Weekly Feminist Reader

What Tami Said is doing a series of posts making sense of Obama’s budget. First up, Housing and Urban Development.
Can this be real? Some sort of survey says more women would rather win America’s Next Top Model than be awarded the Nobel Prize.
Alyssa Rosenberg reviews Joss Whedon’s new show, Dollhouse.
Does your state take dating violence seriously?
Bilerico Project was recently shuttered by hacker attacks — glad they’re back up and running. As Lisa points out, this is something that’s a constant problem for those of us who write consistently about women’s rights and gay rights.
Renee tells you what you should know about disability.
An Indiana high schooler sued her school district for the right to wear a suit to the prom. (On a related note, see Miriam’s post, “Black Tie Blues.”)
New ads for a Schick pube-trimmer are… pretty awful. So in terms of anti-woman advertising metaphors, topiary trees are the new “not so fresh feeling”?
I am so sad Samhita and I missed GAYbiGAYGAY at South by Southwest! There’s always next year…
The debate over choice in Brazil rages on. And Old Feminist catches a New York Times headline fail with regard to the 9-year-old rape case.
Nisha lists 25 ways to use your blog and social media to create change.
Jill has been doing some great liveblogging from WAM.
How history is repeating itself on gender and the economy.
Hoyden About Town has a roundup of feminist responses to a recent article in the Atlantic making the case against breastfeeding. Rachel’s Tavern has more.
On police and transwomen of color. (TransGriot has a related post.)
Looks like there’s been an uptick lately in right-wing vitriol directed at Michelle Obama.
Reading increasingly bleak news of the floods in North Dakota, Melissa Harris-Lacewell writes, “We are all residents of Fargo now.”
Aunt Jemima’s Revenge remembers historian John Hope Franklin
On buttons as a tool for spreading ideas… specifically, feminist ideas.
The Associated Press claims more women are turning to sex work as they lose other jobs.
A really interesting guest-post over at Sociological Images on how photo selection informs how we think about cultures other than our own.
What are you all reading/writing this week?