If you read one thing this weekend, make it Jess Zimmerman’s takedown of “choice feminism” - pertinent in light of recent discussions on this blog about beauty privilege and positivity. Thoughts?:

Until the woman who doesn’t want to be seen as sexually available can go out with certainty that she won’t be harassed or ogled, your choice to turn heads and revel in attention is a privileged one. Until the woman who doesn’t prioritize appearance gets taken just as seriously in just the same contexts, it’s a privileged choice to achieve certain standards of beauty. You may be doing what you love, but you’re also doing what you’re told. (xoJane)

10 top tips to stop rape. (We Mixed Our Drinks)

Tavi Gevinson interviews Leith Clark, editor of Lula. (Style Rookie)

Camilla Peffer on the similarities between top style bloggers and glossy magazine covergirls:

Fashion and beauty have always been about creating magical worlds, with control over these fantasies commanded from the top down. The Internet has given fashion and beauty lovers a place to openly share and create their own worlds, and take a little bit more control over what the media hands to us. The thing is, sometimes the pages of Tumblr aren’t that far away from the sartorial jungles of high-fashion magazines. (Girls Are Made From Pepsi)

How to improve your writing. (Forbes)

And how to build an audience for your work online. And while we’re at it, how to get invited to a writers festival. (Lisa Dempster)

Why don’t we love drag kings the way we do queens? (Rachel Rabbit White)

Why are most sitcom pilots not very funny? (AV Club)

A great big giant ass list of feminist lit. (ameliorate or destroy)

No one is too smart to worry about beauty. (Eat The Damn Cake)

And finally, MookyChick is running a competition for feminist short fiction. Go enter it. (MookyChick.co.uk)