Round-Up: Aug. 19, 2014

• A lot of us can’t stop thinking about the ongoing injustice in Ferguson. The Root has a great round-up of articles and tweets that get to the heart of the issues at play.
• And at Ms., Jennifer Williams talks about why racist police brutality is a feminist issue.
• Media Matters has put together a quick video showing how right wing media criticize Michelle Obama by focusing on her appearance (Towleroad).
• A new study looks at tenure rates between men and women in a range of disciplines and finds “highly significant” gaps even when controlling for differences in research productivity (Inside Higher Ed).
• A New Jersey school has banned 13-year-old trans student Rachel Pepe, unless she dresses and identifies as a boy (Feministing).
• At The F Bomb, Vicki S. talks about how feminism helped her recovery from an eating disorder and changed her world.
• A teenager was denied an abortion in Ireland after being raped and becoming suicidal, in a case that “illustrates quite clearly that women are treated as little more than incubators under Irish law” (Feminist Majority Foundation).
• And here’s a new must-watch segment from John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight on the gender pay gap: