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• Actually, fairytales weren’t always so sexist

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-07 • ( 14 )

  

  What modern mother hasn’t cringed at the pink and passive fairy tale princesses served up to her impressionable girl? The Disney versions of Snow White and Cinderella, Belle and Rapunzel are heroines of such vapid foolishness one wonders how they… Read More ›

• 10 rules for women blogging about their relationship woes

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-07 • ( 4 )

  

  Before beginning your rant, and it will be a rant because you’re a woman writing this, always start that post with an apologetic, introductory paragraph about how truly nice your partner is and how he (and he will be a… Read More ›

• Sunday Poet: Adrienne Rich

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-01 • ( 4 )

  

  These are the words that made me love Adrienne Rich’s work: This is what living with children could be – without school hours, fixed routines, naps, the conflict of being both mother and wife with no room for being simply,… Read More ›

• Sunday Poet: Maya Angelou

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-25 • ( 5 )

  

  Dr Maya Angelou has changed autobiographical writing forever for all women, but especially for black women. I cannot tell you how much I love Dr Angelou’s poem, Still I Rise and there is something so special about hearing her recite… Read More ›

• When the zombies come what will happen to feminism?

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-21 • ( 6 )

  

  Having discovered that Womanist Musings and Viva la Feminista are both Walking Dead fans and then there’s also me and one of my bestest and oldest feminist friends who are completely mad for zombies, I think we can safely say… Read More ›

• Proctor & Gamble don’t get it

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-21 • ( 5 )

  

  Recently I was emailed by Proctor & Gamble wondering if I may be interested in posting something for International Women’s Day about the surveying they had just undertaken exploring “the changing face of motherhood”. Not changing quite fast enough. Here’s… Read More ›

• Sunday Singalong: Deborah Conway

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-18 • ( 4 )

  

  Deborah Conway has been putting feminism in her songs since back when she was the lead singer in the Australian band, Do Re Mi in the 1980s. Remember lyrics like this in Man Overboard?

• I love this father

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-18 • ( 7 )

  

  Father and daughter in matching Wonder Woman-inspired outfits at WonderCon and both looking positively wonderful.

• Because women’s equality has not always existed like grass and trees.. it had to be fought for

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-13 • ( 11 )

  

  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”

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-13 • ( 4 )

  

  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.