Round-Up: April 12, 2016

• Melina Laboucan-Massimo shares the story of her sister, Bella, and what needs to be done to address Canada’s epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women (New York Times).
• A bake sale at the University of Queensland aimed to raise awareness of the gender pay gap resulted in rape and death threats against the feminist organizers (The Guardian).
• “Please stop calling my life with a disability ‘inspiring’,” writes Venessa Parekh at The Establishment.
• Qasima Wideman says the contributions of trans and queer people of colour to fighting North Carolina’s HB 2 are being overlooked in favour of the stories of white queer men (The Advocate).
• 25 years after Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Melissa Harris-Perry interviews Anita Hill (Essence).
• Polygraph has mapped the dialogue in screenplays for 2,000 films showing a significant gender gap that worsens with age.
• Sayaka Matsuoka at Bitch interviews one of the few women sushi chefs in America.