Round-Up: Sep. 22, 2015

• Alberta’s first minimum wage hike under the new NDP government takes effect October 1. Jason Foster at Vue Weekly looks at the real impact that will have.
• Audra Williams has a great piece in The National Post about why “gender-neutral” clothing still seems to demean femininity by only promoting more “boys'” things for girls and not the reverse.
• Lauren Simmons writes in GUTS Magazine about the work Women in Toronto Politics is doing to amplify women’s voices and shift the conversations in municipal politics.
• When and how can we talk to kids about consent and respect for theirs and each other’s bodies? Mary Cathryn Ricker of the American Federation of Teachers shares her thoughts at Ms.
• Why do white people feel oppressed, when clearly they still benefit from racial privilege? In a great article at VICE, Toure explores the psychology upholding systemic racism and what white people need to do differently.
• Joseph Cain at the Mary Sue has an epic takedown of straight, white guys who accuse newer media of “pandering” to women, LGBTQ people and people of colour.
• Maverick Smith at Shameless Magazine writes about issues with trans people being pressured to conform to cissexist beauty standards.
• Tracey Ross praises the now 30-year-old The Golden Girls as “still the most progressive show on television” (Medium).