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When we weren't wasting spending time on our shiny new Pinterest boards, this is what we were reading this week:

• Libby Copeland on why fashion models keep getting younger [Slate]
• We Are All S.E. Cupp, the Conservative Pundit Bullied by Hustler says Lindsay Beyerstein [In These Times]. If you agree, sign the change.org petition.
• Remember that racial discrimination lawsuit against the Bachelor/ette franchise? Bitch contributor Jenn Pozner breaks it down. [Daily Beast]
• No one knows what's next for Community, but Arturo R. García has some thoughts on the show's depiction of geekdom and race. [Racialicious]
• We haven't heard it yet, but the new radio show Cabinet of Wonders sounds amaaazing. [NPR]
• A Gallup poll released this week showed that the percentage of Americans who identify as “pro-choice” is at an all-time low of 47 percent, while 50 percent identify as “pro-life.” Jessica Valenti wonders, "Does it really matter?" [The Nation]
• If you haven't been reading Bitch contributor Anne Helen Peterson's "Scandals of Classic Hollywood" series, this entry on Marlene Dietrich is a good place to start. [The Hairpin]
• Once you see the cast of Game of Thrones out of character, you can't un-see it. [Vulture]

What have you been reading/writing this week? Share your links in the comments!

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Before you do anything this weekend, ask yourself: IS THIS FEMINIST? Then check out these links:

• Help Hollaback! in the campaign to end campus harassment.
• On Ebony.com, Michael Arceneaux calls out the hypocrisy of Chris Brown and Drake's slut-shaming of Rihanna.
• Need to explain straight white male privilege to someone? At Whatever, John Scalzi puts it in gaming terms.
• Aisha Harris deconstructs Community's Shirley Bennett for Slate.
• Foxalive zine distributor is looking for zines and art by people of color. Read their call for submissions here.
• Remember how stylish Ed Wood was? Worn Fashion Journal does. Check out their Ed Wood-inspired photo shoot.
• Laurel Fantauzza, a gay Filipina American, writes an open letter to Manny Pacquiao in light of his public comments on gay marriage for Grantland.
• Laurie Penney interviews Mona Eltahawy for the Independent.
• Anna Breslaw takes on Tina Fey at the New Inquiry.
• Speaking of Fey (kind of), am I the only one who didn't recognize Margaret Cho playing the Kim Jongs on 30 Rock? See an interview with her on the role here.
• Kind of weirded out by the prospect of seeing The Dictator? Skip the movie theater and watch Sacha Baron Cohen in this video of The Gossip performing live at Cannes instead. Everyone looks better dancing with Beth Ditto!

What have you been reading/writing this week?

Do you hear that? It's us breathing a collective sigh of relief because Parks and Recreation was renewed for a fifth season! Time to go out for a breakfast buffet, Swanson-style. But first, links!

• Argentina's senate unanimously approved a groundbreaking gender identity law that allows people to change their listed gender at the civil registry and access medical care like hormonal treatment or surgery as part of their public healthcare.
• Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, has made a moving Mother's Day video asking people to support Second Chance on Shoot First, a campaign working to repeal and reform laws.
• At GOOD, Amanda Hess discusses how Vogue's highly-publicized ban on underage, "unhealthy" models won't solve its real problems.
• Niema Jordan is tired of the mainstream media "using black women for clicks" at Clutch magazine.
• Here's a critical-thinking HAES guide for watching HBO's Weight of the Nation documentary.
• Sam at It's Pronounced Metrosexual has a helpful list up of 30+ Examples of Cisgender Privilege"
• Mindy Kaling's show It's Messy has been picked up by FOX! We can't wait to watch!

What have you been reading/writing this week? Share your links in the comments!

• In sad news, we lost rapper, artist, producer, and activist Adam Yauch today to cancer. We'll miss you, MCA.
• Rosario Dawson and America Ferrera are cast in an upcoming indie film on Caesar Chavez. Dawson will play activist Dolores Huerta, Ferrera will play Chavez's wife. 
• Wow. No words for the Chronicle of Higher Education publishing Naomi Schaefer Riley's call for eliminating Black Studies. Read this great response,then sign this petition to dismiss Riley. 
• Kenyon Farrow writes a moving piece on Colorlines about why we should support CeCe McDonald, "'innocent' or not." Speaking of support, here's info on sending mail to her.
• Hey comics industry, here are some tips for illustrating wheelchairs from someone who uses one.   
• At Think Progress, Alyssa Rosenberg writes about Glee's continual practice of exploiting oppressed identities while claiming to do the opposite. 
• After that "Motherhood vs. Feminism" article in the New York Times, Anna North follows up with black stay-at-home moms at Buzzfeed. 
• Crunkadelic is skeptical about Brian McKnight's new "adult" mixtape. 
• Did you see 8th grader Julia Bluhm's campaign for Seventeen magazine to use less Photoshop? Get it, girls. Sign the petition here!

Here's what we're reading this week:

• Unite Agains the War on Women is tomorrow! Visit UniteWomen.org to find a march or rally near you.
• San Francisco is buzzing about the recently opened antique vibrator museum. These vibrators are featured in the new film Hysteria (to be reviewed in our next magazine issue!)
• North Carolina pledges "atonement" for forced sterilizations.
• Think Progress compares the racism of Lesley Arfin of HBO's Girls to that of John Derbyshire, former National Review columnist.
• This week was Toronto's Feminist Porn Awards; the Daily Beast asks the age-old question, can porn be feminist? 
• Radical, feminist band Pussy Riot is still detained in jail by Russian authorities.
• Tamara Winfrey Harris calls out Steve Harvey's book-turned-movie which probes black women to "act like a lady; think like a man." 
• Britni Danielle has some words for People magazine and its whitewashing of Beyoncé.
• James B. Golden remembers Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes and her musical legacy ten years after her death at Clutch. 
• Tasneem Raja reports on the deeply ingrained sexism of the tech world at Mother Jones. "Brogrammers" and "hogrammers," really?!
• Check out this Q&A with the women behind the indie film Farah Goes Bang at Racialicious (and get ready for the most adorable Kickstarter video ever!) 
• DJ Kuttin Kandi spoke with Colorlines' Akiba Solomon on her activism, fat discrimination, and the medical industrial complex. 
• At Vivir Latino, Bianca Laureano and Maegan Ortiz review Zoé Salicrup Junco's independent film Gabi and its representation of Puerto Rican women and sexuality.

Let us know what you've been in the comments!

Here's what we've been reading this week:

• Today is the 16th annual National Day of Silence, when students across the country vow to take a form of silence to call attention to the silencing effect of anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools.
• Raw Story's Megan Carpentier writes about what getting a transvaginal ultrasound is really like. 
• Julia Serano responds to Aviva Dove-Viebahn's post the on the Ms. Blog with "Trans Feminism: There's No Conundrum About It."
• A group of Nashville residents are filing a class-action lawsuit against ABC series The Bachelor and The Bachelorette for racial discrimination. Looks like the shows' utter lack of diversity wasn't just an "accident."
• Portlanders: This weekend, check out Rebooting Democracy and see Bitch's own Andi Zeisler and Kelsey Wallace on the "War on Women" panel!
• Portlanders: Next weekend, check out Disability Art and Culture Project's festival: there will be performances and panels of such topics as the intersections of race and disability.
• Did you read our recap of HBO's Girls? Colorlines responds to the show's story editor's racist tweets from earlier this week and how we don't need another TV show about a group of 20-something, white women living in NY. 
• Actress Vanessa Williams is unapologetic and honest about getting an abortion in her new memoir. 
• If you haven't seen it yet, this Funny or Die video on Rick Santorum "aborting" his presidential campaign is worth a watch.
• Bianca Laureano pens "An Open Letter to White People in the Sexuality/Sexology Field" at RH Reality Check. 
• Are you a female cyclist? On May 13 the organization Girl Bike Love is holding CycloFemme, an event to celebrate women bikers in Boulder, Colorado. 
• Getting pumped for the weekend? Allow us to recommend "QueenS", the newest video from THEESatisfaction, to put you in the party mood.

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It's Friday the 13th! We're not superstitious or anything, but these links are bound to bring you good luck (or at least some weekend reading material):

• Bitch editorial director and co-founder Andi Zeisler was on Chicago's WBEZ this week talking about...the b-word!
• The Guardian covers how female-centered television dramas are becoming increasingly popular in the UK.
• At Rookie, Jamia Wilson shares her story of how she came to stop dreading her dreads. 
• PBS is making a new documentary on the life of Gone with the Wind author, Margaret Mitchell.
• Vulture interviews Teyonah Parris about playing Sterling Cooper Draper Price's first black employee. And here's another interview with her for the LA Times! 
• On the Awl, Lucy Madison talks about How 25 National Magazine Award Nominations Went To 25 Male Writers.
• Hey girl, Rachel Maddow is speaking this Sunday here in Portland!
• Roxane Gay has a moving piece at The Rumpus on strong women and The Hunger Games (trigger warning for sexual assault).
• Eleanor Ray deconstructs RISUG/Vasalgel, the best male contraception you've never heard of, on The Hairpin.
• "A writers' retreat for hackers?" Yes please! Check out Etsy's Hacker School, a 3-month long program (with grants available!) for women hackers. 
• Rebecca Traister talks female friendships on HBO's Girls.
• Beyoncé posted a hand-written open letter to Michelle Obama commending her on being an "example of a truly strong African American woman" on her Tumblr. FLOTUS responded with an adorable tweet. 
• Speaking of Bey's Tumblr, Anne Helen Peterson has some thoughts on what makes it so compelling.

Still recovering from your Dinah Shore weekend? Here's some reading to get you caught up:

• The American Society of Magazine Editors announced their finalists for the National Magazine Awards, and their numbers are pretty lacking when it comes to gender diversity. On Feministing, Maya lists some great magazine journalism that should have been included—including Emi Koyama's piece "Trade Secrets: The Tough Talk of the New Anti-Trafficking Movement" from Bitch!
• Also on Feministing, it's the one year anniversary of slutwalk and victim-blaming is still not okay.
• Diamond engagement rings were originally insurance policies for jilted brides for having lost their virginities—Matthew O'Brien looks at how far the tradition has come in the Atlantic . 
• On the Ms. Blog, Barbara McCaskill traces the history of black women turning grief into activism.
• How many hours a week does someone need to work making minimum wage to make rent? (Surprise, surprise, 40 hours doesn't cut it ANY state!)
• Nichelle Nichols (that's Lieutenant Uhura to you) met President Obama this week and took this amazing photo. 
• Catharsis: Trans Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence is seeking written submissions from trans women who are willing to share their experiences of sexual violence and assault. 
• The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert makes a case against kids. 
• Ann Powers explores how Madonna and Nicki Minaj have to balance both feminine and masculine gender roles as pop stars. 
• Alyssa Rosenberg has a couple answers to the question "What’s Wrong With This Picture Illustrating Vanity Fair’s Women In Television Article?"at Think Progress.
• If you couldn't see Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue in San Francisco over the weekend, don't worry! Emily Manuel's talk is up on Tiger Beatdown, where you can find links to the other speakers on Vimeo. 

Tell us what you're reading in the comments!