Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• It’s your last chance to submit to the Fifth Carnival of Feminists

– So go on go on go on go on go on /Father Ted

• So What If Mackenzie Phillips Has a Book Deal?

– “I’d like to hypothesize that what this is about is maintaining a certain, monolithic and vulnerable version of a rape survivor.”

• On Polanski

– “We have long prioritised men’s art over women’s safety, because there is a belief that a talented man, an auteur with a vision, might change the world, and to truncate that grand possibility with something as bourgeois as justice would be devastating.”

• Monday Reader

– Jill’s links roundup for Yom Kippur

• And Where Was The Mother? Hmh?

– “I’m not certain if I had gotten enlightened without a case like that one, where there are so many possible mummies to choose from! Because the case showed me how women are always partially responsible for crimes committed against their children by others. Even when the child is already legally an adult! Miraculous, really.”

• Being a woman

– food for deep thought

• Conversation with Ken Burns, Director of “National Parks: America’s Best Idea”

– a pointer to a great interview on the social history of the NP movement

• Once More With Feeling: We Already Know We’re Fat

– more bfacepalm/b

Categories: linkfest

Tags: blogging, Read-ems