Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
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• Colossal Cleavage: A Retrospection

– A great post I missed a month ago on breast reduction surgery. I agree with every word.

• Live-Blogging ‘Feminism For Real’: Invite & Introduction

– “For the next 22 weeks, I’m going to live-blog my way through Feminism For Real chapter by chapter.”

• A civil post deserves a civil reply…

– “But then it gets ironically interesting”

• Caitlin Moran and feminism’s ableism problem

– “This may be a particularly egregious example, but she’s not the only feminist to use ableist language or demonstrate this type of ignorance. As a woman with disabilities, I often feel ostracized by mainstream feminist media, which seems almost exclusively focused on the experiences of able-bodied people. Disability rights too often feels like an afterthought.”

• The Pregnancy Cult

– stompy-making

• Wierd Things I Have Around The Home. Wierd Thing #4: Intelligent Rubbish Bin

– “Self opening rubbish bin saves cripple.”

• Why the "Transsexual" vs. "Transgender" Debate is Irrelevant to the Fight for Equal Rights

– A must-read to clarify thinking on gender identity and expression.

• Convenient audiovisual demonstration of the difference between sexism on the right and sexism on the left

– Guys on the right created this mind-bogglingly offensive political ad – Guys on the left can’t figure out what’s wrong with it:

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