Round-Up: Aug. 18, 2015

• Kiran Gandhi ran the London Marathon while having her period, without menstrual products. At Medium she writes about her experience.
• Feministing interviews Melissa Gira Grant about the Amnesty International vote in support of decriminalizing sex work. And Vice’s Broadly has gathered some sex workers’ responses to the position.
• Three black trans women were murdered in the U.S. just in the past few days (The Advocate).
• A new British survey has found that nearly half of British 18-24 year-olds don’t identify as completely heterosexual (Towleroad).
• Imani Gandi writes about Martin Luther King Jr.’s lessons that relate to Black Lives Matter and its opposition by some “White progressives™.”
• Marvel’s newest superheroine is Moon Girl, a.k.a. Lunella Lafayette, and she looks great for comic readers of all ages (IndieWire).
• Ms. celebrates Frances Perkins, the first woman Secretary of Labor (under FDR) who shares the credit for implementing social security.
• Vanity Fair looks at new data that shows Hollywood’s inequality problem is “much, much worse” than you might think.