Weekly round-up and open thread, 19th November 2012

Hi everyone

Here's this week's list of links to interesting things around the internet we didn't get a chance to cover. Anything included is for info only - not necessarily endorsement. Also, please be advised that some of the content may be triggering.

If you've come across anything interesting in the last week you want to share, please do post it up via the comments.

• Activists set up camp in Starbucks (Inside Housing)
• An Open Letter to the AGO About Frida Kahlo's Unibrow (Shameless)
• Woman's Hour Power List (BBC)
• Parental leave to become flexible under plans set out by Nick Clegg (Guardian)
• On rescuing a tourist from a house of hidden cameras (i take notes)
• Facebook silencing a women's uprising? (Now Lebanon)
• Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman And The State Of Period Dramas (Racialicious)
• Calls to rape crisis lines increase (Women's Views on News)
• Worsening economy linked to more domestic violence (politics.co.uk)
• The Rise of the Tech Female Networks in the UK (Huffington Post UK)
• What happens to women denied abortions? This is the first scientific study to find out. (io9.com)
• Scandal in Ireland as woman dies in Galway 'after being denied abortion' (Guardian)
• Swedish School's Big Lesson Begins With Dropping Personal Pronouns (New York Times)
• Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? (Slashdot)
• Vigils and protests over Savita held (Irish Times)
• Did Irish Catholic law or malpractice kill Savita Halappanavar? (Dr. Jen Gunter)
• Humanists attempt to halt 'back-door' spread of state-funded religious schools (Guardian)
• How Many Mics #1 • "Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem" (wears the trousers)
• "I am no man": For Zelda-playing daughter, dad gives Link a sex change (Ars Technica)
• Female execs hit by £400,000 gender pay gap over course of careers (HR Review)
• Doing Antiracism Wrong At Jezebel (Racialicious)
• Reactions to EU decision to drop plans for gender quotas (HR Review)
• The housing trap (Inside Housing)
• Utah district sued for segregating children's book about lesbian mums (Guardian)
• The OXM Breakdown - Women in Videogames (OXM)
• Researchers Say More Than Ever, Girls Hate Their Bodies (kutv)
• Facebook bans woman after she reposts death threat (Telegraph)
• Standing in solidarity with gay Ugandans (feministing)
• Gender in the Hidden Curriculum (The Society Pages)
• Witness: China's One Child Policy (BBC iPlayer)
• Hasbro knows all about selling to kids - and nothing much about talking to them (Jennifer O'Connell)
• Bus Driver Refused To Board Vehicle With Stonewall Gay Rights Billboard (The Huffington Post UK)
• I Am Going to Dropkick the Next Dudebro Who Tells Me Coercive Sex is Consensual Sex (xojane)
• Twilight is not feminist: it's female masochism (Guardian, Cif)

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