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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- How To Break The Ice With Little Girls That Doesn’t Involve Commenting On Their Appearance (Role/Reboot)
- New Year’s Honours List features more women than men for the first time (BBC News)
- Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark (Dissent Magazine)
- Make poverty history: support the European Citizens’ initiative for an unconditional basic income (Ruth Jacobs)
- Where were all the lesbians in Queer as Pop? (Guardian, Cif)
- Hood Feminist (In These Times)
- On the Fallout from Woman’s Hour (Black Feminists)
- Cambodian police fire on striking garment workers (Guardian, World news)
- Men’s rights activists call for rape ‘accuse-a-thon’ to smear sex assault victims advocate (The Raw Story)
- A call from the midwife: Why I am resigning after ten years in the NHS (Independent)
- Living the consequences (feministkilljoys)
- 10 Ways That White Feminist and White Anti-Racism Allies Are Abusive To Me In Social Media (Gradient Lair)
- Transgender woman shocked after court officials put ‘takes all sorts’ note on divorce papers (Herald Scotland)
- Hollywood Movies With Strong Female Roles Make More Money (Vocativ)
- Words, Words, Words: On Toxicity and Abuse in Online Activism (Nuclear Unicorn)
- David Cameron’s internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep (Guardian, Cif)
- Surge in student feminism: Meet the new generation of ‘bold, hilarious feminists’ (Telegraph, Women)
- CeCe McDonald to Be Released From Prison (The Advocate)
- Review of the Year: Victim Blaming in the media (Ending Victimisation & Blame)
- Body as a Second Language: Navigating Queer Girl Culture on the Autism Spectrum (Autostraddle)
This week’s closing video is Letter to a Minnesota Prison (unplugged) by AJ McKenna. A transcript is available here.
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