Georgia passes immigration bill similar to Arizona’s
Los Angeles Times: “Police would be given the power to check the immigration status of ‘criminal’ suspects and many businesses would be required to do the same with potential hires.”

France’s Anti-Muslim Burqa Ban Goes Into Effect
ColorLines: “Veiled women in France now risk facing a fine of €150 ($215) and a citizenship course or up to 4 hours of detainment for donning the Muslim niqab or burqa outside their homes, though not jail time.”

CA Senate Bill Mandates Gay History in Schools
New York Times: “California law already requires schools to cover the contributions to the state and nation of women, African Americans, Mexican Americans, entrepreneurs, Asian Americans, European Americans, American Indians and labor.”

Most Catholic women in U.S. use birth control
Reuters: “Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women in the United States have used contraceptive methods banned by the church, research published on Wednesday showed.”

Idaho Governor Signs 20 Week Abortion Ban Into Law Despite A.G.’s Objections
RH Reality Check: “Despite having the state Attorney General advise him that the measure was likely unconstitutional, Idaho Governor “Butch” Otter signed a 20 week abortion ban into law.”

A Lawsuits Unusual Question: Who Is a Man?
New York Times: “An employer fired Mr. Devoureau because it said only a man was allowed to do his job: watching men urinate into plastic cups at a drug treatment center. “

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
Vanity Fair: “The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.”

Kill Me or Leave Me Alone: Street Harassment as a Public Health Issue
Racialicious: “Men, Black men and White men can joke and shit about how Charlie [Sheen] and what not is funny, but as a Black woman, trying to get from point A to point B, who demands to be treated like a human being, violence or the threat of violence is a real part of my day to day existence.”

Wal-Mart v. Women
New York Times: “The employment discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart, which the Supreme Court heard last week, is the largest in American history. If the court rejects this suit, it will send a chilling message that some companies are too big to be held accountable. “

The Military’s Secret Shame
Newsweek: “But now, as the Pentagon has begun to acknowledge the rampant problem of sexual violence for both genders, men are coming forward in unprecedented numbers, telling their stories and hoping that speaking up will help them, and others, put their lives back together.”

Joe Biden to students: ‘No means no’
Politico: “Alexandra Brodsky, one of the Yale complainants, told POLITICO Biden’s speech reinforced that sexual violence on college campuses is not just a ‘niche interest’ but ‘needs to be a national priority — a mainstream priority.’”

Why I have to legally adopt my own son
Salon: “My wife conceived our son, Julian, through artificial insemination by an anonymous sperm donor. If I were a man, I’d be the legal father already. No one would have cross-examined me or performed a DNA test before allowing me to sign the forms for his birth certificate.”

Fat Stigma Spreads Around the Globe
New York Times: “The findings were troubling, suggesting that negative perceptions about people who are overweight may soon become the cultural norm in some countries, including places where plumper, larger bodies traditionally have been viewed as attractive, according to a new report in the journal Current Anthropology.”

Gadhafi’s Revolutionary Nuns: An All-Female Team of Bodyguards Protects the Libyan Leader
BUST Magazine: “Adding to the long list of Gadhafi’s strange proclivities is his choice of personal protection: an all-female, lipsticked legion of virgins who accompany the leader as his personal bodyguards.”

Title IX Suit Filed Against Yale University for “Hostile Sexual Environment”
Jezebel: “Today the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced it will open an investigation of Yale University ‘for its failure to eliminate a hostile sexual environment on campus, in violation of Title IX.’”

CNN and the muslim woman next door
Racialicious: “In response to the mosque vandalism, Ivy says that the hardest thing for her is hearing her young daughter voice concern about her mother’s safety while wearing hijab outdoors. The tactics of intimidation, she says, have affected the children more than anything.”

Older women, blacks unhappy with their portrayal in films
Feministing: “In this case, older women and black people expressed the most discontent, with most women aged 50-75 saying they wanted more focus on their sexual desire, and most black people desiring less.”

Alabama House Approves Apology for Recy Taylor
ColorLines: “Taylor’s case has for decades lingered as an icon of the sexual violence black women suffered from white men in the South. At the time, her case became a rallying point for a movement to end impunity for that violence. Today, federal law enforcement officials have reopened dozens of civil rights era murders, but have not revisited the rapes and sexual assaults that went un-prosecuted.”