Linkalectable #1: Radfem Carnival, prison in Uganda, the medico-rehabilitatio-industrial complex, the Australian Budget, and women go to bat against foreign multinationals in the Philippines
Linkalectable. 1. The First Carnival of Radical Feminists at Women’s Space. Heart grounds current-day radical feminism in the history of the movement, recalls the many achievements of radical feminism, and smacks down the dismissive dysperception that radfems are immersed in theory at the expense of action – and that theory isn’t action. Headings include Women [...]
MPs shocked, utterly shocked
A cautionary tale from across the ditch: Maia, of Capitalism Bad, Tree Pretty, has a post up in the sad told-you-so category, Politicians Shocked About Predictable Consequences of their Policies. The policy in this case was New Zealand’s public health system privatising the provision of disability support, with contracts for assistance services put out to [...]
Another one for the social crime list: Parenting While Disabled
A few days ago, I talked a bit about invisible disability and the access issues that people seem to just not think about. Today I’ve been reading the Blogging Against Disablism Day posts at Diary of a Goldfish. Tokah has a post up at From Where I’m Sitting:“Universal Design… not!”. Her rant shouldn’t be revelatory, [...]
I’ve got a little list
The above stresses deformities and injuries are all foreseeable and even inevitable consequences of longterm wearing of high heeled shoes.
Emphasis mine
Fat children are more likely to have their father to blame for their weight problem than their mother, a new study shows. Research by Australian child health experts has revealed that fathers who are disengaged or do not set clear limits for their kids are more likely to have heavier children. Dads who did lay [...]
Stop and think: invisible access for invisible disabilities
This is my first personal post about being sick. A “coming-out”, to some of my online friends. And a whole lot of elaboration, for those who know I’m sick, but don’t know the details. It’s taken me ages to write, and I haven’t re-drafted it: here are my musings, in the raw. Becoming Sick I [...]
Parenting While Female: “It’s Not About You”
I’ve been contemplating this post: The Male Gaze… falls upon a Nursing Mother…. by Morgan Gallagher. I think there’s an important truth in there, something feminists find themselves saying over and over and over again: “It’s not about you.” Breastfeeding fear seems to be partly about keeping mothers in the home where they “belong”, partly [...]
1142 days of not waking up with intrascapular pain
Just over 3 years ago I had breast reduction mammoplasty surgery. At the time I clunkily coded my own webpage detailing the events pre and post op. (some of my invisible listserv friends said “you should blog this” and I said “what is blog” silly me) Anyway, here’s the gory story. Anyone considering such surgery [...]
Ghouls
I haven’t posted here about the Virginia Tech massacre, because I had nothing adequate to say. I got in an argument about guns over at LP, and that was one reason I didn’t write on it here either. Sadly No! summed up most contributions aptly as everybody thumping their usual tubs and bellowing that “this [...]
Everyday Codebreaking in Australia, vol.1
As you know, I’ve been talking a bit about violations of the WHO Code. I’ve started collecting some examples of everyday Code-breaking in Australia. My last example was of Wyeth’s transgressions. Have you heard of Nutricia, a Dutch Numico subsidiary? Some examples of issues in Numico’s past include direct-to-mother promotional campaigns in China, hospital violations [...]
McBrickWall on Mother’s Milk
Further to this post about a family being threatened with removal from a Ronald McDonald House for breastfeeding – in the eating area – with one twin post-op from brain surgery and exclusively on breastmilk – and with their banishment room being three stories above – comes this followup. You can read the brief updates [...]
The big pink M logo and the corporate appropriation of breastfeeding
Thanks for all the guesses on the pink-M logo. All is now revealed: Tigtog, Joules, Mel, you were right on with the mummy-marketing interpretation. Tigtog, you win Lauredhel’s Grade-A Cynic Prize of the Week – you were dead right. Before you read any further, please read my footnote[1]. I spotted this logo at the Mike [...]
Pop quiz: corporate logo.
See this logo? What do you think it looks like? What do you think it’s on? Edited to add: all is now revealed. Related posts: New feminist science tumblr needs a logo Quiz: Representations of Disabled Bodies in Logos Quiz oTD Pop quiz: Women in Parliament The big pink M logo and the corporate appropriation [...]
Social skills: over-rated?
(Updated: forgot the damn link) Twisty thinks so, after describing her own lack of compliance with social conformity: It is an asset, not to mention a joy and a relief, to be unencumbered by social skills. What are they, after all, but a set of arbitrarily-conceived customs meant to sort people into classes, the more [...]
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