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• Have you been reading Ladydrawers' interview comic with Alison Bechdel? Catch up with part two of three over at Truth Out.
• Women's Media Center writes about Ibtihaj Muhammad's journey to become the first women to compete for the U.S. Olympic team wearing a headscarf.
• In the "Something actually good occuring at Penn State this week" category, Angela Davis and Eric Stanley spoke about Stanley's new anthology, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. (Thanks Toshio!)
• Ms. Magazine writes on the importance of net neutrality—and how lucky we are that Obama vetoed it.
• Sady Doyle gives the Spice Girls a second chance over at Rookie.
• Dahlia Lithwick writes about and the old-school misogyny and the frightening new-school sexual harassment denial surrounding the Herman Cain scandals.
• Maxwell Zachs weighs the pros and cons of the new BBC series, My Transsexual Summer.
• We're still taking who-to-follow recommendations for Twitter! Leave your suggestions in the comments.

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The blogs will never stop!

• Feministe points us to a New York Times piece on the 7 billion-person milestone and the importance of birth control...
• ...and the Crunk Feminist Collective reminds us that the majority of consumption is done by the western world, not by "brown people" in population-dense countries.
• The XX factor looks at a NY Times article about the "decline" of Southern manners that completely glosses over the whole aspect of race.
• Racialicious tackles the problematic subject matter in Craig Thompson's new graphic novel Habibi.
• Check out Muslimah Media Watch's new home at the Patheos blogs.
• Transgriot looks at Barack Obama's admirable work on transgender issues—and celebrates 3 million hits!
• Choices takes some time to look at how the Mississippi personhood would affect everyone if voted in next Tuesday.

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• Jos Truitt over at Feministing, looking at the recent events in Topeka, Kansas, reminds us how the police really don't care about sexual violence.
• Think Progress shakes it's head at a Fox News doctor suggesting that a transgender youth needs psychological evaluation.
• Racialicious asks "why do so many TV fans hate black woman characters?"
• Colorlines talks with Sundance fave director Dee Dee about her experiences of coming out.
• Jarrah at Gender Focus recaps the Geek Girl Con panel featuring the Harlem Globetrotters Dream Team of Anita Sarkeesian, Leah Wilson, Kristy Guevara Flanagan, and our own Kjerstin Johnson and Kelsey Wallace
• Tiger Beatdown goes ahead and calls out the call-out culture.
• Transgriot gives TMZ a lesson on style (and it has nothing to do with clothes).

Let us know what you think in the comments.