I’ve got a lot of reading and writing to do for a long post coming up, that I will post both here and over at Feminism 101, on Rape Myth Acceptance and negative attitudes towards victims of sexual violence, in… Read More ›
Year: 2008
Women reduced to a disembodied womb, GetUp edition
GetUp, a large Australian anti-conservative action group, has a Paid Parental Leave campaign on at the moment. Yes, bravo, etc. (They do confuse parental and maternity leave, but that’s another story.) When we’re talking equal pay, we get faces. But… Read More ›
Practical aid for remote indigenous communities: subsidise freight charges for fresh food, for a start?
Some focus in the SMH today on the high cost of fresh food in remote communities, where in at least one community in WA, Mulan, so high are the basic living costs that many simply go hungry for a couple… Read More ›
Institutionalised violence against women in China, redux
At the beginning of the Olympics, I posted “Olympics Special: Forced Abortion in China”, intending that it should be the start of a two-week series on institutionalised violence against women and girls in China. That series didn’t eventuate. In my… Read More ›
SF Sunday: reproduction
I’ve been thinking of various books I’ve read where a pivotal part of the Strange Land aspect of the narrative has been a style of reproduction that varies from the human norm – either technologically transformed human reproduction, or else… Read More ›
The Man Who Would Be Veep
Careful you don’t split your sides. [via Shakesville]
Girl-Wonder announces the Con Anti-Harassment Project
Remember the Penguicon “Open Source Boob Project” that took place at Penguicon, and the resulting grassroots idea – the “Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Project“? Feminist comics fandom site Girl-Wonder has formalised things a little more, and has… Read More ›
Otterday! And Weekend Open Thread
Today’s happy sea otter comes from sgrace on flickr. Please feel free to use this thread as an open thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get… Read More ›
63rd Carnival of the Feminists
I missed this last week! The Mind of Genevieve has published the 63rd Carnival of the Feminists. There is plenty of reading on street harassment, video games, TV, not taking people’s crap, marketing, being queer in Lebanon, teenage parenting, the… Read More ›
Fun with blogs and Christian Kerr, who doesn’t understand them
Christian Kerr was never my favourite Crikey! contributor back in the day, so I wasn’t especially aware of his opinion on many issues due to mostly skipping his byline (basically I avoided anything by him that was not straight political… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 