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 or pithy observations in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

1. Crazy Elf ?@TheMightyCE 7 Dec

   Found him. pic.twitter.com/FiQNpvVanD

   
2. Women’s Agenda ?@WomensAgenda 10m

   Awareness of what constitutes bullying and discrimination among Australian employees has improved over the last year http://ow.ly/rE6ny 
3. Laura Hudson ?@laura_hudson 27m

   The slanted status quo is why women are often perceived as talking way MORE than men when they speak the same amount: http://www.pbs.org/speak/speech/prejudice/women/ …
4. Drag0nista ?@Drag0nista 19m

   Walkley! End-of-year parent-teacher interview from @davpope pic.twitter.com/SeYiQJY0M6 HT @StanSteam

   
5. Annabel Crabb ?@annabelcrabb 29m

   What happens when we use less power, but pay more for it? Crunch on the way, says Grattan Inst report: http://grattan.edu.au/publications/reports/post/shock-to-the-system-dealing-with-falling-electricity-demand/ … @GrattanInst

6. The Guardian ?@guardian 3h

   It helps that Susan Boyle has made her Asperger’s public, writes Yousif Nur (@clubkicker) http://gu.com/p/3y4gb/tw 

7. Amanda Rose ?@hawleyrose 3h

   You guys, I just woke up from the weirdest dream. The Sydney Morning Herald had given a weekly gig to Peter Reith. ROfL, glad I’m awake!

8. Charles Johnson ?@Green_Footballs 3h

   Pretty hard to miss the racist subtext behind the right wing freakout over the photos of Michelle Obama and the Danish PM.

9. Justine Larbalestier ?@JustineLavaworm 3h

   For those wondering what intersectionality is read this article by Kimberle Crenshaw who coined the term in 1991: http://socialdifference.columbia.edu/files/socialdiff/projects/Article__Mapping_the_Margins_by_Kimblere_Crenshaw.pdf …

10. Yes, You’re Racist ?@YesYoureRacist 5 Dec

    For everyone who talks about “reverse racism” pic.twitter.com/Xh8TMXekcD

    

    Transcription of image captions:
    Panel 1. I could be a reverse racist if I wanted to. All I’d need would be a time machine.
    Panel 2. I’d go back in time and I’d convince the leaders of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South America to invade and colonise Europe.
    Panel 3. Just occupy them, steal their land and resources. Set up some kind of TransAsian slave trade, where we exported white people to work on rice plantations in China.
    Panel 4. Just ruin Europe over the course of a couple of centuries, so that all their descendants want to migrate out and live in the places where black and brown people come from.
    Panel 5. Of course in that time I’d make sure I’d set up systems that privileged black and brown people at every conceivable social, political and economic opportunity. And white people will never have any hope of real self determination.
    Panel 6. And just for kicks, subject white people to coloured people’s standards of beauty. So they end up hating the colour of their own skin, eyes and hair.
    Source of images and text: Aamer Rahman (Fear of a Brown Planet) – Reverse Racism

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• People with Disability Australia (PWDA) – Daily Media Roundup (email newsletter)
• The Lady Garden shares the link love
• bluebec’s linkspams
• Geek Feminism Linkspams
• Limited News weekly Long Reads collation
• Feminaust does a Weekly RoundUp
• The Early Bird Catches The Worm does regular On The Net linkdumps and weekly On (The Rest of) The Net RoundUps.
• Racialicious does regular link roundups and entertainment roundups
• Muslimah Media Watch: Friday Links
• Melissa’s Blogarounds at Shakesville
• Feministing‘s What We Missed linkfest and Weekly Feminist Reader

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