Weekly (ish) links

• [trigger warning] Racism in the criminal justice system
• Global Rich List - a display of the global income distribution. The median UK wage is in the top 3% worldwide, which isn't the whole story because the cost of living is higher too, but gives some impression of the scale of the inequalities
• meloukhia on patriotism
• [trigger warning] The Maguindanao massacre
• CO₂ emissions per capita by parliamentary constituency (spreadsheet). There's a factor of two difference between the highest and lowest, and it unsurprisingly correlates with wealth.
• A systematic weakness of psychology experiments - assuming that US/UK undergraduates are representative test subjects.
• More on "the default human" from Chally at FWD
• [trigger warning] A useful way to prevent rape (check the link in the first comment as well)
• Women challenge Irish abortion ban (a similar situation applies to women in Northern Ireland, which has different abortion laws to the rest of the UK - a difference the government is uninterested in fixing)
• When disabilities collide - why accessibility is a really difficult thing to get right, and why collective universal solutions are needed.
• [trigger warning] Another inappropriate punishment at school
• Symbols of disability
• When Allies Attack - another good piece on the difficult relationship between oppressed groups and their well-meaning but sometimes clueless allies.
• [trigger warning] ...and from abyss2hope, the difference between an ally and someone very different indeed.
• [trigger warning] Racism and sexism in the discussion of domestic violence
• Piggy banks and budget cuts - an F-Word article on who government spending cuts really hurt
• (from Shakesville) One of the first uses of tools by an invertebrate animal that humans have spotted
• Cat action movie