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• Expressing milk? Call the cops!

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-27 • ( 21 )

  I can barely see through my anger and disgust right now. I’m going to let the story speak for itself. “Express delivery furore” The mother of a five-month-old baby was followed and questioned by police and security guards after she… Read More ›

• DNC protests – live stream

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-26 • ( 3 )

  Denver Post: “Police use spray to force back protesters in Civic Center”. The protestors are thought to be part of Recreate 68. For those following the protests outside the Democratic National Convention, here’s a live stream. [Via bfp’s twitter.] Feel… Read More ›

• Newsflash: Kyle Payne jailed

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-26 • ( 36 )

  Iowa Independent: Blogger Kyle Payne sentenced to six months in county jail Payne received 360 days, with 180 days suspended on each of two counts of invasion of privacy, a serious misdemeanor charge. He was also given one year of… Read More ›

• No more funding for Queensland Mothers Milk Bank

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-26 • ( 7 )

  Australia has only two milk banks, one in Perth and one on the Gold Coast. They do important work. The Queensland non-profit Mothers Milk Bank, based at John Flynn Private Hospital, has noted that premature and ill babies fed human… Read More ›

• Women reduced to a disembodied womb, GetUp edition

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-25 • ( 10 )

  GetUp, a large Australian anti-conservative action group, has a Paid Parental Leave campaign on at the moment. Yes, bravo, etc. (They do confuse parental and maternity leave, but that’s another story.) When we’re talking equal pay, we get faces. But… Read More ›

• Institutionalised violence against women in China, redux

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-25 • ( 6 )

  At the beginning of the Olympics, I posted “Olympics Special: Forced Abortion in China”, intending that it should be the start of a two-week series on institutionalised violence against women and girls in China. That series didn’t eventuate. In my… Read More ›

• The Man Who Would Be Veep

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-24 • ( 23 )

  Careful you don’t split your sides. [via Shakesville]

• Girl-Wonder announces the Con Anti-Harassment Project

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-23 • ( 3 )

  Remember the Penguicon “Open Source Boob Project” that took place at Penguicon, and the resulting grassroots idea – the “Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Project“? Feminist comics fandom site Girl-Wonder has formalised things a little more, and has… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Weekend Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-23 • ( 21 )

  Today’s happy sea otter comes from sgrace on flickr. Please feel free to use this thread as an open thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get… Read More ›

• 63rd Carnival of the Feminists

  By lauredhel on 2008-08-23

  I missed this last week! The Mind of Genevieve has published the 63rd Carnival of the Feminists. There is plenty of reading on street harassment, video games, TV, not taking people’s crap, marketing, being queer in Lebanon, teenage parenting, the… Read More ›