The Odds & Ends Drawer

It's been a while. Soz.

• This is awesomeness in a blog post, at Pickled Think.
• margotmagowan noticed something missing from a whole heap of kids' movie posters this year. (H/T to @bluemilk)
• Author of Big Selling Actual Books Kate Elliott explains why she writes about rape in her stories. (Trigger warning for rape, violence, war)
• Curvaceous Dee determines what makes her a woman.
• Just in case you missed it, here's Lew's excellent post on the strategic comms failures in the Alasdair Thompson Is A Sexist Dinosaur case (written after the TV3 interview but before the sacking).
• The BBC offers the perspective of sponsored children in Ghana. (H/T to @stef_thomp)
• Annanonymous has a two-parter on over-parenting, Part I and Part II.
• rgoodchild asks where are the men's refuges?  (Trigger warning for domestic violence/abusive relationships)

As always, feel free to share links in comments to your own stuff, or someone else's, that you'd like to get out there.