Lauredhel

Lauredhel is an Australian woman and mother with a disability. She blogs about disability and accessibility, social and reproductive justice, gender, freedom from violence, the uses and misuses of language, medical science, otters, gardening, and cooking.

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on May 19, 2012

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

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Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on May 12, 2012

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Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on April 28, 2012

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Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on April 7, 2012

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Giveaway: Why Study Women’s History?

By Lauredhel on March 31, 2012

“Working with college students, I often recall myself as a sophomore at Barnard College in 1966. I wanted nothing to do with women’s movements or women’s history. When my advisor, Annette Baxter, suggested that I enroll in her course on U.S. women’s history, I had the nerve to reply that I would rather study “real” history.”

In 1-3 paragraphs, how would you have responded to the young Ms Freedman, and to women like her?

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Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on March 31, 2012

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Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on March 24, 2012

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Otterday! And Open Thread.

By Lauredhel on March 17, 2012

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Girls speak: on Harry Potter, Radio National, and how to fix a sexist screwup

By Lauredhel on March 15, 2012

This rather highlighted in my mind exactly how rarely this happens in the media. Teenage girls as experts in their own experience?

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Otterday! And Open Thread. Now with bonus CAKE!

By Lauredhel on March 10, 2012

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The rise of fetal personhood notions in WA politics

By Lauredhel on February 27, 2012

Things are not looking great in Western Australia for the rights of pregnant people at the moment. Yesterday we had this: Unborn babies given recognition in new laws Causing the death of an unborn child will be viewed similar to murder by courts as part of new laws the state government wants to bring in.[…] [...]

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