Call for submissions: The Asian Women Blog Carnival – by August 15
Jha’Meia at Rebellious Jezebel Blogging; Acting Out Edition has a call out for submissions to the 3rd Asian Women Blog Carnival, and the deadline is Saturday, August 15. Anyone who identifies as an Asian woman or ally is welcome to submit, bearing in mind the focus and the safe-space guidelines. Fiction, poetry, and anecdotes are [...]
Quickhit: victim-blaming a 12 year old
I’ve just put up a post over at Sack Kyle & Jackie O that addresses some of the questions being asked about whether the whole scandal still matters now that “Rachel” asked police last week to not investigate further and now the claims by family members on last night’s A Current Affair that she wasn’t raped, that the sex was “consensual”. A 12 year old, passed out drunk while at a party she’d lied about going to, had consensual sex with a (not much) older boy with other people in the room, according to them. So why didn’t any of those other people stop it?
It’s all connected: story and song
Stuff I’m reading [click through to the links for context]: I’m reading girlejones at mynxii’s place: The arts are the mechanism through which individuals of society express themselves, commentate and protest. It’s what gives individuals a voice and it’s a way for disparate groups of people to interact, engage, find one another and have dialogue. [...]
Quote of the Day: Domestic terrorist networks
“Make no mistake, these are domestic terrorists,” says Spillar. “And we feel the DOJ and the FBI must treat them as such. “
Hottest 100 Women Countdown is ON!
The Hottest100Women countdown is on right now! Check it out – right now they’re up to the fifties – over at the hottest 100 women blog. *sings along to Atomic* [edited 10 Aug to add: warning: the "Positions 25-27" includes a photo that some may find very distressing.] Related posts: “Most of our choices, as [...]
A national electronic health & social record
I’m officially creeped right the fuck out by Trevor Kerr’s article in Croakey, “Why the secrecy about data, when it could help everything from influenza to child protection“. I find any suggestion of national electronic medical records disturbing at the best of times, because the issue of abuse and data protection are overwhelmingly obvious. Or [...]
Quickhit: Read this instead
Instead of what, you ask? Instead of the latest trollery from an evpsych twonk I won’t bother linking to because he’s successfully managed to get plenty of feminist blogs to link to him already, that’s what.
Violence by Numbers
People who followed White Ribbon Day a few months ago will remember that WRD was bitterly resented by (a) many members of the public who saw it in impossibly crude terms – but, but, but, you mean men are all mean, nasty people!? and (b) the usual suspects, the MRAs, some of whom actually have [...]
One for the WTF files: SMH cartoon on QANTAS “overbooked babies” error
Why represent women planning to engage in political action as smugglers? In their underwear? And barefoot?
What the hell is your point?
Because you can’t go a day without this reminder
You know those afternoons where there’s nothing urgent to do, and you’re just tootling around Twitter and Facebook, feeling fairly comfy and content, and then misogyny just hits you abruptly in the face? Yeah. I took the What Body Part Are You? quiz on Facebook, expecting some flimsy but inoffensive joke about a liver or [...]
Getting angry at women who don’t fulfil your expectations
BBC: A 48-year-old US man who opened fire in a Pennsylvania gym, killing three women and himself, appeared to have written about his plans for the attack. [...] Sodini appeared to have planned the attack since at least November 2008, the Associated Press reports. Other entries on the blog described struggles with alcoholism and an [...]
Fifteenth Down Under Feminists Carnival: July 2009
Welcome to the Fifteenth Edition of down under feminists carnival! This carnival features posts made by Aussie and Kiwi feminists during July, 2009.
Gendered social interactions and rape-shaming
Just saw this post about rape linked to over at Shapely Prose, and I’m jumping on the bandwagon of making sure that everybody goes to read her perfect illustration of how everything women are trained to do in every-day interactions in order to not be ostracised as a castrating bitch is used against us by [...]
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