This week’s best reads on gender, art, politics and creativity - chopped up, roasted and served to you on a platter.

‘Invisible man’ Liu Bolin disappears again. (Lost at E Minor)

Camilla Peffer dissects Beyonce’s particular brand of feminism (it falls some place between third wave and post-). (Girls are Made From Pepsi)

The top ten things that piss off Londoners. (Londonist)

Dear professional blogger: how do you make money? (Yes and Yes)

Why were we so quick to presume the London rioters were poor?:

Did we see violence, looting and vandalism and assume that this could only be the work of poor people, and passively accepted the media’s categorization of the perpetrators as such?  Or are we so blinded by our ideological beliefs, romanticizing the riots to be exactly what Marx warned us of that we bought this generalization? Or do we want so desperately to blame governmental cuts against the poor that we ignore the lack of solid evidence as to who these rioters really are? (Sociological Images)

My girl Monica on the London riot lootings and China’s quest for luxury. (Kapooka Baby)

Some nice media analysis of US Glamour from Kate Harding: How one woman’s weight loss story went awry. (Jezebel)

And more on consumerism and the “costly pursuit of popularity” from Erica Bartle:

In the worst of cases, you wake one day to find that you are not a whole but, indeed, an assembly of lots of selves and cultural artefacts. Your attempts to emulate, to run with the pack, or even stay two steps ahead, have left you flat with nothing to give back. You feel like an iPhony. So the quest to find your true self begins… only beneath all the clutter, you’re not so sure you’re going to like what you find. Not to worry: more stuff will numb that straight away! (Girl With A Satchel)

You don’t have to be “born this way” to be different. (Zero At The Bone)

Eight bloggers under 18 you need to be reading. (Refinery 29)