Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
Month: March 2012
Otterday! And Open Thread.
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? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
Girls speak: on Harry Potter, Radio National, and how to fix a sexist screwup
This rather highlighted in my mind exactly how rarely this happens in the media. Teenage girls as experts in their own experience?
Outland Open Thread: Episode 6, “Pride”
It’s the season finale! Will the group make it to Pride?
Quick Hit – Grace Fallen
Quick Hit: Grace Fallen Photography
Happy Pi Day
Listen to Kate Bush singing π from her 2005 album Aerial (and yes, I know).
Because women’s equality has not always existed like grass and trees.. it had to be fought for
For the people who don’t believe sexism still exists this tumblr, A Thousand Reasons is great.. and here’s the story behind it.
“Pardon me for being born into a nation of racists”
An iconic image showing Aboriginal rights activist, Gary Foley with a placard reading, “Pardon me for being born into a nation of racists”. It was part of a protest against the South African Springboks rugby tour of Australia in 1971 during apartheid.
Hashtag Of the Day: #ididnotreport (trigger warning #rapeculture #webelieveyou)
The headline basically says it all for the benefit of our HaT tweetbot; here’s the link to the #ididnotreport hashtag on Twitter if you want to read.
How to do a homophobic political ad
Bob Katter’s Australia Party are running a homophobic television advertisement to try and convince Queenslanders to vote for them instead of the alternative conservative political party, the Liberal National Party (LNP) in the forthcoming state election.
Hoyden About Town 