Conversion therapy: she tried to make me ‘pray away the gay’ – BACP degrees Lesley Pilkington guilty of malpractice.

Children don’t need Brain Gym to spot nonsense.

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Section: Work

Thanks For Your Call – a blog of anecdotes from a call centre agent.

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Section: Art

“You were so pretty before” – Gender and its Implications within Modern American Tattoo Culture – The Alt Librarian/Irina’s paper.

Why straight people need to read gay fiction on Gay YA.

When a coloring mistake means so much more – DC Women Kicking Ass on a black character coloured white on a comic book cover.

LGBT “Welcome” ad rejected by Sojourners

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Section: Creations

Vulva Love sells things that look like vulvas.

Tiamat’s Child posts an account of a dream that reads like a short story that means something that – it’s just cool, go check it out.

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Section: Other People’s Linkspams

One of Dingsi’s: Gender, queerness, race, pop culture reviews, memes, fandom, journalling, other.

Password usability. Did you know “this is fun” is a more secure than “jskerv”?

A links round-up on e-book pricing on the Ebooks DW community.

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Section: Ladies, Ladies

Mary Sue – testing the boundaries – a post by LegionsEagle on Hooked-on-Heroines.

International Femslash Day is coming up again soon – Saturday, 16 July, to be precise.

Doug help us, even Cosmo noticed women like slash.

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Section: Corrections

Pyramus points out a travesty in Old English in an Onion article.

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Section: Random Recommendations

Line Boyfriends – The Social Network fanfic by BloodyGoodGirl.

Elfquest - the entire run of the allll the comics!

The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino – explaining what living with chronic illness is like, with spoons.

“Feminism”, a post by Holly on the Pervocracy website.

Growing Pains of a Male Feminist on The Root.

Turn Off the Blue Light – Ireland’s sex workers for sex worker rights & dignity, in answer to a campaign trying to criminalize their work in Ireland.

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Section: Calls for Submissions

Sugar Ninjas is looking for comics by girls.

Cleis Press it putting together a sexy lesbian werewolf collection called Beastly Babes.

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Section: Comics

Women in Comics – an essay series by Grrrl.

My $0.37 – Azurelunatic on censoring your own queer experiences.

Not Your Mom’s Trans 101

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Section: The United States Is Interesting

Giandujakiss links to relevant articles about taxes.

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Section: Fandom Activities

The Chamber – a collection of fanfic focusing on women of colour.

A short piece of fiction by Kati, which is a crossover of sorts between The Social Network and Fight Club, and kind of amazing.

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Section: Diets That Don’t Work

Dangerous, expensive diet fad – injecting yourself with urine from pregnant women. What?

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Section: Movies

Boston Area Rape Crisis Centre’s Dave reviews Sucker Punch. The comments are also interesting.