• Elizabeth Pickett reports on last week’s Ottawa march for missing and murdered Aboriginal Women at Rabble.ca.
• The Atlantic Wire takes us through the argument between Richard Dawkins and feminist blogger Rebecca Watson over his sarcastic and insulting remarks comparing the struggles of Muslim women for equality rights to Western feminists’ battles.
• Appalling story via Joe.My.God reporting that the head of a North Carolina cult has been arrested for allegedly murdering a 4-year-old boy for displaying “gay behaviour”.
• Jess McCabe of The F-Word UK blog has a new guest blog series on representations of detectives in pop culture at Bitch Magazine blogs called Murder, She Blogged. It looks to be very awesome and you can find her first posts, on Prime Suspect and Mrs. Columbo here.
• Lisa at the Ms. Magazine blog compiles some neat examples of culture jamming sexist advertisements.
• Yahoo News calls a 24-year-old running for congress a “youngster” (via Lance Mannion).
• Jeff at Alas, A Weblog, takes on the idea that women’s sports are boring with his look at the Women’s World Cup.
• Cinderella Ate My Daughter author Peggy Orenstein on the evolution of Polly Pocket toys.
• Pia at Adios Barbie looks at the race of dolls how white dolls can reinforce white privilege.

-Jarrah

About the author

Jarrah Hodge

Jarrah Hodge is the founder and editor of gender-focus.com. She has also written for the Huffington Post, Bitch Magazine Blogs, the Vancouver Observer and About-Face. Jarrah has B.A. in Women’s Studies and Sociology from UBC. She’s a fan of politics, Star Trek, musical theatre, and brunch.