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• How to do a homophobic political ad

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-12 • ( 11 )

  

  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.

• Sunday Singalong: Alanis Morisette

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-11 • ( 8 )

  

  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.

• Sunday Poet: Sarah Jones

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-04 • ( 3 )

  

  Image: not so long ago, Sarah Jones performed at the White House for Women’s History Month after receiving an invitation from First Lady Michelle Obama and here is a picture from that occasion. Sarah Jones is a Tony Award winning… Read More ›

• I get very confused about being a feminazi sometimes

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-02 • ( 14 )

  

  Do I have too much sex with men or am I a man-hater? (Thanks to Jane for the has-to-be-read-to-be-believed link, and this is cross-posted at blue milk).  

• There is a difference between sexualising and sexuality

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-03-02 • ( 2 )

  

  In short: sexualization is performance; it’s all about being desirable to others. Sexuality is understanding and connecting to your own desire. At the reading, Orenstein shared this passage from Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Let me be clear here: I object–… Read More ›

• Sunday Singalong: Hole

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-02-26 • ( 8 )

  

  Image credit. I have been dying to do Hole for a Sunday Singalong because they’re easily my favourite ‘angry young women’ (and one man) band of all time. Courtney Love, who loves word play and drilling into the sexism of… Read More ›

• About #ditchthewitch

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-02-26 • ( 11 )

  

  Image credit. Last night on Twitter, amongst the heated debate about Julia Gillard versus Kevin Rudd for Labor Prime Minister of Australia emerged the hashtag #ditchthewitch. It is a belittling, sexist slogan borrowed from the far right of Australia, who… Read More ›

• Living as a feminist

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-02-22 • ( 1 )

  When Rachel Cusk wrote about motherhood in A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother, I felt heard. It wasn’t my story, exactly, but it was closer to my story of the early days of motherhood than others were writing. This… Read More ›

• Sunday Composer: Zoë Keating

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-02-19 • ( 4 )

  

  Try singing along to this? You can’t, no lyrics, so it’s not a singalong exactly but she’s a composer and we all need a soundtrack for the movie of our lives and I think I choose her to compose mine…. Read More ›

• Sunday Singalong: Pussy Riot

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-02-05 • ( 1 )

  

  So, I did have somebody else lined up for the Sunday artsy fartsy post this weekend but jumping right to the front of the queue is my newly discovered find, Pussy Riot. Russian, feminist, punk riot band with anti-Putin lyrics…. Read More ›