• On the milestone of the Earth’s population hitting 7 billion, Zohra at The F Word UK asks us to imagine if women in all countries had the right to choose.
• Halloween is just over, but Mother Jones deconstructs the ways we celebrate, looking at union-busting costumes, child-labour candy, the environmental impact of canned pumpkin, and more.
• Revisiting a Sociological Images Halloween post from 2009, can we at least agree it’s not okay to dress your pets up like racial caricatures?
• I’m excited to be hitting up the Vancouver book launch for Jaclyn Friedman’s “What You Really Want” this weekend. In the meantime, check out Friedman’s interview with Salon (via Feministe).
• The Mary Sue shows the silliness behind some 1938 dating tips.
• The Geek Feminism blog has a guest post from an Aerospace PhD student who reflects on creating community for women in engineering.
• Check out this Queerty list of 6 LGBT seniors you should know.
• Colorlines looks at the disproportionate impact of breast cancer on women of colour.

-Jarrah