That’s the document spearheading a UK campaign from five royal colleges of medicine, nursing and midwifery and backed by UNICEF, which aims to introduce laws supporting breastfeeding mothers by making it an offense for anyone to attempt to stop a… Read More ›
Month: May 2007
Good for the gander
via Tama Leaver‘s post on a fanboy collectible of Mary Jane from the Spiderman comics (which I have seen around the feminist gamer/comics sites this week already) I find that Nancy Lorenz at GirlWonder.org has done a parody to show… Read More ›
Crook as a chook
and a very busy weekend too. Saturday was the extended family get-together for Mothers’ Day and the togster’s birthday (both of which were actually today, but my brother’s partner wanted a nuclear family day for her first Mothers’ Day as… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Reason #4297 why I love this country
This morning, a breakfast TV announcer on a nationally broadcast programme forgot herself for a moment and said “oh bugger, I missed [XYZ trivial feelgood thing]”. The TV network will probably get a small flurry of letters from people who… Read More ›
Friday Fluffy linkfest
Ripped from my feedreader this week: Mentis Fugit gives us the story of two US military veterans deciding to bestow their Purple Hearts on two separate individuals they felt worthy of the decoration. Men and Women like different films (except… Read More ›
Snippets of good news on reproductive rights: Skin Of Our Teeth edition
I bring you four snippets of good news on reproductive rights, two from the USA, one from Ireland, and one from Mexico. People are fighting for women’s rights, and in some places they’re hanging on — just. I think the… Read More ›
Ever found that whole Mars/Venus male/female thing sorta suss?
You’re not alone. The problem is that John Gray knows very well how to hit all the socially constructed hot buttons on male entitlement and female submission so that readers infer the message that Venusians have only themselves to blame… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 