Dear Kindle Cloud Reader
Please to be fixing footnotes. It is utterly unacceptable to attempt reading Pratchett without them.
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Small (Environmental) Economies
I think that most of us here probably waste far more than we need to (I certainly do), but at the same time, most of us probably have our own little small personal economies to reduce waste, and it strikes me that sharing these with each other could be useful.
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The expulsion of #occupywallstreet
…acting on Mayor Bloomberg’s instructions the NYPD waited until the city was asleep to expel the #occupy protestors from Zucotti Park.
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Word
Feministe’s Caperton points out that a helpful chap’s effort to introduce women to a term he thought they might not have ever heard before could perhaps have been a bit better directed elsewhere.
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Quicklink: Gloria Steinem interview
Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken figure on behalf of women’s rights and the pro-choice movement for half a century.
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Quickhit: Smart Bitches, Crippy Books?
Prompted by a request from a PWD reader, SB Sarah from romance book review site Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is asking for recommendations for romance novels featuring heroines with disabilities and/or chronic conditions.
Can you help? Would you like some recs?
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Sydney Summery Femmosphere Meetup: Sunday December 18 in Manly
There will be a Hoyden and Femmosphere meetup in Manly on Sunday December 18 at 11:30am. Mark your calendars. Details to be confirmed.
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Otterday! And Open Thread.
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? [...] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
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Madison Young on that whole breastfeeding controversy
Image credit. Remember this? A breastfeeding portrait of pornographer and feminist performance artist, Madison Young that led another pornographer to accuse her of exploiting and sexualising her baby? Well, Tracy Clark-Flory has just interviewed Madison Young over at Salon on the whole controversy. Why is the issue of sex and motherhood such a potent subject? [...]
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Where to now with the #mencallmethings momentum?
By tigtog on November 11, 2011
The gendered cyber harassment campaigns are rank intimidation aimed at silencing us. We have to keep on talking about it so that they do not succeed.
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