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News post by Hannah Siobhan ... on May 15, 2013 - 9:49am; tagged Angelina Jolie, DGR, gender policing, mastectomy, the Netherlands, twerking, Uni-Ball.

Happy hump-day! Here's some of the feminist news we've been reading at Bitch HQ.  

  • For those who can't get enough of Angelina's mastectomy, here's an article on why breast cancer is at the center of a supreme court battle. [Policymic]
  • Pen company Uni-Ball's latest ad perpetuates the image of Black men as "criminal, hyper-sexed, uneducated and sub-human." [Newsone]
  • How the expansion of surveillance techniques in the Netherlands is compromising civil liberties. [Space Invaders]
  • Oof. Deep Green Resistance, a prominent ecofeminist organization, takes a transphobic stance. [Decolonizing Yoga]
  • Twerking at school: the cultural demands on black students in sororities. [Racialicious]
  • Be a woman right: how gender presentation is sometimes policed within trans communities. [Autostraddle]

Stay tuned!

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Nobody's Baby Now

Love / Shove post by Kelsey Wallace on November 7, 2008 - 4:35pm; tagged birth control, fathers, mothers, parenting, the Netherlands.
The Netherlands may be known throughout the world for their quaint wooden shoes and their progressive drug and prostitution laws, but soon they might be known for something else: forced sterilization of women. You read me right, a draft bill currently before the Dutch parliament will, if passed, force women deemed to be "unfit mothers" to take oral contraception for a period of two years.
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