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• Wednesday Quick Pic(k)s

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-05

  Oohsome has a couple of groovy women’s-bits jewellery up at the moment. Uterus earrings Oestrogen necklace

• Followup: medical rape in Australia

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-05 • ( 6 )

  Another rapist doctor has been busted – this time, Toorak dermatologist David Wee Kin Tong, who pled guilty on criminal charges for raping seven women and indecently assaulting another seven. The Victorian Medical Board had previously dismissed two allegations of… Read More ›

• Turn-of-the-century futurism: “Hot And Cold Air From Spigots”

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-04 • ( 5 )

  For those who like the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment series, you’ll love this set of futuristic predictions from the Ladies’ Home Journal of 1901. [There’s a full text transcription here.] Metafilter users, despite their habitual and understandable scepticism, have… Read More ›

• Carnival Against Sexual Violence

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-03

  The 42nd Carnival against Sexual Violence is up at abyss2hope. There are posts on legal issues, a media watch section, and posts on personal stories, raising awareness, recovery, research, and solutions. Check it out.

• Re-victimisation for fun and profit: more Goliath, less David

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-03 • ( 9 )

  A few days ago, Jessica’s Feministing post on a pro-rape shirt stimulated an email-writing campaign against the perps, “David and Goliath”. The shirt was pulled the next day. Success! David and Goliath immediately released this T-shirt, with the following frustrated… Read More ›

• Arthropod-human convergence: 2 creatures enter,

  By lauredhel on 2008-03-02 • ( 4 )

  su has a story about a grasshopper in her dreams. Well, not so much in them as on them, or rather crawling around on her head while she was dreaming. This reminded her of a childhood impression, dreamfuzz-sprinkled, of a… Read More ›

• “It is a great mistake to allow the girl to attend lectures …”

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-29 • ( 7 )

  Remember the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment? It’s baaaack! For Teh Portly Dyke, I present: “On The Threshold of Womanhood: Puberty, or Adolescence”. A careful explanation of a mother’s responsibility to guide and manage her daughter’s fragile pubertal state, so… Read More ›

• Feminist motherhood: a definition

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-29 • ( 19 )

  Feminist motherhood: the radical notion that children are people. [After reading this, and this.]

• Gender-switching fiction: Viola’s Bookshelf

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-28 • ( 2 )

  Viola’s Bookshelf is a new project blog dedicated to publishing altered out of copyright, or creative commons licensed fiction, where the character’s genders have been reversed. The idea behind this is to help provide an understanding of gender construction in… Read More ›

• Launching: Holla Back Australia!

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-28 • ( 1 )

  Women have been exposing their harassers and attackers on Hollaback NYC and the other North American Hollabacks for three years now. So sajbrfem and I have decided to launch: Holla Back Australia! It’s empty right now, of course – so… Read More ›