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• Stolen Generations experiments: Australia’s Tuskegee?

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-15 • ( 3 )

  [image source: Turing Foundation] News.com.au: Aboriginal children ‘injected with leprosy’ Allegations have arisen that Aboriginal children from the Stolen Generation may have been infected with leprosy or injected with experimental medication while institutionalised. The issue was raised during a Senate… Read More ›

• Sexual harassment ‘jokes’: still not funny. Hayden Panettiere on Funny or Die

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-15 • ( 4 )

  From “Funny or Die“, via Oh No They Didn’t, via whooz_queen: Hayden Panettiere (star of Heroes) drops the ball attempting to satirise sexual harassment in this faux-PSA: Transcript: [Panettiere is standing in a plain dark dress facing the camera, hands… Read More ›

• New Governor-General: feminist Quentin Bryce

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-14 • ( 8 )

  [image source] Our new Governor-General, Quentin Bryce; lawyer, academic, and activist for women and for human rights. How awesome is that? On blog quietness: tigtog’s dealing with her family stuff, I’ve got a nassssty bug. Do please feel free to… Read More ›

• Saturday is Bug Day

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-12

  Remember baroquestar’s beautiful bee? Now, a ladybird. Awwww. Anyone else got any great bug photos?

• Question of the day: Skirmishes with strawfeminism

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-11 • ( 9 )

  Today, I was asked about straw-feminist stereotypes, about the ongoing battles we have knocking them down, and about how tedious and tiring it is fighting the same crap over and over and over again. The skirmishes tend to be conducted… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Susan Butcher

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-11 • ( 1 )

  This Friday Hoyden is a guest post from huckle. Huckle is a feminist who is slowly turning from resentfully compliant to cheerfully grumpy as she gets older. She is a single mum who works full time. She grows organic vegies,… Read More ›

• WOC ‘Engage best through negative discourse’: Seal Press

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-10 • ( 13 )

  You know how Seal Press aren’t at all racist? And how these book covers[1] are just all mass-market-fun and goofball and ironic and hilarious and why must you always be so serious and critique-y and stuff anyway? Well. The amazing… Read More ›

• Move to close WA Parliamentary sexual harassment loophole

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-08 • ( 1 )

  Remember we were all wondering a few months ago how Troy Buswell had managed to continue his rise to the leadership of the Western Australian Liberal Party, despite his history of sexually harassing colleagues and staffers alike?

• Hospital predator’s appeal rejected: blames rape on victim, non-existent mental health disorder

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-08 • ( 8 )

  Just another example[1] of the way in which vulnerable girls are used and abused by men who think they’re entitled to their bodies. This particular rapist was supposed to be tending to his hospitalised son overnight, but instead he decided… Read More ›

• Brian McKinstry whines about women taking over medicine

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-07 • ( 10 )

  This prat thinks there are too many women in medicine, recklessly dragging quality standards up. For some reason, the British Medical Journal decided to host a trite debate on the subject, “Are there too many female medical graduates?” The “Yes”… Read More ›