[image cribbed from Pinknews] The Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and president of the school council of “Churchie”, the all-boys Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, is in the news. Churchie, where manly men are made under… Read More ›
Day: 2008-04-15
Stolen Generations experiments: Australia’s Tuskegee?
[image source: Turing Foundation] News.com.au: Aboriginal children ‘injected with leprosy’ Allegations have arisen that Aboriginal children from the Stolen Generation may have been infected with leprosy or injected with experimental medication while institutionalised. The issue was raised during a Senate… Read More ›
Belated Blog for Solidarity: Congo Rape Epidemic
With everything else I had happening last weekend, I missed this blogswarm. I have nothing to add to Melissa’s wonderful post anyway: Blog in Solidarity: Congo Rape Epidemic I know it’s horrible. I know it’s the last fucking thing in… Read More ›
Sexual harassment ‘jokes’: still not funny. Hayden Panettiere on Funny or Die
From “Funny or Die“, via Oh No They Didn’t, via whooz_queen: Hayden Panettiere (star of Heroes) drops the ball attempting to satirise sexual harassment in this faux-PSA: Transcript: [Panettiere is standing in a plain dark dress facing the camera, hands… Read More ›