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• “The Open-Source Boob Project”

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-23 • ( 28 )

  This is just a post full of shameless feminist fangirling about machineplay on LJ. You may have heard by now about the Heinlein-lovin’ dude who thinks he invented objectification and groping at Penguicon, and who stormed out of his con… Read More ›

• Godbags smacked down: Advertising Standards Bureau

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-23 • ( 5 )

  You might remember a discussion on the Cast Iron Balcony about the panty-sniffing godbag scum who recently did a large letter-drop of graphic material advocating forced pregnancy as policy. The anti-abortion culprits call themselves the “Tell The Truth” coalition. Their… Read More ›

• From Little Things, Big Things Grow: the GetUp Mob

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-21 • ( 8 )

  Making pop songs from political speeches seems to be becoming a trend. The GetUp Mob has set the Apology to music. The song originates in Paul Kelly’s “From Little Things, Big Things Grow”, written in the 80s about the 1966… Read More ›

• Carnival of Radical Feminists

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-21

  The Thirteenth Carnival of Radical Feminists is now up at Shut Up, Sit Down.

• Quick summit observations

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-21 • ( 11 )

  Edit: My Blogging Against Disablism day contribution on this issue is now up here: “BADD: The radical notion that people with disabilities are people, and Australia’s 2020 Summit” ~~~ A couple of things I noticed about the Health section of… Read More ›

• Contraceptive implants for disabled Aboriginal 12-year-old girls

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-20 • ( 6 )

  Quick hit, because spoons are low, but I don’t see this being discussed anywhere: There are reports that 12-year-old girls with disabilities in rural/remote Aboriginal communities are having implants placed with questionable or non-existent consent procedures, and minimal discussion of… Read More ›

• Parliamentary Pinkification Panic: the Spanish “Zapettes”

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-17 • ( 9 )

  The Spanish ministry has suddenly shot to gender equality, and you know what that means, don’t you, Hoydenizens? It’s fashion week at the Telegraph! The female Spanish and French ministers, individuality-free and named as appendages of the men in charge… Read More ›

• BFP’s words

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-17 • ( 1 )

  Read this. Read it, listen to it, hear it, believe it, act on it.

• Hollaback Douchehound of the Week: “A Pub is a Sexualised Space”

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-16 • ( 11 )

  This pompous arse wins Hollaback Australia Douchehound Commenter[1] of the Week. The prize? Nothing more or less than our eternal mocking and disdain. Posted here in full for your, erm, edification. This story does not fit into your mandate of… Read More ›

• Saint Magnus would not approve: Churchie gay formal

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-15 • ( 3 )

  [image cribbed from Pinknews] The Most Reverend Phillip Aspinall, Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane and president of the school council of “Churchie”, the all-boys Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, is in the news. Churchie, where manly men are made under… Read More ›