This rather highlighted in my mind exactly how rarely this happens in the media. Teenage girls as experts in their own experience?
Year: 2012
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.
Femmostroppo Reader, March 12 2012
Items of interest I’ve recently tweeted. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
Sunday Singalong: Alanis Morisette
I’ll come right out and be honest and say that I’m not a huge Alanis Morisette fan but you know she did make one of the best angry, break-up songs ever and it feels good to have one of those written from the woman’s point of view.
Hoyden About Town 