Reactions are flowing in from various groups on the Howard plan to send in white forces to re-steal land and stamp out autonomy in Northern Territory aboriginal communities. A delegation representing 60 Aboriginal and community groups is today delivering its… Read More ›
Day: 2007-06-26
Ten year old girl “asked for it”
In today’s “YayRape!”-judge news, a judge in the UK has offered up a very light sentence to a pedophile who raped a ten-year-old girl. Why? Because of what she was wearing. In the latest case, Oxford Crown Court heard harrowing… Read More ›
Who do we trust more to Do It Right?
I said this in comments on a previous post regarding the NT Indigenous Emergency Plan, and I want to expand on the theme, as it feels like some electoral scales may have fallen from my eyes. I really want all… Read More ›
Dear regular commentors
Fancy popping up a guest post or two at Hoyden next week? I’ve got school holiday shenanigans to cope with, and won’t have as much time to write next week (or the week after, come to that). Posts don’t have… Read More ›
Hating on “contextual” advertising
The way much online advertising is structured to respond to words used in text on the page, all in the service of consumerism, is often jarring. Fat-acceptance blogs, for instance, tend not to have such advertising (which would help them… Read More ›
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