X-ray casts
Castoo is a business that offers “tattoos” for plaster casts. You can get dragons, fairies, flames, sharks, old skool tattoos, flowers, or a variety of other designs. My favourite? Send ‘em your X-ray, and you’ll get back a cast decoration that looks like your fracture. (Though all I can do is look at that photo, [...]
Full Story »Not your punchline, Amanda Palmer.
If you missed this week’s Good News Week, or couldn’t see it because you’re not in Australia, here are the “disabled feminists” sledges aimed at FWD/Forward from Amanda Palmer, Des Bishop, and Paul McDermott. The ones we’ve been talking about in Otterday. * (Edited to add: For those who don’t already know, the conjoined twins [...]
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Parenting tips: watch classic movies with your child
So that you won’t ever have to find out one day that they have written something like this to a movie studio.
Full Story »Quick Hit: Maybe it’s her fault for having a shower?
The photo of a young Lara Bingle which has apparently been doing the rounds of the cricket and AFL players for some time now has been published in the Woman’s Day magazine. Woman’s Day say they did not pay for the image. If you haven’t seen it, it is a head and shoulders shot of [...]
Full Story »Femmostroppo Reader – March 2, 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. Carnival Against Sexual Violence 89 – as always, Marcella puts together some excellent reading Johnny Weir Responds to Gender-Conformity Police – The horror, the horror, of a man who might be [...]
Full Story »Sing it: Hooray for Canada!
I have enjoyed the Canadian sense of whimsy evident for the big events. Who else would finish a show with giant inflatable beavers?
Full Story »My weekend was quiet
Indulged myself with some books bought with the Xmas gift voucher I finally dug up to use: Disrespected the cat: Ate and slept a fair bit too.
Full Story »Keep your eye on the ball
Negative stereotypes about feminists abound in the media. And in response several times a year another article written by a feminist comes out worrying about the damage done by the deliberate misrepresentation of feminism. I worry too. Women won’t want to be feminists, let alone understand the cause, if the name is too scary for [...]
Full Story »Femmostroppo Reader – February 27, 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. Finding Fault In The Binary Of Guilt – “If Paul’s thinking is valid then it must be wrong that we have a binary system for all crimes including murder. If Paul [...]
Full Story »Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s otter, Kit the sea otter pup, comes from MNN, the Mother Nature Network. 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 great book? Anything in the news that you’d like [...]
Full Story »The Bland Perfection of Token Women
Why the glamorous hair and make-up? Why not a more realistic neat/tidy small town look? All I will be thinking is “why is she working in that laundromat instead of trying to be a Hollywood actress?” when of course the answer is that the real woman is indeed trying to be a Hollywood actress, and the director/producers have, for some reason, chosen to highlight this Tinseltown glamour instead of costuming their female characters as typical inhabitants of a small town.
Full Story »Femmostroppo Reader – February 25, 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. furikku: In which I babble about Writing Minorities – “And since the categories have developed over decades- centuries in some cases- they’re generally made by The Majority, and reflect the attitudes [...]
Full Story »Thursday Cheezburger: Kittehs Caring For You. And Delurking Day!
Today’s Cheezburger theme is…. Kittehs In Healthcare! Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only – that is, no URLs with .jpg, .png, .gif (etc) on the end. This [...]
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