Friday Linkpost!

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• Girl Wonder‘s latest project is “No more Invisible Girls“. They’re asking for feedback and stories from female comics fans – “Raising the visibility of women who love superhero comics, one post at a time”. Really great personal stories from readers!
• We do our feminism with a side of Pop-Culture, and quite often something will come up which reminds us why. Here it is. This is why TV, Movies, Comics and pop-culture are important, dammit.
• Found on Sociological Images, here is an incredible 1915 newspaper advert opposing giving women the vote. You know who wants women to vote? Socialists! Mormons! Don’t push politics onto women who don’t want it! Think of the Divorce rate! Amazing.
• Back in May Ken Clarke spoke on a radio show about rape, and said that some types were “serious rape”. As opposed to the other types, including date-rape. (He’s the Secretary of State for Justice, by the way). Mumsnet did a quick straw poll and were completely unprepared for the response they got.
  (Found via Bidisha: “I – we – have tried everything. Rage, wit, sorrow, entreaty, rhetoric, statistics, events, pie charts, festivals, conferences, petitions, demonstrations, articles, activities, education, campaigns, art. We have given our life’s energy to achieve one simple thing: we want to be believed. The only thing I can think of to do now is beg. We are not liars. We have never been liars. We have not made a mistake. We didn’t misread the signs. We are not confused…”)
• Chile is in the middle of serious unrest, as the government violently responds to female student leader Camila Vallejo. She’s calling for an end to their system of elite education hardly anyone can afford, and terrible education for the rest. This has moved into brutal territory very fast – tear gas, beatings of children and students, and ministers calling for Vallejo to be assassinated. The whole country just shut down for two days as public-sector workers joined the students. “Commander Camila” has become the voice of the Chilean youth, asking for the right to education they’d been promised.