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• Hanging out the washing

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-08-05 • ( 4 )

  Yes, it really is a post about hanging out the washing. Five seconds of your life that you’ll never get back. Oh Kerry, please do ask me. Back of the t-shirt. (What does that even mean?) And my todder son… Read More ›

• Adventures from the frontline: running my first anti-sexism workshop with young children

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-07-31 • ( 15 )

  

  I ran my first anti-sexism workshop for children last week. They were a Montessori class of 5-6 year olds and I concentrated on questioning gender stereotypes, identifying sexism and a little bit of acceptance stuff of gender queer identities. I… Read More ›

• This is what you meant isn’t it?

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-07-28 • ( 12 )

  .. when you said you want to wear white and be a princess for a day?

• Shows us your cats

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-07-27 • ( 1 )

  Image: Tacocat I highly recommend “Sexist Queers” by Bree McKenna over at the Stranger about the expectations placed on feminists by their own community and the sexism of music media: I’ve always wanted to write a review of a dude… Read More ›

• Mothers working, not the end of the world

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-07-27 • ( 2 )

  Conducted by researchers at University College London, it surveyed 19,000 British households to determine how parental employment affects a child’s behaviour throughout the first five years of life.

  The results will startle those who think that children benefit from having a stay-at-home mum. In fact, the paper indicates that maternal employment can often improve the chances of having well-adjusted kids.

• Farewell Margaret Olley

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-07-26 • ( 2 )

  Margaret Olley died today. She was 88 years old. One of Australia’s most distinguished painters and supporters of young and emerging artists, Olley was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1991. She spoke openly about her efforts to overcome both alcoholism and then later in life depression …

• To the woman unconvinced

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-06-24 • ( 5 )

  OK sure, believe that some women need to take responsibility for preventing their own rapes if you want to but keep four things in mind.

• Stick with this one, there’s a surprise

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-06-24 • ( 8 )

  

  More information here.

• Driven to be free

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-06-17 • ( 4 )

  Best of luck to the Saudi women drivers and their supporters today. (You can follow this extraordinary campaign on twitter at #Women2Drive).

• Today in sexism

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-06-02 • ( 14 )

  Finance Minister Senator Penny Wong gets called ‘catty’ in Parliament by Coalition member, Senator David Bushby and addresses it head on. See the video here.