pussy Riot and the heartbreak of seeing feminism attacked in Russia (Gear Diary)
• IN GOOD FAITH: Why your innocent views on rape upset me (Libertarian Lou's Blog)
• Celebrate Paralympians, but remember they needed state help to get there (Guardian, Cif)
• Storm gathers pace over Bradford MP Galloway's comments on rape (Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
• Where are all the women? (That Emily Chappell)
• Can men be feminists? (New Statesman, Blogs)
• 'Pregnancy Begins 2 Weeks Before Conception' Now The Law In Arizona (New Civil Rights Movement) - Another oldie, but again very relevant to various discussions this week, online and off
• Ryan on abortion exceptions: Rape is just another 'method of conception' (The Raw Story)
• Pussy Riot sued by Siberians for 'moral suffering' (Independent, World)
• Two Pussy Riot members flee Russia (Guardian, Music)
• Games On! Raise Your Voice (Unless You're a Female Sports Commentator) (Bitch Media)
• 65,000 hate crimes against disabled people and rising. This has to stop. (Independent Editor's choice Blogs))
• Lives worth living: Disability, abortion, and slipshod ethics (Tiger Beatdown)
• Sandi Toksvig: 'I don't understand boredom' (Guardian, Books)
• Taliban behead 17 Afghan partygoers (Guardian, World)

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This week's closing video is "Follow The Heron" by Karine Polwart, recorded live at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival in 2009:

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The image at the head of this post is The Southern Milky Way Above ALMA, from the European Southern Observatory's Flickr photostream and used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

The image is a photo of a starry night sky, with the Milky Way prominent, above a cluster of large telescopes pointing skywards.

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