If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already seen these items of interest encountered recently in my feed-reader or via twitter (please consider following some of the bloggers/tweeters). What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
- RT @PennyRed: Oh, wow. @adrianchen smackdown. Brilliant journalism, outing the man behind Reddit’s ‘creepshots’ – http://gawker.com/5950981… … …
- Guest post by Soraya Chemaly on @Feministe “What do little girls have to do with our wars?” http://www.feministe.us/blog…
- Perfect. RT @HarryJ_MP “@Wolfie_Rankin: “Go the fuck to sleep” Aussie Version #auspol http://twitpic.com/b3bowi ” This.
- RT @bluemilk: Really interesting interview with @margaretatwood about the future of the book and also twitter http://entertainment.time.com/2012…
- RT @pamspaulding: Four Ways A Romney Supreme Court Would Change The Constitution Without Amending It | @ThinkProgress http://thinkprogress.org/justice…
- Some Brief Reflections on a Pre-Email Workplace http://mikethemadbiologist.com/2012…
- RT @digby56: People don’t think corporations are people, by @DavidOAtkins http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012…
- RT @ScitechWA: Discover some of amazing things you can find in the night sky this month. http://www.scitech.org.au/feature… #Universe #stargazing #astronomy ^KE
- from @bluemilk blog: About the Prime Minister’s speech http://bluemilk.wordpress.com/2012…
- ” The fundamental problem here is that conservatives don’t trust women to run our own lives.” / “Some Girls Rape Easy” http://www.feministe.us/blog…
- Polanski’s victim is not a “sex scandal teen” http://www.salon.com/2012… Exactly – 43yo man drugs/sodomises 13yo girl is not “teen having sex”.
- Boundaries and rights | Teaching children about their right to bodily autonomy http://mothersforwomenslib.com/2012…
- Merf. Thinking is Hard.: There’s this thing people ask about cultural appropriation a lot and it confuses me – http://jhameia.tumblr.com/post…
- RT @BrendanAdkins: Disgusting and infuriating. As a #PAX Enforcer, how am I supposed to tell attendees that they’re safe around me? http://recoveringdk.tumblr.com/post…
- RT @mistyclifton: Ms Lachowicz’s liking for back-stabbing and poison in WoW raise questions about her “fitness for office”, repubs claim. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news…
- RT @Colvinius: What are we doing to our oceans? Desperately worrying signs in US island study: http://www.nytimes.com/2012…
- RT @q0rt: Has any male executive ever been interviewed about “maintaining work/life balance”? No that’s just a bullshit gendered thing? Whoopsie.
Other people’s linkfests:
- Mary at lecta: Sunday spam: porridge and honey
- Deborah at The Lady Garden: Sharing the love
- Geek Feminism: Linkspam: The Gathering (12 October, 2012)
- Melissa at Shakesville: Friday Blogaround
- Limited News: Weekend Long Reads
Disclaimer/SotBO: a link here is not necessarily an endorsement of all opinions of the post author(s) either in the particular post or of their writing in general.
Categories: linkfest
The 109th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
The 105th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up! 
Hoyden About Town 
Heh. I was just checking to see if you’d seen gawker on the exposure of the jailbait/creepshots troll, and it’s the first thing here!
It’s a useful datapoint when arguing against people who claim online harassment is done by teenage and young men who haven’t learnt social skills and haven’t had their first girlfriend yet. Also, not exactly socially isolated in his mother’s basement.
We at the University of Queensland Wom*n’s Collective released our online zine on Sept 28. The theme is ‘bodies’ and there are a variety of articles including an interview with a nudist, menstruation in art, and why victim blaming is wrong!
Charlotte’s Bodies: Taking up Space article was featured in the 53rd Down Under Feminists Carnival :-)!
I wrote a bit about National Coming Out Day. I also wrote about gender in sports, and how tricky it can be to navigate sport when you’re trans*.
What an academic who wrote her dissertation on trolls thinks of Violentacrez
The post is quite fascinating in its own right, but this bit really stood out for me:
Maybe some of the MSM commenters need to read this and understand why Tony Abbott does have a problem with women.