Weekly link share goodness

Just what every uni student needs towards the end of semester… more reading! Here are some recent articles from around the web to help you procrastinate effectively. As with all links on here to external sites, they are views expressed by people external to the UMSU Wom*n’s Dept so stay critical…

There is quite a lot here as it is the first one. If you’ve been reading anything interesting lately, paste a link in the comment section!

• A post gender normative man tries to pick up a girl in a bar
• An open letter from two white men to #OCCUPYWALLSTREET
• Australia appoints Global Ambassador for Women and Girls
• Australia court in transgender ruling
• Australian military lets women into frontline roles
• Dear Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival: F— Off [NSFW (not safe for viewing at work/uni) – nudity etc]
• Earnings Report: Women need PHDs to match men with Bachelor’s (US)
• Get Your Antifemininity Out of My Feminism
• Getting a passport made easier for sex and gender diverse people
• Girls not Brides: A new campaign against child marriage
• Femme shark manifesto [PDF]
• Johnny Depp: Things that are not like rape [trigger warning – discussions about sexual violence]
• Police Tell Brooklyn Women Not To Wear Skirts If They Don’t Want To Be Raped [trigger warning – discussions about sexual violence]
• Sarah Palin’s Improbable Gift to Women
• Sex work held in contempt of court
• Sex-Selective Abortions: A Women’s Right to Choose Called into Question
• Someday, maybe social media will apply their rules consistently [trigger warning – discussion about rape jokes]
• Stop Using The Oppressor’s Word ‘Lifestyle’ To Describe our Lives
• The Consequences of “Feminizing” Latin America’s Drug War
• The Language of Selling Yourself
• The Porn Ultimatum: The dehumanising effects of smut [contains graphic pornography descriptions]
• Tony Abbott’s uni past gets another guernsey
• Tsk Tsk: Stigma, Shame, and Sexuality Series
• Which women are what now? Slutwalk NYC and Failures in Solidarity [trigger warning for racial slur]