Round-Up: May 10, 2016

• Tristan Hopper writes about “why Canadian white people have so much trouble understanding why somebody wouldn’t want to leave Attawapiskat” (National Post).
• Kitikmeok women are reviving traditional Inuit tattoos tattoos (CBC).
• So excited that Elisabeth Moss will be starring in a new Hulu miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (Jezebel).
• GUTS interviews Leah Shumka, Executive Director of Peers, a Victoria organization that provides support to sex workers. Shumka discusses the stigma around sex work and why sex work is a feminist issue.
• Netflix is making “Dear White People” into a series (The Hollywood Reporter).
• Nova Scotia’s outgoing poet laureate El Jones has penned a poem recognizing the recent shooting deaths of three black men in Halifax (CBC).
• Discussion on the hashtag #WhitewashedOUT has drawn attention to Hollywood’s repeated decisions to cast white people in Asian roles (Colorlines).
• Ms. profiles the podcast First Time, which features people sharing stories about the first time they got their periods.
• D H Kelly cautions us to avoid ableism when we talk about abortion (The F Word).