Varnished Birds

Asylum for All Mankind: Westboro Baptist Church Protests, Gets Protested Outside Twitter

Apparently, God hates Twitter. Would it help matters if Jesus turned 140 characters into 280 characters?

Humane Society International: Haiti Response

If you’re interested in the animal welfare situation in Haiti, HSI is covering their work there. Some very interesting discussions and stories!

The Curvature: Reproductive Coercion is Sexual Violence

This is breathtakingly obvious. But as per usual, obvious answers are obscured by cultural messages.

Women and Hollywood: What Is This 1950? Women Are Missing as TV Creators

The numbers are getting worse.

The Awl: Inconsistent Pleadings: When and How to Say “Fucking” at Work (via abby jean)

Most immediately striking about the opinion is its unflinching and utterly logical examination of the ways in which, depending on context, profanity might or might not carry a sexually derogatory connotation.

SF Weekly: No Way Out

At the end of the hearing, it would be up to the parole commissioners to decide just how much Morris’ secret mattered, and whether he had earned his freedom.

Adoptees of Color Roundtable: Statement on Haiti (via Racialicious)

We bear testimony to the ways in which the intercountry adoption industry has profited from and reinforced neo-liberal structural adjustment policies, aid dependency, population control policies, unsustainable development, corruption, and child trafficking.