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The Round-Up: Sept. 24, 2013
by
Jarrah Hodge
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September 24, 2013
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Autostraddle has just started what looks to be an
awesome new series on queer scientists
and intersections of science and social justice.
Julia Carrie Wong at Salon looks at the cases
of Julie Chen and Marissa Alexander and what they tell us about how society “reads” the bodies of women of colour.
Adrienne K. at Native Appropriations reports
the Canadian iTunes app store has censored the word “Redsk*n”.
Aphra Behn at Shakesville is calling out Prime Minister Stephen Harper
for continuing to resist calls for a national inquiry on missing and murdered indigenous women, this time from the UN Human Rights Council.
In the Montreal Gazette,
Katharine Cukier highlights the gender dimensions
and hypocritical, racist double standards brought forward in the Quebec “Charter of Values”.
LGBT Muslims are working together
to build a more inclusive faith (via The Advocate).