Friday Links

• Latentexistence at Where's the Benefit?: What's wrong with ATOS
• Spark in Darkness: On diversity and the judiciary
• Incurable Hippie: The worst kind of postcode lottery
• Vikram Dodd at the Guardian: 'Racist' stop-and-search powers to be challenged
• s.e. smith: Food and the Difference Between Knowledge and Access and On fat and spectra
• Den of the Hyena: The Damage Done
• Valentina Pop at euobserver: EU parliament backs female quotas for top corporate jobs
• Gwen Sharp at Sociological Images: Hidden Beneficiaries of Federal Programs
• Heg at Feminist Philosophers: Which of these things is not like the others? and Spark in Darkness: The Equality and Human Rights Commission fights against equality
• [trigger warning] Another Angry Woman: I think Julian Assange is a rapist. I still like Wikileaks.
• Alan Travis at the Guardian: Poor to be banned from bringing spouses to the UK from overseas
• Paul Canning at LGBT Asylum News: In UK, legal aid cuts will make LGBT asylum even harder
• [trigger warning] Sian and Crooked Rib: Media reporting on rape, the daily mail and Strauss-Kahn
• [trigger warning] Philippa Willitts at The F-Word: Yet another victim-blaming travesty
• Jenni at Bad Reputation: On Getting Hurt and Being ‘Pretty’
• Andy's Miscellany: Labour and principles
• Complicity: CRB Checks and Trans Folk
• [trigger warning] eastsidekate at Shakesville: A Slight Consistency