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• Poverty, “Risky Behaviour”, and the Virtuous Healthy-Sick-Person Interrogation

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-06 • ( 9 )

  WA Today reports that poor people who have been seriously ill die sooner after hospital discharge than wealthy people do. No surprises there – we all know that poor people have poorer health outcomes across the board. The results of… Read More ›

• “Blog your way to happiness”

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-06 • ( 2 )

  [These random happybloggers, who are definitely not Helen and Suze, come to you courtesy of manmadepants on Flickr and a Creative Commons licence.] Hoydenizens Helen and Suze both featured in an Age article this week, “Blog your way to happiness“…. Read More ›

• A paean to “radical feminist” organisation the Girl Scouts of America

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-05 • ( 11 )

  The threat: bone-chillingly radical feminist Girl Scouts. Mississippi-based Christian “news” service One News Now claims to offer up “news without the liberal bias”. It also offers up news without that dastardly word “gay”, as Jeff Fecke and Melissa have noted… Read More ›

• Otterday!

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-05 • ( 2 )

  I love love love today’s otter. This baby river otter was found wandering around Petaluma with his friends. After stopping into a tavern and an auto parts store, they were guided to a more appropriate creek by Sonoma County Wildlife… Read More ›

• Down Under Feminists Carnival: Second Edition!

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-05

  I am chuffed to announce that the Second Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is now up at In A Strange Land! Lots of weekend reading for you there: check it out. And please post a pointer to it… Read More ›

• Big Brother UK: Darnell says blind housemate Mikey not a “performing monkey”

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-04 • ( 4 )

  There are two people with disabilities in Big Brother UK this year. Mikey and Darnell are not being presented by the production team purely as “The Disabled Housemates”, with their disability as the only facet of stereotyped caricatures. They don’t… Read More ›

• Thomas Beatie gives birth to healthy baby daughter

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-04 • ( 2 )

  Thomas Beatie, the pregnant man who had everyone chattering about his challenge to their notions of gender fixedness, has given birth to a healthy daughter. Thomas, a transman, decided to become pregnant by artificial insemination. His wife Nancy was unable… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-03 • ( 2 )

• Tick-a-box sexual harassment apologism from “Lefty” Tim

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-02 • ( 18 )

  My status as a staunch “Lefty” Tim Brunero fan has been moribund for most of this season, and it’s now officially dead. On Big Brother Australia, Rory was in the shower as Terri was approaching. He masturbated till he was… Read More ›

• Is “pregnancy pact” the new MSM code for child rape?

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-01 • ( 8 )

  The West proclaims: “Parents form bizarre pregnancy pact with teen”. The article opens with a description of what initially is made out to sound like a (bizarre and exploitative, but mutually agreed) surrogacy arrangement between mother, stepfather, and 15 year… Read More ›