Marriage Equality Rally in Sydney — November 27th
Post made sticky on the front page because the march is this weekend!
Femmostroppo Reader – April 26, 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. Predator Theory – “In other words, the guy who says “she’s a dumb slut who probably liked it, so what does she expect” means it, and statistics will back up your [...]
Round up the lawyers! A trans person wants a correct birth certificate
From the Sydney Morning Herald, a trans man in Sydney named Conor Montgomery is trying to get his birth certificate changed. So why is this newsworthy? Conor Montgomery, 50, was born a female in Australia but took male hormones, had a double mastectomy and a chest reconstruction 2½ years ago to become a man.* His [...]
Blow for non-binary folks – Norrie’s ‘ungendered’ status withdrawn
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages has withdrawn the birth certificate they had granted to Norrie May-Welby, stating “Sex Not Specified”. It says it cancelled Norrie’s “recognised details certificate” after receiving legal advice it was invalid. “When I got the call on Tuesday I was [...]
Quickhit: Trans men still fighting mandatory sterilisation in WA
Amanda Banks writes in The West Australian: Transsexuals in landmark case Two female-to-male transsexuals should be able to keep female organs that allow them to bear children and still be legally recognised as men, it was argued in a landmark test of WA’s gender reassignment laws yesterday. The Court of Appeal case is expected to [...]
The legacies of trans-exclusive feminism (aka why are you angry?)
Having read over the various obituaries for Mary Daly the past couple days, I’ve found myself more and more angry at the various defences marshalled in her defence (I particularly recommend Sady’s one at Tiger Beatdown), I’ve found myself more and more angry at the various defences marshalled in her defence. And it’s not that [...]
Femmostroppo Reader – January 6, 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. Perpetrator Friendly Sexual Violence Prevention: Part 2 – “The flaws in this worldview are easy to spot once this worldview isn’t blindly accepted as the way the world works. Let’s apply [...]
Femmostroppo Reader – December 9, 2009
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. question of the day: Is Christopher Eccleston too old to play John Lennon? – Why haven’t I seen Cara blogging about this? The Princess and the Frog (review) – “You know [...]
Did you know?
Did you know that being a woman means you hate Keira Knightley? Fuck Politeness has done an excellent takedown of this, so I won’t repeat it here. Also, did you know (if you are a married woman) that Tiger Woods has done you a favour? Congratulations married ladies, you have made it into the “women [...]
Femmostroppo Reader – November 19, 2009
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. (I’m also aiming to add more tags to individual reader posts, to provide better indexing and help more with the similar posts feature, so if you want to suggest a tag [...]
Femmostroppo Reader – November 4, 2009
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. Let's Get a Few Things Straight, Shall We? – “Don’t get me wrong: I do not, for a second, want to deny or downplay Claudia McClean’s experience here. It shows just [...]
Quick Hit: Want Androcur? Join the Sex Offender Registry!
ETA (18 Oct 2009): This may, in fact, be complete rumour, everyone! Apologies for not checking; I didn’t realise the PBS was online. If you look here, you can see that there are multiple indications under which it can be prescribed, and whilst one of the first is for ‘deviancy’, the secondary indication can be [...]
Que(e)rying Sex Ed
Each year, I teach a course on gender and sexuality to a bunch of second year uni students. It’s focussed pretty firmly on challenging heteronormativity, in a way that most of the students, even those who are queer in some way, even those who claim (over and over, sometimes!) to be ‘totally cool’ with ‘gayness’, [...]
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