What items of interest did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
Month: December 2013
The 67th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!
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?
Vale Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
Friday Hoyden: Graça Machel
With the news of the death of Nelson Mandela, for the next while there will be many reflections published on his life and its impact. It is worthwhile to take some time to think of one of the people who will be feeling his death most keenly, his wife Graça Machel.
Media Circus: some dinosaurs need a Bex and a lie down edition
@bencjenkins on how The Australian Would Like You To Get Off Its Goddamn Lawn: is this the best summary out there of possibly the most whargarrbl broadsheet editorial ever?
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
Slim people are happier, apparently.
Can we have happiness at every size?
I’m on #teamwerejectyourfalsedichotomy *and* #teamnotgonnashutup
So, the whole #teamelan vs #teamdianne thing that’s been keeping a large segment of the twitterverse, bookface and the blogosphere hatertained this weekend?
Signal Boost: Making Airwaves
Windgap Foundation has partnered with Eastside Radio 89.7FM, theatre professionals and DJs to develop the ‘Making Airwaves’ project, an opportunity for people with an intellectual disability to learn radio presentation and production skills, creating their own radio show to be aired on International Day of People with Disability, 3 December 2013.
