Weekly Feminist Reader

Just the headlines today, folks:
New York Times: Till Children Do Us Part
Zuky: Ongoing Echoes from the Women of the Long House
Muslimah Media Watch: Hope from Whom and for Whom? Palestine as a Muslim Cause
Feministe: Woman Set on Fire Outside Strip Club
Awesome & Fabulous: “The Last Bastion of Acceptable Sexism”
Salon: The great girl gross-out
Nicholas Kristof: The Senate discovers women
What About Our Daughters: Dear Jonesboro Dance Team, You Are Not Sluts


Bitch: Taking Gender Discrimination to the Cleaners
Trevor’s Blog: ABC Squashes Ugly Betty
The Curvature: South Dakota Fails in Abortion Ban; Attempts Death by a Thousand Cuts
Women’s eNews: Court Groping Case Revives Jr. High Memories
Questioning Transphobia: Kim Petras
Bust: The Lonely Soldier
The American Prospect: Why Ledbetter Isn’t Enough
Comments from Left Field: Stumped Anti-Abortionists Strike Back
Sociological Images: Refining fine art
NPR: Justice Rehires Attorney Fired Amid Gay Rumor
Boing Boing: Make Love not Porn
Aunt Jemima’s Revenge: Is This Art?
New York Times: Wrenching Film Poses Marketing Challenge
Muslimah Media Watch: Rachida Dati’s Rise and Fall
Women’s eNews: Gillibrand Is a Gal to Nearly Gush Over
Racialicious: To Gloria: Ching Chong. Love, Amy Sedaris
Kay Steiger: Secretary of State or Sexy Crimefighter?
AlterNet: Repealing the Global Gag Rule Is Only the First Step
Global Comment: That’s DR. Biden to You
Pandagon: Romantic comedies slipping into caveman territory
Female Impersonator: “Pregnant women get the crazy all up inside them”
Art of the Possible: Is Obama backing away from overturning DADT?
NPR’s Fresh Air: Antony Hegarty’s Otherworldly Sound
XX Factor: For Women, Good Jobs Depend on Good Contraception … and Yet …
Jill Filipovic, Comment is free: For feminists, the time is now
TransGriot: Peruvian Neighborhood Watch Attacks Transwoman
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What Tami Said: Call for submissions: Second annual Women’s History Month blog carnival
What About Our Daughters: Best Buy Wants Your Daughters to Shake Their “Money Makers” and “Move B*tch!”
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