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 chest? […] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
Year: 2011
Where to now with the #mencallmethings momentum?
The gendered cyber harassment campaigns are rank intimidation aimed at silencing us. We have to keep on talking about it so that they do not succeed.
Thursday Cheezburger – Celebrate
Today’s theme is Celebrate. We haz a Carbon Tax.
Madison Young on that whole breastfeeding controversy
Image credit. Remember this? A breastfeeding portrait of pornographer and feminist performance artist, Madison Young that led another pornographer to accuse her of exploiting and sexualising her baby? Well, Tracy Clark-Flory has just interviewed Madison Young over at Salon on… Read More ›
Quickhit – bring on the female tradies!
What proportion of tradies would you guess are women?
Gender baby
Image description: a photograph of some stenciled graffiti art on a rendered brick wall. It shows two identical baby faces side by side…
Carbon Price Legislation Passes Senate
Discuss.
Official tigtog position on this legislation: it’s a nice start, should have happened ages ago, bring on the MRRT.
Quickhit: “Womanspace”
After years of apparently expecting his professor wife to work second shift, and suddenly finding that domestic work is not as easy as he thought: Cretaceous manchild virologist cracks “men hunt, women gather” shopping joke as if it’s novel and hilarious…
Do you see Indigenous men as role models?
Aboriginal and Islander men, so readily demonised in Australia, held a march last Saturday in Melbourne in the name of reclaiming, respecting and protecting themselves and their communities.
Wrong way! Go back!
This piece by Paul Strangio is right on the money. Labor has taken the left for granted and while this hasn’t cost them government it has cost them desperately needed public support. Last Federal election some Labor campaign organisers told… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 