Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
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• Fort Bragg army wife told to stop breastfeeding – created non- 'business-like atmosphere'

– “This is outlandish – there is zero excuse for this in 2011.”

• What Can Your Traditional Family Values Center Do For You?

– “What would a world in which traditional family values weren’t marginalized to the point of obscurity look like?

I made a chart.”

• A Few Notes On Short Hair

– People really are weird about other people’s hair

• links for 2011-04-02 (racialicious)

– linkfarm

• Travelling Feminist: Jeanne de Clisson, Lioness of Brittany

– “She didn’t start out as a pirate, she started out as a gently born noblewoman.”

• Great Reading for the Last Day of Women’s History Month

– Just lovely links

• YA Mafias & Other Things You Don’t Need to Worry About

– Whenever 3 women get together, it’s a plot – when they’re YA authors, it’s a Mafia Sisterhood!!!11! (or not)

• Anita Sarkeesian on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl

– “The Manic Pixie perpetuates the myth of women as caregivers at our very core, that we can go “fix” these lonely sad men, so that they can go “fix the world”. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is really a muse who exists to be the inspiration for the troubled, tortured man. In fact we should talk about this whole idea of a muse which is the foundation for this trope.”

• We Heart: Wunderkind Wil Wheaton

– “the deed of the day is this Tweet he made while I was stalking–er–following–him on Twitter:

“I wish everyone going to the Charlie Sheen Pay Attention To Me Tour would skip it and donate the ticket price to a battered women’s shelter.” “

• Kristen Stewart: smiling is not an obligation, professional or otherwise

– “Stewart is often a target of a specific kind of body policing: the “smile, baby” requirement. When she appears on the red carpet and does not assure us with her teeth that she is simply thrilled to be reduced to a presence, a dress, a posture, she is often the target of harassment for her expression.”

• Creepy: Educational Tool or Privacy Nightmare?

– How easy have you made it for people to track your location online?

• What does feminist motherhood look like when black mothers are defining it?

– “Consider this, white feminist motherhood has been preoccupied with how motherhood has trapped women whereas black feminist motherhood sees motherhood as a political act of resistance.”

• Great Reading for the Last Day of Women’s History Month

– Some harpyness linkfarming

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