On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup

Good morning! Here’s all the feminist news you need to kick off your week. 

• In India, an advertising company working for Ford drew up ads depicting sexy women tied up in the trunks of cars. The ads never ran and now Ford has apologized. [CNBC] 

• The female candidate in Omaha’s mayoral race has been subjected to all kinds of sexism. [RH Reality Check]

• The American Academy of Pediatrics released a big report on how children of same-sex parents are a-okay. [Autostraddle] 

• An interesting personal essay on what’s wrong with the term “person of color.“ [Black Girl Dangerous] 

• There’s going to be a Riot Grrl video game! [Rookie]

• Europe’s feminist group Femen is doing all kinds of edgy protests, lots of which involve being topless. [Guardian] 

• And now, the rapist’s point of view: NBC is hyping an interview with Jerry Sandusky. [Think Progress] 

• The Boy Scouts of America surveyed all its members about its gay ban. Here are the results. [Mother Jones]  

• A large new study casts doubt on the way our justice system tries to reintegrate people from jail to society: halfway houses don’t cut rates of recdivism, it says. [New York Times]

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by Sarah Mirk
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Sarah Mirk is the former host of Bitch Media’s podcast Popaganda. She’s interested in gender, history, comics, and talking to strangers. You can follow her on Twitter

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