Weekly Feminist Reader

Happy Father’s Day! Read Barack Obama’s essay on fatherhood in Parade, Tracy Clark-Flory on where feminism meets Father’s Day, and a powerful piece on the U.S. deporting fathers.
Against Facebook’s gender binary.
Tied Up in Tehran: A Metaphor
Terry O’Neill is the new president of NOW. Veronica has the details.
A Chicago gay bar bans bachelorette parties.
A magazine photoshops extra pounds onto Beth Ditto.
How can young women develop as leaders, given all of the competing negative stereotypes about women in the workplace?
“Um, why weren’t people changing the color of their avatars after the Zimbabwe election?”
An update from the National Network of Abortion Funds organizing summit.
A gay postman in the UK won a lawsuit against his manager, who discriminated against him on the basis of his sexuality.
Shark-Fu on John Ensign’s hypocritical violations of the “sanctity of marriage.”

Muslimah Media Watch on women’s (and the headscarf’s) role in the uprising in Iran.
How pain and discomfort are gendered.
Women in Chicago fight back against harassment on public transportation.
The NY Times profiles Yinka Shonibare, “a disabled black artist who continuously challenges assumptions and stereotypes — “That’s the point of my work really,” he said — Mr. Shonibare makes art that is sumptuously aesthetic and often wickedly funny. When he deals with pithy matters like race, class, disability, colonialism and war, he does so deftly and often indirectly.”
On The Hangover: “…every time someone that wasn’t the wacky white dude leads appears on screen (i.e. a black woman, an asian man, a black man, an “ugly” woman, a married woman, an ambigously middle-eastern dude, the elderly–all in glaring stereotype) their very-other presence is presented as a gag.”
The problem with the “Fallen Princesses” art photography project.
The importance of Medicare in providing health care for women.
Bacardi has some awful, sexist summer advertising.
The naked, black, female body: a recurring theme in advertising.
A man defends his rape of a 13-year-old by saying she was “no virgin.”
Polling places around the U.S. are still inaccessible to many Americans.
A documentary on transgender Iranians.
How coverage of the “marriage crisis” only hurts black women.
Reviewing MTV’s “16 and Pregnant.”
What are you all reading/writing this week?