Weekly Feminist Reader

Information overload this week! So many links:
The HPV vaccine has been approved for boys!
What the Facebook doppelganger meme means for people of color.
Attorney General Eric Holder on the “macho bravado” that leads to wars.
Healthy sexuality is a human right.
Smacking down Asian fetishism.
A new court ruling says gender identity disorder qualifies as medical care under the Internal Revenue Code, and is therefore deductible.
Johnny Depp, rape apologist.
Jill takes apart the new study that says abstinence-only education works.
Tami on Haiti and the exploitation of people of color.
What women have to do with the recent dip in unemployment numbers.
Claire Messud on the “habitual–and primarily lazy–cultural expectation that male writers are somehow more serious, more literary, or more interesting.”
Did Bikini Kill change your life? A new blog archives stories of people inspired by the band.

A car-insurance ad equates pregnant drivers with those who text or read a map while behind the wheel.
Fuck yeah bearded ladies! Fuck yeah hairy armpits!
The state of Utah does a remarkable job creating a visual representation of one of my fundamental issues with marriage.
Visualizing government spending.
Call for submissions: Queering sexual violence.
A new exhibit on African American midwives.
The worst sexual-assault prevention tips ever.
Medine Memi, a 16-year-old Turkish girl, was found buried alive in a suspected “honor killing.”
What a horrible story: A woman was dying of cancer, but didn’t even know because she was deaf and the hospital did not provide a translator.
On the appeal of Precious to white audiences.
“We dis-serve women by only acting or objecting to sexual abuse in extreme cases.”
What if senators represented a certain population (people of a certain race or income) rather than a geographical state?
Two art shows, one of which features five women artists, address disability.
On the importance of white parents talking to their kids about racism.
How internet access shapes Saudi women’s lives.
Sady on Rahm Emanuel’s use of the word “retarded” and the problem with language debates.
As the charter school movement grows, so does the racial divide in education.
Alberto Ledesma: “Embracing My Undocumented Immigrant Identity”
The right to wear a headscarf and play sports.
“The assault against those who wear the burqa has continually couched xenophobia in language that expresses a faux concern for women.”
What Americans think they’re talking about when they talk about “socialism.”
“It’s a double standard because there are men with really beautiful women that don’t have great bodies, and yet nobody’s saying anything about that,” –Ellen DeGeneres
Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller calls Rachel Maddow a man — and maintains that’s not offensive.
Defense contractors are taking over international development work.
Jamelle has some context on the gender gap in college education.
And, finally it’s OK not to think about the Super Bowl!
What have you all been reading/writing this week?