Friday Links: Lady Gaga and Zombies

(Flickr/Kerry Burnout)

• Apparently Lady Gaga's songs present problems for sign language interpreters. How do you translate disco stick? [Washington Post]
• Last week, I highlighted Sarah Jaffe's series on anti-choice Democrasts, but it's also worth highlighting some great pro-choicers. [Keep Your Boehner Out Of My Uterus]
• "Americans are so used to the fact that women are capable of doing anything that we hardly ever discuss it." [Gail Collins]
• These awesome ladies (and men) are protesting to change bad sexual assault policies. [Penn Live]
• Why do environmentalists hate the Easy-Bake Oven? [Food & Think]
• "It took me a long time of standing still and being quiet to figure out what in retrospect appears to be a pretty simple lesson: writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing." [Fuck Yeah Lady Writers]
  
• Are you sure you're rooting for the right baseball team? [YFSF]
• Only about 20 percent of plays are written and produced by women. [Female Playwrights Initiative]
• We're becoming the United States of Zombieland. [AlterNet]
• The super-awesome Anna Holmes takes on Charlie Sheen and his horrible misogyny. [New York Times]