A new feature for the blog: an irregular look at endangered species and how climate change is predicted to further affect them. Manatees are native to Florida, and have no native predators there. They are endangered because they are slow-moving… Read More ›
Year: 2010
The existence of this hat makes me absurdly cheerful
What exuberantly superfluous and dorktastic sights have brightened your day recently?
Saturday Garden
It’s a midsummer garden, so there’s not a whole lot going on except brown, dusty, and dry. Here’s what is. The melaleuca is flowering, in a mix of purple, pink and white flowers:
Blogging for Choice: Trusting Women
Choice here is not just about the choice to terminate an unwanted or unsafe pregnancy. It is also about the choice to continue a pregnancy when others would rather that you did not (a situation that many disabled women in particular find themselves in). It is also about the choice to raise or relinquish the child once it has been born.
Otterday! And Open Thread.
It’s…. Otterday! Hosted by a LOLotter from I Can Has Cheezburger. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your… Read More ›
Quickhit: Icedancers with a new twist on blackface.
Via baby_elvis, this ice-dancing routine. From the news: Russian world ice-skating champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin have danced around the controversy surrounding their Aboriginal-themed routine, insisting they will still use it at the Winter Olympics. Aboriginal elders say the… Read More ›
Haiti In Pictures: “You Can’t Show THAT”
In the news:
Friday Hoyden: Nellie Donegan, roller skater, 1913
Photo comes from the State Library online gallery on Flickr (via @dogpossum on Twitter): just look at the vitality and mischief of her!
On speaking out, and stigma
So hey, Cosima Marriner at the SMH, here’s a tip. If you’re going to talk about how disabilities shouldn’t be stigmatised (and about how PWD should come out already because then the stigma will go away), how’s about not using… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Reader – January 22, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Disregarding Probable Cause – “When there are grounds for suspicion that a person has committed a… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 