Dispatches from Ladyblogland

Welcome to the new week. Here’s some stuff to tide you over while you take an Internet break.

XOJane writes about Lena Dunham and the audacity of looking at her naked. FYI, we wrote about this last year. XOJane and Persephone Magazine

There’s a new Destiny’s Child single. Woo! Pitchfork

You know, it’d be awesome if these essays didn’t continue to describe the reality of rape culture. But until something changes, these essays will be accurate. Huffington Post

Here’s a great list of self-rescuing princesses! A Mighty Girl 

A pretty fascinating account of how one writer wrote a book about falling in love and realized she’d written a bit of a how-to on falling in love with an abuser. Gawker

Is it fair to enforce exercise and make frosties illegal? XOJane

Can you be quirky AND feminist? Of course you can. Zooey, you’ve grown on everyone. XXFactor

The Wandering is a new feminist art collective for teenagers. It’s kinda cool. The Wandering

All-in-all, it was a pretty damn good week in the blogosphere!