Round-Up: Sept. 29, 2015

• Last week, Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn testified at the UN about online harassment of women. We Hunted the Mammoth has collected the 13 most ridiculous things said about it by MRAs on Reddit.
• If you missed Up for Debate last week, you can read the interview transcripts here or watch the videos here.
• Sophia Banks writes at the Huffington Post about how trans women’s issues have been almost totally absent from this election campaign, including in Up for Debate.
• With two federal leaders proposing banning the niqab at citizenship ceremonies, it’s a good time to look back at this article from GUTS Magazine on the long history of white men making an issue out of the niqab in order to reinforce colonialist systems.
• And Dammit Janet has another take on the discussion, looking at how disingenuous Harper’s claims to care about women’s equality are.
• Nancy Meyers’ new movie The Intern, at first glance, appears to flip the social scripts for gender and age, but as Melissa Silverstein writes at Women and Hollywood, its messages are somewhat contradictory.
• A patchwork-y sex-ed system in the U.S. means that kids are learning some truly terrifying sex “facts” at school (Fusion).
• The mother of a three-year-old girl says she was banned from the Party City Facebook page for comments critiquing their gendered Halloween costume offerings for kids (The Mary Sue).
• Sam Ambreen at Left at the Lights writes about her experience tweeting as part of the #ShoutYourAbortion campaign to counter anti-Planned Parenthood rhetoric.
• The Advocate profiles 13 LGBT Latinos changing the world.