Friday Links

• [Content note: stalking] Philippa Willitts at The F-Word: "I don't even know her name..."
• Left Outside: Class, expenses and employee theft
• Den of the Hyena: Wolves in Lions' Clothing
• reasonstonotleavethehouse: On In-fighting
• Another Angry Woman: What is the optimal level of clothing to avoid prison?
• [Content note: rape] Sian and Crooked Rib: Men like Jimmy Saville will get away with it until we listen to women and girls
• Garann Means at Geek Feminism: you keep using that word
• Forty Shades Of Grey: Women - just unwilling mothers in waiting

Friday Links

• s.e. smith: Pornification and Disempowerment
• Joe at Racism Review: Obama’s Severe Limitations: The White-Racist Context
• Alan White at New Statesman: The "physical and mental torture" of a disabled man in prison
• Jender at Feminist Philosophers: 7/7 survivor faces deportation
• David Allen Green at New Statesman: The legal mythology of the extradition of Julian Assange
• Edinburgh Eye: Magnetic Girls Talk
• Jane Dreaper at BBC News: Down's syndrome patient challenges resuscitation order
• Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance: Scientists, Your Gender Bias Is Showing

Friday in TZ+1100 links

• Same Difference: Will ‘Olympic Legacy’ Spell The End Of Inclusive Education?
• Diary of a Goldfish: Some Things We Could Actually Do To Prevent Rape
• s.e. smith: Missing the Point on Language
• The Fat Nutritionist: Food and exercise are not matter and anti-matter.
• [content note: various forms of child abuse] Edinburgh Eye: Children First
• Gwen Sharp at Sociological Images: Anti-Terrorism Campaigns and the Criminalization of Public Non-Conformity
• Ami Angelwings: The privileged don't need internet death threats, they've got better weapons.

And some other links on the Assange case:

• Penny Red: It's trigger warning week
• Carl Gardner: Cases of EAWs for rape & sex assault offences
(a short sample of other EAW cases in which a European nation attempted to extradite someone from the UK on sexual offence charges)
• Too much to say for myself: Rape is not

Friday Links

• Sian and Crooked Rib: The HPV Vaccine, Religion and Promiscuity
• The Curvature: Sexual Assault Victim Faces Contempt of Court Charges for Naming Attackers
• s.e. smith: You Don’t Have to Get It To Respect It
• Spark in Darkness: The difference between bad things happening and being marginalised
• Sarah Keenan at Racialicious: Sexism, Racism, And Swimming At The London 2012 Olympics
• Echidne of the Snakes: Today's Thought on Evolutionary Psychology
• bellaciaoliberta: Eugenics

Friday Links

• The Wall: Yodel threatened Twitter with legal action to silence online critics
• alexandraerinr: “Edgy” comedy.
• Complicity: What we’ve learnt about CCDP plans
• Jolene Tan at The F-Word: Thinking over "over-thinking"
• Left Outside: White Riot
• Zero at the Bone: Which kinds of bodies are respected?
• gudbuy t'janeOn taking offense
• DeeLeigh at Big Fat Blog: Study: Weight isn't the real issue
• Spark in Darkness: Privilege, Marginalisations - and which one's appropriate

Friday Links

• Transgriot: Back To The Future II Day!
• UK Polling Report: How not to report opinion polls
• Jack of Kent: Jesus and the Dinosaurs, and the gullibility of secularists
• Diary of a Goldfish: 10 Things Fiction Writers Need to Remember About Disability (1-5)
• [Content note: ablist and cissexist rape acquittals] Another Angry Woman: Sweden and rape: the myth of the feminist haven
• Diane Taylor at The Guardian: UKBA officials 'planned to worsen health of mentally ill asylum seeker'

Friday Links

• s.e. smith: ‘She can’t be poor! She has a cell phone!’
• UK Polling Report: A reminder about crossbreaks
• Transgriot: Watergate 40th Anniversary
• Complicity: Google data shows UK back as most snooped on population
• Aphra Behn at Shakesville: Today in Fat Hatred: U.S. Fatties Doom the World
• Left Outside: The Rt Hon Richard Benyon MP, Parliamentary Under-secretary for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Haynes, Service, Goldacre and Torgerson: Test, Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled Trials
• Mindy at Hoyden About Town: OMG Zombesity crisis, again.
• Another Angry Woman: It’s OK to like science, girls. It’s sexy now.
• Jessie at Racism Review: Visible Evidence of Racism
• Transgriot: Who Is Woman Enough to Participate in the Olympics?

Friday Links

• [content note:rape] We Mixed Our Drinks Rape culture: still around; still as grim as ever
• Helen G at The F-Word: Argentina's Senate passes gender identity law
• richie79 at Big Fat Blog: Chewing the Fat in the UK
• Neue Politik: Civil Partnerships and Marriage: What's The Difference?
• Same Difference: Coalition Failed To Test Fairness Of Spending Cuts, Finds EHRC Report
• Lisa Wade at Sociological Images: Are Our Politics More Consistent Than Our Opinions?

Friday Links

• eastsidekate at Shakesville: On Why I Left the Academy
• [content note: terrorism] Left Outside: Who’s responsible? You fucking are!
• [content note: rape] Too much to say for myself: Justice for survivors
• s.e. smith: What’s So Bad About Feelings, Anyway?
• Patient C: Words and Political Correctness
• DavidG at Where's the Benefit?: The Price of Hate #BADD2012
• The universe in powers of 10 (very visual, needs modern browser)

A few reports that Ed
Miliband will be attending the Gala this year. Now, even saying
he'll attend and then not turning up is closer than any of his
predecessors got, but will he actually make it this year? It's one prediction I'll
be quite happy to be wrong about.

Friday Links

• Hagley Road to Ladywood: Cliches of 2012 #3
• Writings of a Trans Activist: Gender statistic guidelines revised by HESA
• Zero at the Bone: A thought towards more productive social justice conversations
• Melissa McEwan at Shakesville: An Observation
• James Meikle at The Guardian: X-ray trial on asylum seekers started without formal approval
• incurable hippie at Where's the Benefit?: 32 deaths a week
• s.e. smith: Choices Do Not Occur In a Vacuum
• Sindelókë: Of Dogs and Lizards: A Parable of Privilege

Friday Links

• Jessamyn Smith at Geek Feminism: What she really said: Fighting sexist jokes the geeky way!
• s.e. smith: We Are More Fascinated By the Stars Than the Oceans
• CP Reece at The F-Word: Smashing our heads on the glass ceiling: what Public Service in the North does to intelligent women
• SharonBrennan at Where's the Benefit?: Budget 2012: the disabled marginalised yet again, with worse to come?
• Diary of a Goldfish: The Undebateable Undateables
• Sparky at Womanist Musings: The Realities of Heterosexism
• damali ayo at Racialicious: What Race Is Your Dog?
• The Curvature: Arrested at Hospital for Demanding Medical Care, Woman Dies in Jail Cell
• Den of the Hyena: Let Them Eat Cake

Friday Links

• s.e. smith: Armchair Diagnosis: Just Don’t
• Sarah Brown's Blog: Towards a Less Simplistic Perception of Gender
• China Miéville at Racialicious: When Did Bigotry Get So Needy?
• Another Angry Woman: Gaslighting, power and differences of opinion
• Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello at Intersex Roadshow: How Common is Intersex Status?
• Lisa Wade at Sociological Images: EU Recalls Racist Propaganda
• Helen G at The F-Word: Landmark move towards same-sex marriage a step closer

Friday Links

• Philippa Willitts at The F-Word: Are you a neighbour from hell? You might be surprised.
• Forty Shades Of Grey: Life on benefits
• s.e. smith: On cooking alone
• Renee at Womanist Musings: Men, Sexism and Faux Oppression
• [trigger warning] A radical transfeminist: The Ethical Prude: Imagining An Authentic Sex-Negative Feminism
• tigtog at Hoyden About Town: Quote OTD: Freedom, Rights and Accountability – the denialism of fools and knaves
• Laurie Penny at New Statesman: So, it turns out feminism is a CIA plot to undermine the left
• Conn Mac Gabhann at Left Foot Forward: Anti-Traveller attitudes continue to go unchallenged in Britain
• [trigger warning] nominatissima:Consent, Disability, & Sexual Abuse
• Spark in Darkness: Sympathise, don't empathise
• [trigger warning] Another Angry Woman: Rape and “no crimes”: this is a fucking travesty
• Jolene Tan at The F-Word: Domestic worker rights under threat - again
• s.e. smith: In the Garden: Flowers!

Friday Links

• Philippa Willitts at The F-Word: Shocked headline as fat disabled woman has fun
• Yet Another Kiri Bloggish Thing Waitwaitwait
• [trigger warning] Melissa McEwan at Shakesville: Today in Rape Culture and Not Crazy
• s.e. smith: Universal Design Does Not Mean Ugly Design
• DavidG at Where's the Benefit?: The Magical Thinking at DWP Gets Worse
• Irregular Webcomic: Sharing Art
• Sarah Brown's Blog: Hunting Trans People For Sport, Profit, Charity and Teh Lulz

Friday Links

• Writings of a Trans Activist: British media in a tizzy over pregnant man
• DavidG at Where's the Benefit?: Magical Thinking and Miracle Cures
• A Bee of a Certain Age: Defending the kyriarchy
• Jender at Feminist Philosophers: “If you see something, do something”
• TransGriot: WTF? Whitney Ain't Even In Her Grave Yet...
• s.e. smith: Job ‘Support’ Programmes and Enforced Poverty
• Zero at the Bone: Two kinds of whiteness: reimagining white people in fantasy and science fiction
• Annalytica at Lashings of Ginger Beer: CBT and me

Friday Links

• The Intersex Roadshow: On Sex/Gender Checkboxes
• Anjum Klair at TouchStone: So there is no shortage of jobs?
• tigtog at Hoyden About Town: Thought of the day: when does bigotry occur?
• [trigger warning] Blue Milk: The cult of masculinity and sexual violence in war
• Garland Grey at Tiger Beatdown: Personal Decisions, Global Catastrophes: Capitalism is Not Inherently Friendly to Human Life
• Complicity: Leveson Inquiry submission by Trans Media Watch
• Paul Krugman: Different Slopes for Different Folks

Friday Links

• Spark in Darkness: Ok, enough, I have to rant about this messed up economic bullshit
• [trigger warning] HarpyMarx: Children are unbeatable
• Libertarian Lou's Blog: Three faces of feminism: Louise Mensch, Laurie Penny, and Jodie Marsh
• Zero at the Bone: Emotional performance
• Tulip Siddiq and Peter Allen at Left Foot Forward: Too many councillors leaving leaves councils too homogeneous
• Patrick Wintour at the Guardian: Coalition overturns Lords amendments on welfare and bans further dissent
• UK Polling Report: The problem with “Do you agree or disagree with this statement” questions

...and after the last few months, something to make a change: Famous Paintings Improved by Cats

Friday Links

• HarpyMarx: Work Capability Assessment and the ATOS experience
• [trigger warning] Sian and Crooked Rib: It is never her fault
• [trigger warning] A Radical TransFeminist: Under Duress: Agency, Power and Consent, Part Two: “Yes”
• Trans Youth Takes On World: Gender recognition under threat in UK universities and Update on the HESA gender statistics affair
• Echidne of the Snakes: Internet Misogyny For The Day
• Lisa at Where's the Benefit?: And in the news...

Friday Links

• s.e. smith: Beyond the Binary: But What Does It All Mean? I Don’t Get It!
• Complicity: Fining so-called “no-show” patients is a bad idea
• [Helen G at The F-Word: Online campaign to stop enforced sterilisation of TS/TG and gender variant people in Sweden
• Philip N Cohen at Sociological Images: Undoing Gender Math Stereotypes
• Latentexistence at Where's the Benefit?: Just a form - some benefit myths
• Zero at the Bone: Personal space

Friday Links

• s.e. smith: No Disability at the Final Frontier: Science Fiction, Cures, and Eliminationism and Truly Costing A Home-Cooked Meal
• Diary of a Goldfish: The Welfare Reform Bill: What's Wrong with Personal Independence Payments?
• [trigger warning] Ministry of Truth: Rape and CJS/CPS performance (revised)
• Obesity Timebomb: The YMCA's Body Confidence campaign and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image
• Latentexistence at Where's the Benefit?: Government filthy tricks subvert parliamentary process
• [trigger warning] A Radical TransFeminist: Under Duress: Agency, Power and Consent, Part One: “No”