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Links for your weekend!

• Bitch contributor Alyx Vesey explores trash talk in Azealia Banks’ “212."
• The postfeminist notion that female empowerment can be achieved through any choice a woman makes—no matter what it is—gets the Onion treatment.
• Feminist conference hoppers! The submissions deadline for both the Allied Media Conference and Geek Girl Con are both due next week! 
• Shakesville introduces a new kind of Personhood amendment, for "women and other people with uteri to establish our rights as autonomous people."
• At Hyphen, Thanu Yakupitiyage deconstruct's M.I.A's video for "Bad Girls" (h/t Racialicious)
• Today's the last day to donate to the Feminist & Queer SXSW 2012 Music Showcase, "Get Off the Internet!"
• Adrienne from Native Appropriations is at a loss for words after seeing stills of Johnny Depp as Tonto from the Lone Ranger movie. Yikes—it does not look good.
• In the wake of Rush gate, Jamie Peck suggests, "Let’s Stop Insulting People By Comparing Them To Sex Workers (And Sluts!)"
• Read Bitch Flicks' review of Friends With Kids and consider supporting women-made media by seeing it in theaters today!
• On the Shameless blog, Julia Caron uses a popular Tumblr post to illustrate which feminist messages seem to get the most traction online. 
• GOOD takes the VIDA byline inventory and applies it to Millennial web outlets to see how where the women are. The Pitchfork stats just might surprise you (in a good way)!
• Viola Davis is making a movie about Barbara Jordan! Yes yes yes!

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• Feministing tackles the media's coverage of Whitney Houston's death which showed another successful female artist's death related to drugs and fame: the age-old "narrative that as a woman, you can’t have it all." 
• The Athena Film Festival wrapped up this week: check out Huffington Post's take on the festival and the importance of women and filmmaking.  
• Chris Brown performed at the Grammys on Sunday: what does it say that pop culture is so ready to forgive domestic violence?  
• Are you/do you know any LGBTQQIA youth who love rock music? Check out the website, sign up for Queer Rock Camp, and read our previous Q&A with the camp's organizers. 
• The Mamafesto responds to the ridiculous absence of women on the congressional panel on birth control. 
• Don't forget that Black Herstory month is ongoing at the Ms. Blog.
• At Global Comment, Bitch contributor Chally reflects on normative love for Valentine's Day.
• This Bay Area event looks amazing! Tickets now available for Girl Talk: A Trans and Cis Woman dialogue curated by Gina de Vries, Elena Rose, and Julia Serano.
• At the Feminist Wire, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, & Kenyon Farrow write about who isn't calling out Roland Martin for his homophobic tweets (and who is, but doing it wrong). 
• Gawker calls Virginia's New Ultrasound Law "sexual assault" as it would force women to get "transvaginal ultrasounds" before abortions. 
• Check out Melissa Harris Perry's new show which starts on Saturday on MSNBC. 
• Slate covers one woman's experience of post-natal care in France. 
• Know any female journalists? GOOD has suggested a campaign to fight the growing gender gap for women in media by asking people to promote women through networking. Check out the twitter response: #promotewomen

Tell us what you are reading in the comments!

• CNN suspends Roland Martin for his homophobic tweets during the Super Bowl. 
• Civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due died at 72 this week. 
• NPR Fresh Air's interview with Meryl Streep covers her latest role as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. 
• Oklahoma Democratic State Senator Constance Johnson offered up a "spilled semen" amendment to the Personhood Bill to "draw attention to the absurdity, duplicity and lack of balance inherent in the policies of this state in regard to women." 
• Racialicious covers the new reality show, Shahs of Sunset, which follows the lives of Iranian-Americans. With the show's producer Ryan Seacrest, it is purpoted to be the "Persian Version" of Jersey Shore. 
• Ellen DeGeneres stands up to One Million Moms who have pressured JC Penny to not use her as a spokeswoman because of her sexual orientation. 
• Nichelle Nichols speaks out about what it was like to be black actress on Star Trek in the '60s. 
• Delta had the first all female African-American flight crew last week. 
• California Proposition 8 was struck down by the three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. 
• End on a Good Note responds to the backlash M.I.A. received from flipping the bird during her Super Bowl halftime performance. 

Tell us what you have been reading in the comments!