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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• ‘Female’ Chromosome May Leave a Mark on Male Fertility (ScienceNOW)
• What will happen to gay asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea? (Guardian, Cif)
• UNICEF Report Finds Gradual Fall in Female Genital Cutting in Africa (New York Times)
• 11-Year-Old Yemeni Girl Protests Child Marriage on YouTube (Mashable)
• TW for images of violence: 36 Photos From Russia That Everyone Needs To See (BuzzFeed)
• Mothers of Other Trayvons Express Anguish (Womens eNews)
• Porn blocking – a survivor’s perspective (ORG Zine)
• TW Partial nudity, explicit lyrics, sexual content: This Gender-Swapped ‘Blurred Lines’ Video Is Freaking Awesome (Heroes One and All, Tumblr)
• Is Gender-Flipping The Most Important Meme Ever? (Junkee)
• Photographing Surfers Underwater: How Sarah Lee Makes it Happen (PetaPixel)
• How “Sex and the City” lost its good name (The New Yorker)
• Cop Steals Woman’s Nude Photos from Her Phone (Alternet)
• Viewpoint: 10 jargon phrases used for my autistic son (BBC News)
• Eduardo Galeano: ‘My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia’ (Guardian, Books)
• Seth Troxler, Nina Kraviz and what getting naked tells us about dance music (Mixmag)
• Female Genital Mutilation Figures Are 12 Years Out Of Date (Huffington Post UK)
• This anti-immigrant ad campaign is racism, pure and simple (Guardian, Cif)
• Why are women deserting newspapers? (Salon)
• USC Student Alleges Campus Police Decided She Wasn’t Raped Because He Didn’t Orgasm (TPM Livewire)
• Royal baby: OK! apologises to readers following calls to boycott magazine over ‘Duchess of Cambridge diet’ (Independent)
• Roxy promotes female surfers – but without the surfing (Fit and Feminist)
• No women over 50 allowed (unless it’s Helen Mirren) (Guardian, Cif)
• Video: Feminist Makeup Tutorial (PARODY) (You Tube)
• The babies we don’t care about today (New Statesman)
• Why Do Women Disapprove of Drone Strikes So Much More Than Men Do? (The Atlantic)
• No Menstrual Hygiene For Indian Women Holds Economy Back (Bloomberg)
• A Poem By Patricia Lockwood (The Awl)
• A South African town comes to terms with sexual violence (IRIN Africa)
• ‘Can You Have Sex?’ Guess Who Hates Hearing That Question The Most? (Upworthy)
• Singing the Lesbian Blues in 1920s Harlem (Ms. Magazine blog)
• France needs to start facing up to Islamophobia (Guardian, Cif)
• Russian court refuses release for jailed Pussy Riot member (euronews)
• Rape threats on Twitter won’t get women to shut up. If we shout back we’ll win (Independent, Voices)
• Twitter’s inadequate action over rape threats is itself an abuse (Guardian, Technology)
• Desmond Tutu Says He Would Prefer Hell Over A Homophobic Heaven And God (Huffington Post UK)
• Fuck The Master’s Tools (sunli.net)
• Woman speaks out, woman gets threats – this is my response (Freethought Blogs)
• Uh, Honey, That’s Not Your Line (New York Times, Fashion & style)
• What now for Britain’s new-wave feminists – after page 3 and £10 notes? (Guardian World)
• School bans girls from wearing ‘unladylike’ short skirts (Telegraph)

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This week’s closing video is ‘How six women did something incredible to save the Arctic’, Greenpeace UK’s behind the scenes look at the recent ‘IceClimb‘ of The Shard in London:

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