- Last week, ESPN sportscaster Jemele Hill, who is black, shared on Twitter a horrifically racist and sexist letter that she received from a viewer. It’s pretty fucking awful. [Clutch Magazine, Huffington Post]
- I don’t even want to know about a “bulimia machine.” [Jezebel]
- Alabama State Rep. Patricia Todd, who is openly gay, introduced a bill that would repeal the inclusion of an anti-gay curriculum, which teaches that homosexuality is “unacceptable,” in the state’s public schools. [Human Rights Campaigns]
- Students involved in the Steubenville “rape crew” — who raped an unconscious teen girl, took pictures, and bragged about it in a chilling video — are now seeing their college prospects falter. [Atlantic Wire]
- Kristine Sink, a corrections officer at an Iowa prison, is speaking out about how prisoners are allowed to watch violent, sexually explicit movies. [Yahoo]
- “Ugly” women work harder, according to a wildly sexist interpretation of data. [The Jane Dough]
- Breastfeeding moms — aka “lactivists” — held a nationwide nurse-in at Hollister stores in support of a woman who was asked to leave a Houston store because she was nursing. [Buzzfeed]
- On Slate.com’s Dear Prudence advice columnist and her rape denialism. [Feministing]
- Blogger Carolyn Castiglia on why the media needs to cool it with lumping all single moms together. [Babble]
INTERNATIONAL
- On Malaysian child brides. [Muslimah Media Watch]
- UK Labour Party MP Diane Abbot has suggested that feminism may have had a negative effect on the families of Britain. [Telegraph UK]
- And a British psychotherapist who specializes in young women says the “girl power generation” is struggling to settle down in ways women traditionally have done. [Guardian UK]
- An Australian bar has removed cocktails from the menu called Winey Bitch and Red-Headed Slut after complaints. [Courier Mail AU]
- Actresses are dominating in the BAFTA’s Rising Star 2013 nominees. [Harper's Bazaar UK]
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