Signal Boost: women being prosecuted for retracting domestic violence allegations
From Destroy the Joint, a call for action at NSW state level: call upon the Attorney General Greg Smith to issue a direction to the NSW DPP under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act to ensure that no one is prosecuted solely for retracting an allegation of domestic or sexual violence without the approval of a senior lawyer within the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Update: Attorney-General Greg Smith has made a statement that he has no plans to revise the existing laws relating to this matter. Now is the time to up the pressure.
In Support of Captain Bridget Clinch
Captain Bridget Clinch is a pretty awesome woman. It’s because of her that the Australian Defence Force changed its policy, which banned people undergoing or contemplating gender reassignment from serving. She risked the job she loves — the job she’s wanted since she was a teenager — in order to be able to serve openly [...]
Femmostroppo Reader November 5, 2010
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Femmostroppo Reader October 28, 2010
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Femmostroppo Reader – January 13, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. my five fav tools to dialogue about justice – “below are tools that i use in workshops that have proven to be really helpful. i use these because they shaped the [...]
Glasson: “Of course, some people, particularly those with vested interests (like those making money out of selling alcohol), will feel threatened.”
[image source] The Christmas Issue of the Medical Journal of Australia has a section on the Northern Territory Intervention. Reading the various contributions in concert with each other is illuminating. Check it out. A few snippets: The Northern Territory intervention: voices from the centre of the fringe by Alex Brown and Ngiare J Brown, both [...]
Feminism Friday: Humour as a tool for shaming and silencing
Last week’s Feminism Friday post was on why Rape Jokes Just Aren’t Funny, based on a series from Melissa McEwan of Shakesville, and Bernice made a telling comment. Humour – the final frontier of colonialisation. You really now you’ve co-opted someone into the frame of dominance from which you work, when you can get them [...]
International Day of Action on the NT Invasion, November 17
From Fire Fly (at She Who Stumbles), the WOC blog, Vox ex Machina, Critical Bloggers, Automatic Preference, and Ubuntu: Call for Solidarity with Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory Stop the Invasion! International Day of Action, November 17th In June this year, the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, announced that there would be a ‘National [...]
Scorn as Art
I posted recently about the art of crafting political invective, in finding just the right term to throw at a political adversary to sink them in the public estimation, and how it’s an art that’s largely gone down hill in recent decades. But still sometimes someone gets it right. I’m talking about the recent coinage [...]
Liberté, Fraternité, Rosé
The Chronicle Herald reports that a pair of Canadian lads organised a demonstration of solidarity with a boy who was being tormented by bullies – for wearing pink. A gang of arsehats had been harassing the younger pink-wearing boy. They jeered at him with pointed insults like “homosexual” (because that’s the worst retort a knuckle-dragging [...]
Women for Wik
Women for Wik are back. Women for Wik is a group of Australian women, including indigenous women and allies to the cause of rights for indigenous people. Founders and supporters include Lady Deane, writer Rosie Scott, former Chairperson of ATSIC Lowitja O’Donoghue, writer-producer of the film Rabbit-Proof Fence Christine Olsen, Tamie Fraser, and archaeologist Associate [...]
Domestic abuse
A great post from a survivor of an abusive marriage, addressing the issue of “why do women stay?” and how responses to a survivor are often just victim-blaming instead of true support.
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