Weekly Feminist Reader

Just the headlines today, folks…
Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party: While the LDS Church’s leadership role in the passage of Proposition 8 may have been a surprising new direction for observers here in the United States, the Church has been instrumental in the organization of a world-spanning alliance of right-wing Christians and Muslims.
Overthinking It: Why Twilight Will Be a Great Achievement for Women
Stereohyped: England’s Black Women Overcome Pay Gap
The rise and fall of Rachida Dati: Born to a poor immigrant Muslim family, France’s justice minister has had an astonishing political ascent, appearing in glamorous magazine shoots and holidaying with the Sarkozys. But now pregnant with a child whose father she refuses to name, and facing a rebellion by the country’s judges over her ‘incoherent policies’, her future looks uncertain.
AutismVox: Girls and Getting a Diagnosis
Kay Steiger: Congresswoman Pregnant! (Psst. She’s Not Married)
The “Bitch” and the “Ditz”: How the Year of the Woman reinforced the two most pernicious sexist stereotypes and actually set women back.
Feministe: Tom Daschle for HHS Secretary?
Economy Hitting Women Hardest, Say Experts
Kristen Bell’s victim vow: The actress says she will consider any type of film offer she is given, but has ruled out ever playing the part of a repressed character.
Writes Like She Talks: Secret to NH State Senate female majority: it doesn’t pay
Kay Steiger: Wanted: Geekettes
Muslimah Media Watch:How to Use a Murder Victim: The Exploitation of the Aqsa Parvez Tragedy
Domestic violence: Your coworker’s dark secret: The topic is taboo in most of corporate America. But the workplace is often central to the struggle – as sanctuary, source of income, and sometimes crime scene.
Stereohyped: Few Black Mastectomy Patients Opt for Reconstruction
Local Church Starts “Embryo Adoption” Service: “Embryos are not simply human material to be used for medical experimentation, vaccine cultivation, or trash to be discarded.”
Counseling on alcohol key to teens’ sexual health
Job Segregation as a Cause of the Wage Gap Between Men and Women
Chicks Rock: Musings of a Latina Immigrant
Questioning Transphobia: After Duanna Johnson: What Next?
abyss2hope: Colleges Can No Longer Impose Gag Orders On Rape Victims
Post Bourgie: ‘Be Like Barack and Michelle. Get Married.’ And on a related note, go read Ta-Nehisi on why he and his partner chose not to marry.
Events
Washington, DC: Chicana art exhibit at the AFL-CIO, Nov. 19, 2008-May 31, 2009
Goshen, MA: ROCKRGRL Day at the Institute for Musical Arts on Saturday, December 6, 2008
Boston, MA: Be the Media! Mini-Conference 2008 on Wednesday, December 3
New York, NY: Eve Ensler Presents Offensive Women: Talk is Dangerous! on December 5 and 6
Missoula, MT: Off the Rack: A Baring and Daring Fashion Show to benefit for Blue Mountain Clinic and UM Students for Choice on February 7, 2009. Deadline to submit wearable art for the show is Friday January 16, 2009.