Sunday Linkfest!

In no particular order:

Steampunk Wedding Cake

Byron and Babbage: A Calculating Story. If you're a Lady Ada Lovelace fan, they could use some letters of support when they air the PBS documentary!

Indonesia's Feminist Islamic Schools - Indonesian women stepping up to teach at Islamic schools!

Faith, Fashion and Feminism @ Gender Across Borders

No Sex, Please, We're Sex Positive @ Bitch Magazine

Teaspoontime at Shakesville:

Spanish law is very protective of people's privacy and our personal image. ... President Zapatero took his wife and children (girls, aged 13 and 17) to a recent official visit to the USA. The girls' identities are secret. ... But Zapatero and family got a picture taken with Barack and Michelle Obama. It appeared on the White House website, but it was taken down upon request. We have seen the picture in Spain because the major Conservative newspaper (El Mundo) published it, pixeling a fraction of the girls' faces. I'm not going to show you the picture to respect the family's wishes, but in order to understand what's going on now you have to know that they're fat, they're not standing very gracefully, and they're wearing thick boots and loose black clothes. As a result, they've been called all sorts of insults in conservative media, particularly online.

Pentagon airs criticism of DADT

What Tami Said: Marginalized folks shouldn't always have to be the "bigger" persons

How to apologize properly: an example from life. The actual apology can be found here and it really IS a great, productive response to criticism. Of course, you get the people getting all "but we should be colourblind!" and then we point out, colourblindness leads to Aversive Racism.

UK Border Agency uses pseudoscientific method for "race detection". Scientists and experts are, of course, horrified.

Gangster spam on Twitter

SciFemme, a new blog by someone who wants to read more scifi/fantasy by women. Pop in and say hi!

Appropriating feminism when advocating polygamy @ Cycads'

Stephen Fry watches a rare parrot, the kakapo, hump his friend's head.

Madonna is your dorm room poster, and further thoughts on cultural appropriation by awesome Sady Doyle of Tiger Beatdowm, @ Bitch Magazine

The Higher Lifetime Costs of being a Gay Couple h/t dmp

Article about Tanith Lee's The Birthgrave. I wonder if I could get it. I love her short stories whenever I encounter them.

Professor Calamity, founder of Steampunk Magazine was arrested for tweeting about police movements during the G20 summit to protestors.

bravecows has a Star Trek lit fic you should read. I doubt most of you will understand the cultural context of the Malaysian creole English she purposefully uses, but I do, and it is heartwarming.

Finally, saving the best for last, Schrodinger's Rapist, or, a guy's guide to approaching strange women without being maced. I'm in love with this concept.