- Yesterday a federal judge ordered Kansas to restore federal family planning funds to Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. Earlier this year, the state legislature stripped Planned Parenthood Kansas of part of its funding because it is upset the clinics provide abortions. [McClatchy DC]
- Illinois state representative Deborah Mell (D) married her longtime partner Christin Baker in Iowa last weekend. Congratulations! [Think Progress]
- A big, sexy girl responds to TLC’s new reality show about plus-size women, “Big Sexy.” [Clutch Magazine]
- Yesterday the California state Senate passed the Gender Nondiscrimination Act, which would strengthen protections in employment and housing for citizens based on gender identity and expression. [San Diego Gay & Lesbian News]
- On sexism and misogyny in geek cultures. [Geek Studies]
- On abortion in advertising. [Feminists For Choice]
- A drunk off-duty D.C. police officer fired his gun at two transgender women this weekend. [Queerty]
- Remembering the playwright Wendy Wasserstein. [Madame Noire]
- Was “Thelma & Louise” the last great film about women? [The Atlantic Monthly]
INTERNATIONAL
- A distressing piece on sexual violence against women and girls in Haiti. [Los Angeles Times]
- Bonn, Germany, has installed a meters to tax prostitutes six Euros (about $10) per night to solicit on its streets. [BBC]
- The wage gap between male and female managers in the UK has widened by 500 pounds, according to a new study by the Chartered Management Institute. It would take 98 years for women’s salaries to gain parity with men’s salaries at current rates. There is, however, good news: junior female managers are earning more than junior male managers for the first time. [BBC]
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