We Write Letters
Month: April 2008
This week, I shall be mostly googling ‘diabetes’
My darling husband spent hours at our local Emergency Department today, hooked up to a saline drip and being injected with insulin. His blood glucose level (BGL) was scarily high, yet he’s never been diagnosed with high blood sugar by… Read More ›
I’ll never look at Tony Hill in quite the same way again
Damn you, Gummo! Seriously, a great post on a skeptical approach to psychological profiling in homicide cases.
Newbie bloggers: how’s it going?
I just came across this blog written by Freya, a 17-year-old woman in India, who’s exploring feminism generally and the sexist culture of her own country particularly. She’s only been blogging for about a week, but I just want to… Read More ›
Free Speech Frolics
@ndy at Slackbastard is having a few adventures with folks in the UK serving a “cease and desist” letter to his webhosting service based on defamation allegedly contained in one of @ndy’s posts. The “chilling effect” of this notice of… Read More ›
Saturday is Bug Day
Remember baroquestar’s beautiful bee? Now, a ladybird. Awwww. Anyone else got any great bug photos?
Question of the day: Skirmishes with strawfeminism
Today, I was asked about straw-feminist stereotypes, about the ongoing battles we have knocking them down, and about how tedious and tiring it is fighting the same crap over and over and over again. The skirmishes tend to be conducted… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Susan Butcher
This Friday Hoyden is a guest post from huckle. Huckle is a feminist who is slowly turning from resentfully compliant to cheerfully grumpy as she gets older. She is a single mum who works full time. She grows organic vegies,… Read More ›
Friday Furry and Linkfest
A moose gives some cats a winter surprise in Alaska: Image credit: photograph by LizMarie Links harvested from my feedreader this week:
WOC ‘Engage best through negative discourse’: Seal Press
You know how Seal Press aren’t at all racist? And how these book covers[1] are just all mass-market-fun and goofball and ironic and hilarious and why must you always be so serious and critique-y and stuff anyway? Well. The amazing… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 