Round-Up: Aug. 12, 2014

• Justice for Renisha McBride. Anita Little writes at Ms. about Theodore Wafer’s guilty verdict; the unfortunate, victim-blaming AP coverage; the optimism generated by the verdict.
• Colorlines’ Jamilah King writes about the context of the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old unarmed black man shot by police on Saturday.
• West Coast LEAF is calling on the government to address cyber-misogyny, saying “cyberbullying” has a disproportionate impact on women and girls (CBC).
• Nicole Rubacha at Herizons shares the history of the Inuit comic book superheroine Nelvana of the Northern Lights, produced in the “Canadian Golden Age of Comics” during WWII, when American comics weren’t available in Canada.
• The hashtag #FeministsAreUgly was created by two feminists to talk about owning our own beauty, and it confused some feminists, but it confused MRAs even more (We Hunted the Mammoth).
• New data shows the “motherhood penalty” in wages has remained stagnant in the U.S. since 1977 (Think Progress).
• Makeup companies are, more and more, targeting men with the same shaming messages used to sell women’s beauty products, says Eliel Cruz at Mic.
• Mary C. Curtis at The Root writes about the challenges black women face when running as for office.
• Jenny Lewis’ video for her song “Just One of the Guys” was making the rounds in the blogosphere and on social media a few weeks back. Now Fiona L. at The F-Bomb has a review of Lewis’ album “The Voyager.”
• Reproductive Justice New Brunswick has a new Facebook page – check it out and “Like” them.