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Poet Marshall Davis Jones on the meaning of father and mother

Americans are "fine." Ask a Russian, and you'll get much more: the truth (NY Times opinion pages)

Parody of charity appeals which challenges stereotypes of African poverty

Debate over gender-based toy marketing has reached a fever pitch. In December, LEGO -- a brand that previously could do no wrong -- came out with a girlified version of their beloved blocks called LEGO Friends. Also has picture s of other toys that have become more girly or sexualised.

Blog about Lego's new ad which targets girls, and the 'pinkifying' of toys (Princess Free Zone)

performance video and text of poem 'Shrinking Women' by Lily Myers

How to use storyboards when you can't really draw

Some examples of gender bias in language

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, took a close look at today's uptalk, popularized during the 1980s as Valley Girl Speak.

Carlos Andres Gomez's poem about language and manhood

Hattie Morahan, who recently played Nora in a Young Vic production of Ibsen's powerful classic about a woman taking control of her own destiny, stars in writer Nick Payne and director Carrie Cracknell's short film imagining what a modern-day Nora might look like, 130 years on from the original

When it comes to conversation, are women really more likely to be bigger talkers than men? (BBC Future Health)

Researchers from the University of Maryland say the reason women are more talkative - and speak up to 20,000 words a day - is because of higher levels of the Foxp2 protein (Mail Online)

A study finds that MTV's "16 and Pregnant," a reality show depicting very young parents, may have contributed to a drop in teenage pregnancy (NY Times)

Artist Orion Martin recently posted several images reimagining X-Men characters as people of color. This touched off a conversation about race in comic book worlds, and how these comic book depictions relate to real life (from NPR's Code Switch)

An emoji art exhibition looks at the appeal of this new expressive, yet cryptic, form of language.

UNICEF commercial - clicking on a banner can save lives.

It's easier than ever to support a good cause -- all you have to do is hit the like button. But even though it's important to be liked, likes can't fund medicine, water or food (Commercial for UNICEF)

"The inspiration was from noticing beauty ads over the years looking unrealistically perfect, and thinking that they may as well be advertising Photoshop than what they sell. I just decided to make a fun, exaggerated parody of the ads and turn them around to make Photoshop the beauty product, instead."