Weekly round-up and open thread, 29 October 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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• Child support agency changes threaten women already living in fear (Guardian, Money)
• How to be better: on intersectionality, privilege and silencing (Another angry woman)
• A school reveals it has a "Fantasy Slut League" (Salon)
• Dear Vagenda Editors... (Black Feminists)
• China's 'Leftover' Women (NYT, Opinion)
• Little Pink & Blue Knitted Suits: A Man Speaks Out About Damaging Gender Roles (Week Woman)
• Noor Inayat Khan: remembering Britain's Muslim war heroine (Guardian, Life and style)
• European Union debate due on women board quotas (BBC Business News)
• Savile, Reddit and turning off the lights (Women's Views on News)
• 'Unacceptable force' used by G4S staff deporting pregnant woman (Guardian)
• You don't need an MA in gender studies to know that race matters to feminism (Guardian, Cif)
• Should He Stay or Should He Go Now? (Lisybabe's Blog)
• An Open Letter to Ann Coulter (The World of Special Olympics)
• Spearmint Rhino's 24 hour strip club and Page 3 - you're not about 'choice' for women (The Independent, Voices)
• Significant Other - Gender Signifiers in Video Games (How to not suck at game design)
• TW: Angel Haze Exposes Brutal History of Childhood Sexual Assault In Devastating New Track (xojane)
• Fujitsu assigns team of women to design PC for women (The Register)
• TW: New York police officer charged with plan to cook, eat women (Reuters)
• Yes, i do look lush. No, you don't need to tell me. (sian and crooked rib)
• Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise? (Huffington Post UK)
• Breastfeeding: Still a mother's right to choose? (Women's Views on News)
• South Africa: Shock As Six Lesbians Brutally Beaten At Petrol Station (Identity Kenya)
• Dressing up for Halloween: a feminist's guide (Guardian, Cif, Guardian Comment Network)
• What we expect from allies, and the view from both sides of that fence (Equal Rights - Fatihah Iman)
• The hair trade's dirty secret (Guardian, Life and style)
• Almost five million British workers paid less than the living wage (Guardian, Society)

This week's closing video is "Fotheringay" by Fairport Convention from the band's 1969 LP "What We Did on Our Holidays":

IMAGE ATTRIBUTION AND DESCRIPTION: The Public Domain image at the head of this post is The Earth seen from Apollo 17, from Wikipedia.

"The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 statute miles). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula.

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