Five Links That Are Actually Important, 12/16/08
1. Wombs For Rent — Jill at Feministe discusses a recent article about surrogacy and the many issues around the practice.
2. An interesting article about homophobia and “handling the gay male kiss” in movies. Via Shakesville.
3. Over at Alas, Ampersand offers an excellent analysis of anti-fat bias in a recent study, thereby tearing the study to shreds.
4. Bush’s Midnight Attack on Farm Workers: These will be the most far-reaching changes in the laws regulating agricultural guestworker programs since 1942. They will return us to an era of agricultural labor exploitation that many thought ended decades ago. –Via A Slant Truth.
Our Descent Into Madness 