academic industrial complex of feminism

Everyone have a good International Women's Day/Feminist Coming Out Day? Check out these compelling links from this week, and feel free to share your stories below!

• Andrea Grimes at HAY LADIES! and Shelby Knox at change.org encourage us to demand an apology from the author of the horribly irresponsible New York Times article about an eleven-year-old rape victim. Over at the Rumpus, Roxane Gay speaks poignantly about the article and its connections to rape culture.
• Excited for the new collection Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, edited by Jessica Yee and featuring Latoya Peterson and Andrea Plaid? Us too! Read excerpts now at Racialicious!
• Also at Racialicious, Latoya writes about tokenism, the blogosphere, and book deals in "On Being Feminism's 'Ms. Nigga.'"
• Halle Kiefer responds to worries about the ephemerality of pop culture jokes on Splitsider.
• Sady Doyle of Tiger Beatdown writes about poet Diane Di Prima for Autostraddle!
• At Colorlines, Jamilah King reports on Cairo's Million Woman March, which overcame anti-feminist protesters.
• Also at Colorlines, Jamilah discusses the saddening need for the upcoming International Anti-Street Harassment Day.
• Still celebrating International Women's Day? Same here! Check out this list of IWD-related pieces from around the world, compiled by Bitch contributor Chally Kacelnik for Feministe!
• Beth Saunders shares the latest in bad abortion-restriction news at RH Reality Check.
• In good news, Renee at Womanist Musings reports that trans* prisoners in the United Kingdom are now allowed to dress to match their gender identity!
• At The Good Men Project Magazine, Amanda Marcotte explains how the more the wrongheaded Men's Right Activists sometimes recognize actual problems. Their solution? More feminism, natch! (via Feministing)
• Erica Payne at the Huffington Post talks about Wal-Mart vs. Dukes, calling the equal pay-focused case "one of the most important civil rights cases in the country's history."

Hello Bitch Media peeps. My name is Jessica Yee and I'm going to be guest blogging here over the next month. I'm a self-described Indigenous hip hop feminist reproductive justice freedom fighter.

I'm a huge fan of Bitch and was asked, like Nadra, to come and do a stint here from Racialicious. I live in both Canada and the United States and try to have my finger on the pulse of the social, political, and pop culture of both as much as possible since I travel across both countries for about 90% of the year.

Oh and I titled this post with the long-ass "deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism" because I'm really interested in having discussions about decolonization and feminism as it exists outside of the confining walls of college and university. It's going to get way more intersectional and comprehensive from here.