Round-Up: June 2, 2015

• The head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a new estimate that up to 6,000 Aboriginal children may have died in residential schools (APTN). The CBC has crunched some more important and sobering numbers coming out of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, and NDP MP Romeo Saganash, himself a survivor of the residential school system, made a moving speech in the House of Commons this week that is well worth a read.
• Helen Racanelli at the Huffington Post looks at why so few Canadian dads are taking parental leave, and how that can change.
• After nearly 38,000 people signed an online petition pointing out that his music glorifies rape and murder of women, Toronto’s NXNE festival has pulled rapper Action Bronson’s show from Yonge-Dundas Square (Toronto Star).
• A new infographic on the worker death toll around the World Cup in Qatar starkly illustrates the human cost of FIFA corruption (Washington Post).
• Judith Butler speaks to Cristan Williams about TERFs and challenges those who conflate her work with that of Sheila Jeffreys and Janice Raymond (TheTERFS.com).
• Nicola Griffith crunched the numbers and found that when women win literary awards for fiction, it’s most often for books written from the perspective of a man or about men. The more prestigious the award, the greater the likelihood that the subject of the narrative will be male. Check out Griffith’s charts.
• 14-year-old Latino boy Christopher Duran was ambushed on his way to school by gunmen and killed. Now, NYPD officers have been caught disparaging the victim and his family in Facebook comments (Mic).
• Frazey Ford has an amazing new breakup anthem, “Done” and the music video was filmed in East Vancouver. Check it out at Feministing.
• In the great news department, the comic book series Lumberjanes is going to be made into a live-action movie (The Mary Sue).
• On June 18, YWCA Vancouver is holding their AGM with a keynote by White Ribbon Campaign founder Michael Kaufman and a panel featuring Paul Lacerte from the Moose Hide Campaign, speaking about how men can fight violence against women and girls.