The Round-Up: Sept. 24, 2013

• 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).