The Fourteenth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! The deadline for submissions is midnight on the 2nd of July, so get your posts in before then. This edition will be hosted by anjum rahman at Kiwi… Read More ›
Month: June 2009
Femmostroppo Reader – June 30, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Pregnancy As a Sign of Intimate Partner Abuse – “…the way that intimate partner violence often takes the form of… Read More ›
Oh For Fuck’s Sake of the Day: “Natural or Nasty?”
I was just pointing some fellow twitterers to this rather decent article at the Age, “Standing up for the ones who have to sit“. (Check it out.) Hellonhairylegs asked me: Did you see the picture for the breastfeeding article at… Read More ›
Alternative Youth Music Station Thinks There’s No Alternative to Being a Bloke
Today’s Guest Hoyden is regular commentor orlando, who returned to Sydney last year after a time living in the UK. Over at Triple J right now it’s “Male Week”. The ABC’s Australia-wide, government funded youth music radio station has dedicated… Read More ›
Advice please
First, a little background. I do not wear makeup, I rarely wear dresses I think I only own one apart from my wedding dress which is floating around somewhere. My clothing of choice is tracksuit pants or comfy jeans. While… Read More ›
Rally in Canberra September 7: Homebirth: What’s the Crime? Guest post by Janet Fraser
This is a guest post by Janet Fraser, National Convenor of Joyous Birth, the Australian homebirth network, also blogging at Looking Glass Alice. It is cross-posted here. With a background in academia and feminist activism, Janet brings a wealth of… Read More ›
The mysterious case of the disappearing …
From the West: A Perth mother with no medical experience delivered a baby in a carpark in the middle of a downpour this morning while a police officer, a port worker and the frantic father looked on in awe. Helen… Read More ›
Spirit of P P McGuinness, leave Razer’s body!
One of the scary things about getting older is watching other people, who used to be younger and groovier than yourself, age and settle into the sclerotic patterns of unexamined privilege and rightwing attitudes. In the 90s, as a thirtysomething,… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Reader – June 29, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. I Didn't Know "Rest In Peace" Came with a Citizenship Requirement! – This is what happens when hate rhetoric escalates… Read More ›
Traumatic brain injury is not “pretending”, Clementine Ford.
Well, this is one of the most enormous pieces of disability fail I’ve seen in the mainstream media for quite a while; and it comes not from Andrew Bolt and friends, but from someone who calls herself a feminist. I… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 