The Round-Up: May 6, 2014

• At Bitch, Nijla Mu’min reviews the new movie Belle, which she says skillfully incorporates race, class and gender analysis into its historical drama.
• Lauren M. at The F Bomb talks about how we need to change the dialogue around women’s sports to properly recognize the efforts of female athletes.
• Katie McDonald at Salon says FOX News’ LGBTQ problem goes beyond Shepard Smith; the entire station seems to be a “cesspool of reflexive bigotry”.
• A new group at the University of Quebec at Montreal is aiming to foster the active presence of women in philosophy. Check out their site, Fillosophie.
• Last week the Vancouver Parks Board unanimously passed an awesome report from their Trans* and Gender Variant Working Group, containing approximately 80 recommendations to make parks and recreation spaces more trans*-inclusive (Vancouver Sun).
• At Colorlines, Rinku Sen looks at how today’s migration problems are connected to yesterday’s economic and foreign policy.
• Women and Hollywood shares the less-than-impressive gender breakdown in the Tony Award nominations.
• Jamilah Lemieux responds to the recent SNL jokes about slave rape (Ebony).
• Judith Butler is interviewed at The Trans Advocate and specifically addresses how some of her theories have been used to support TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) arguments.