Canker Sore Sunday Linkfest!

[jhameia]

Not much to link to this week - I've been avoiding the internetz at large and I have a canker sore. I think I got it because it was really cold one night and I bit on my tongue while chattering my teeth.

So! On to the Linkfest:

I mentioned earlier this week the Vancouver Women's Health Collective opening a women-only pharmacy which excludes transwomen. For good measure, I shall re-link to a critique of it by Queen Emily, of Questioning Transphobia, currently guest-blogging at Feministe, in case you missed it. gudbuytjane writes more on this.

amandaw points out how easily journalism makes a press release about rapists put the blame on the victims.

Fuck Politeness disses people who diss Harry Potter. I don't like HP myself, but my goodness, some people take their dislikes to the severe extremities.

"No" is not a mixed signal! The mind boggles at why we have to keep saying this.

kiwi_grrl asks the question: why isn't the media paying anymore attention to Iran? Also, to people who think the hijab is oppressive, do the women in the pictures look oppressed to you?

Here are 66 panels from old DC comics which illustrate reasons why chicks cry.

At Racialicious, I was piqued by the discussion that Sandip Roy's essay on cultural artifacts created, and divabat has an essay up on being a PoC in the burlesque scene, which is not so very different from being a PoC on the steampunk scene, except with more drama.

Now that my linkfest is done, I shall return to tending my canker sore.

Comments

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

I don't like HP myself, but my goodness, some people take their dislikes to the severe extremities.

I don't get evangelical dislike in general, especially when people have to take it to the point of expending the energy necessary to write big polemic essays explaining to people why it's bad and wrong to like something.

(I'm also still convinced that about half the people who do that dislike things because they're popular, but that's just me..)

re: Iran, a friend of mine has been setting up and hosting proxy servers for the protestors to use to communicate through the government's bans. I'm kind of pleased to hear from him that activity there has actually gone up, which is the opposite of what you'd expect from the way the whole thing's fallen off Western news headlines.

[zindzhi.livejournal.com]

very good links.