Round-Up: May 12, 2015

• The New York Times deserves massive credit for doing investigative reporting on the condition in nail salons, analyzing labour issues like wages and hours, as well as risks to nail salon workers’ health from working with seriously dangerous chemicals.
• The anti-choice crowd is campaigning hard in Saskatchewan (Dammit Janet).
• If whiteness is a social construction, who created the idea? And whose interest does the idea of whiteness continue to serve today? Chauncey DeVega explains the history and the current situation at We Are Respectable Negroes.
• Inkoo Kang at Women and Hollywood laments the cancellation of The Mindy Project and Cristela and what that means for women of colour in Hollywood.
• In the House of Commons, the NDP is taking the lead opposing the “tampon tax” – calling on government to remove the GST from menstrual prducts (CTV).
• Why it’s not cool to call people “overweight” (Dances With Fat).
• Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq has written an awesome Facebook post about aging, which is shared over at the CBC.
• Emily Hopkins at Bitch filed a public records request and obtained a bunch of slightly hilarious and also slightly depressing irate emails by men defending manspreading on New York public transit.
• I joined Deanna Ogle and Dr. Jenna Moccia to take over the podcast Caustic Soda to talk about sexism! Catch Part I of our discussion here.