Round-Up: Apr. 28, 2015

• Ta-Nehisi Coates has a must-read post at The Atlantic about Baltimore and the ways the state’s pleas for nonviolence fail to grasp the situation.
• The mainstream media’s portrayal of what’s happening in Baltimore has been pretty one-sided. Mic.com has collected 10 pictures you won’t see on TV.
• Soraya Chemaly at Ms. says it’s time we started talking about the gender safety gap.
• #thisdoesntmeanyes is a new campaign challenging the idea that any clothing a woman wears can constitute consent (New Statesman).
• Kristina Laban at GUTS Magazine reviews Edmonton’s Not Enough Fest, a music festival showcasing queer women, trans and non-binary musicians.
• Erica Cardwell at Bitch profiles two of Ferguson’s black queer activists.
• Laura Shepherd is telling her story of transitioning in a series of articles at the Halifax Media Co-Op.
• With Mother’s Day coming up, a BuzzFeed feature looks at the lessons we daughters have learned from our boomer mothers.
• PFLAG Canada has released a moving new ad mourning all the same-sex marriages that never took place (Towleroad).