Uhhh. WTF. These links may be especially triggering because they involve mutilation and sexual assault. I don’t even KNOW. [ETA: I'm moving the ones in question further down so they don't appear as excerpts on the front page.]
More on steampunk with POC. <3
Deborah Flanagan sounds like an AMAZING teacher!!
From Unas:
Prime example of male-centred thinking in the games industry. Call of Duty: Black Ops special outfits only works/worked for male avatars on Xbox Live / PS Home.
Chinese-Canadians and First Nations peoples: 150 yrs of shared history :D 
ULTIMATE ARCHIVAL JOY
A woman went in to get some minor surgery. She left without her genitalia. The doctor in question has… a history of misogyny. I guess that’s the delicate way to put it. 
To “punish” her for the car accident that killed her mother, a man began raping his teenaged daughter.
From the Other Patrick:
Women and LOTR
Elastigirl 4eva!!!
Twitter as a site of political activism? Neat! The only thing I’d add to this article about #ihadanabortion would be that this is especially powerful given that tweets are part of our national history, and that normally a history of elites wouldn’t include stories of women’s bodily sovereignty. <3 ARCHIVES HAVE POWER. <3
An 11-year old girl gives birth in Australia.
Girl told that she can either bring a boy to her school dance or come alone.
The tunnels beneath Las Vegas house an unseen world.
Black LGBT people are creating their own places of worship.
More on DADT. From Scarlett!
Also from Scarlett: More women are getting genital surgery to look “trimmer.”
A human rights tribunal will be judging the Canadian district that allowed a girl to be bullied
ALSO from Scarlett: Casting couch horror stories from two established actresses. The comments will bum you out.
SERIOUSLY? A rape survivor is jailed for not wanting to testify. From Tanya!
…and getting raped is a youthful indiscretion. Thanks, Etiquette Hell! From Garden Goblin.
Whistles translated! I gotta confess: my dad tried to teach me to whistle but it never stuck.
Cupcakes and gentrification: THE UN-ICED STORY.
WoodTurtle shares a birth story.
This list features 20 of the most influential female veterans in the US.
From the Other Patrick:
I was hesitant when I heard about Uwe Boll making a film about a heavyset superheroine, but also somewhat intrigued – but the trailer shows I should not have been:
OMG this is an amazing vampire story!!! “50 Fatwas for the Virtuous Vampire”
Hollaback! There’s an app for that.
It’s been a year since AmazonFAIL. ARE YOU READY FOR: AmazonFAIL2: This time, with pedophilia!?
Here’s more on TSA, bodily sovereignty, and security theater.
Tor.com is looking for an editorial assistant. ALL HAIL ONE OF OUR FAVORITE AND MOST ACCESSIBLE PUBLISHERS!
Bint el Nas is a resource for queer Muslim and Arab women.
Here’s a GREAT response to the No Marriage, No Womb crap.
Okay! That’s enough commentating on the haps. Tomorrow you’re gonna see a wicked long post from me on the indigenous blogosphere and the role of indigenous feminism within it. I’m really nervous about this, particularly because it’s my NWSA presentation! Soooooo send me all your smart thoughts and wish me luck. 
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CA is making a false dichotomy. Without the scans, it does not follow we will automatically be blown up. With the scans, it does not follow that we will foil all terrorist plots forever.
Look, the problem is that people who have to fly often to earn their living will be exposed to quite a bit of radiation. It’s not a scan a couple of times a year: it could be weekly for these people. That’s not good for health. Offering them an alternative that would qualify as sexual assault in any other context is a very typical bullying/abuser tactic. It’s a way of making you feel like you’d better do what the bully wants, or the consequences will be something even worse.
We’ve gone from Daddy Government to Abusive Daddy Government. And people like CA are reacting just like abused children, rationalizing that the abuse is somehow good for them, and Daddy’s intentions are all good.
Jennifer Kesler(Quote) (Reply)
“We’ve gone from Daddy Government to Abusive Daddy Government. And people like CA are reacting just like abused children, rationalizing that the abuse is somehow good for them, and Daddy’s intentions are all good.”
I find it very telling that many of the conservatives who think this way are also Fundamentalist Protestants who view God the exact same way.
This is perhaps best seen in the abominable Left Behind series, which Fred Clark has been nobly dissecting over at Slacktivist: http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/
Patrick McGraw(Quote) (Reply)
Forced dates reeks of sexualizing kids before they’re ready. Not cool. Let them bring a friend they know and trust – dating can wait.
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