• The F Bomb interviews Girls Like Us author Rachel Lloyd. Lloyd’s book draws on her experience as Founder and Executive Director of the Girls Education and Mentoring Network (GEMS) to write about commercial sexual exploitation of children in the United States.
• XO Jane takes on the “mental patient” Halloween costumes we’re seeing on store shelves.
• Kjerstin reviews Inside This Place, Not Out of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons as part of Bitch Media’s BiblioBitch blog series.
• Ileana Jimenez has a great post at Feministe about teaching feminism in high school
• The Montreal Gazette reports the Quebec government is spending $7 million on a program to fight homophobic bullying. This is part of the government’s Action Plan Against Homophobia.
• Check out the “Funny Women Project” at the Mary Sue, a “localized study of female improvisers” that “looked at how funny women navigate gender on stage.” 
• It’s out! Here are the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of all time, as nominated by Ms. Magazine readers.

-Jarrah