We can’t always blog about the stories in the news that catch our collective eyes, so here is this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of those we missed. They are links and blog posts that we found interesting, thought-provoking or newsworthy, rather than necessarily things we agree with.
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.
- OCCUPY WALL STREET: The Game of Colonialism and further nationalism to be decolonized from the “Left” (Racialicious)
- Battle of the Breast vs. Bottle Just Got Snarkier (Fearless Press)
- Sexism’s Low-Grade Fever (The American Prospect)
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The mothers abandoned to postnatal depression (Guardian) …and also this critique: Are GPs failing new mothers with postnatal depression? (Margaret Maccartney)
- British passport forms to get same-sex parents option (BBC)
- A blogger initiative across October to create awareness about Violence Against Women & to disseminate information about the issue.
- Mom, don’t read this (Skepchick)
- Myth Busting Monday – ‘Nearly 10% of all mental health problems are directly attributable to abortion’ (Education for Choice)
- Short open letter to Teresa May (Cruella Blog)
- Heroes, bumblers, and patriarchs: Fathers on Doctor Who (Global Comment)
- River Song’s chronology on Doctor Who naturally, SPOILERS! (io9.com)
- Amanda Knox acquittal: The persistence of Italian stereotypes in the British press (Giulio Sica)
- How running gave me the courage to heal (Fit and Feminist)
- A review of access to NHS gender reassignment services (EHRC)
- Men Photographed in Stereotypical Pin-Up Poses (Peta Pizel)
- The women problem: David Cameron’s issues go deeper than casual rudeness (Guardian)
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Are women paying the price for taking their husband’s name? (Big Think)
- Stupid shoes and the myth of “tone” (Pandagon)
- Oral Sex May Cause More Throat Cancer Than Smoking in Men, Researchers Say (Bloomberg)
- Picture this (D for Dalrymple)
- Love me, love my chin hairs (xoJane)
- Canola, it’s like rape (Large blooming flower)
- ‘Tiny needles were stuck into my fingers and I was electrocuted‘: Victim of Baptist gay conversion therapy describes how he was tortured at 12 (Daily Mail)
- “real women” (Hanne Blank)
- Tribute to Madeleine Simms
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The Pink List 2011: Tell us your LGBT heroes
- “Steve Job’s last legacy, Siri, the virtual female personal assistant, leaves behind a deep rooted sexism in the gendered way test markets show consumers want to be supported in everyday life.” (The Star)
- Only the lean shall inherit the political earth these days (Guardian)
- Why equality is a distant dream: Girls, boys and the real differences between them (The Independent)
And here’s a video of Sunday’s Block the Bridge, Block the Bill protest (for more information see Keep our NHS Public and UKUncut. (The cross-stitched/embroidered placard is awesome):
And also Channel 4 News:
[Image at top of post is of a sign on someone’s back, saying ‘Feminism: Back by popular demand’. Photo is by me.]