One Billion Rising

Happy V-Day Bitch Lovers!

• This V-Day, show your solidarity in ending gender-based violence by joining One Billion Rising – a worldwide anti-rape protest. To find a rising happening near you today, take a look at the handy dandy event finder. [One Billion Rising]
• Maybe being ‘single’ today is actually a site of radical queer resistance. Check out this post-colonial/queer Single’s Manifesto, it might make you not feel so bad. [Queer Libido]
• Meanwhile, in non V-Day related news, college health plans are finally starting to cover transition related surgeries.[NY Times]
• It’s not every day giant corporations such as Victoria’s Secret get hijacked by savvy feminist groups in an anti-rape campaign, so we felt it necessary to interview the brains behind operation Pink Loves Consent. Bitch web editor Sarah Mirk interviews Baltimore's FORCE collective. [Bitch Media]
• The beginning of a sexual revolution? Or more heteronormative, sexist shenanigans? Guess we should have seen this one coming - Facebook’s latest app: Bang With Friends. [DNA India]
• Judith Butler’s talk last week at Brooklyn College about using boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) to protest the state of Israel’s policies toward Palestine spurs massive controversy. [The Feminist Wire]
• Good grief. North Carolina is actually considering passing a bill that could send women to prison for going topless in public.  [ABC News]
• To end on a more hopeful note, according to The Guardian, women across the globe are joining forces in unprecedented ways to combat sexual violence. [The Guardian]

That's all for today friends! Let us know if we missed anything in the comments.