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• Torture couture from Galliano

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-07 • ( 17 )

  Speechless. Via the SMH, the new men’s collection from John Galliano, inspired by Abu Ghraib, and complete with bleeding neck and chest wounds, black hoods, and nooses. Photos below the cut.

• Pop quiz: Women in Parliament

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-05 • ( 5 )

  Pop quiz! Pick the comment that came from the WA Liberal Party Women’s Affairs Spokesperson: 1. “There’s a definite flirtation level (from some male MPs) that does make you feel a bit awkward at times, you know because some of… Read More ›

• Baggy vaginas are Out for 2008: stiletto-therapy agenda science

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-05 • ( 15 )

  [image via Feminist Law Profs] We really need some new and stronger synonyms for “festering bilge”. Today’s media fashion tips are all about how we need to rectify our baggy vaginas with fashion therapy. From the Courier Mail comes the… Read More ›

• Troy Buswell: In His Own Words

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-04 • ( 17 )

  [image source] Has anyone noticed a particular pattern in the speech of Troy Buswell, Leader of the WA Liberal Party? ABC News: “Walker-Buswell meeting set for today” quotes Buswell as saying: “I always have and will continue to respect Sue’s… Read More ›

• “Groovy pediatrician”, says Christopher Noxon – uh, no.

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-01 • ( 7 )

  Off the Reuters feed, this bizarre article from Christopher Noxon, author of Rejuvenile. ” Has enthusiasm for breastfeeding gone too far?“, he asks. I almost didn’t read it, expecting the usual rant about “nipple Nazis” and “starving babies” from a… Read More ›

• Mitt Romney and his Black Best Friends

  By lauredhel on 2008-02-01 • ( 12 )

  Oh my, this is embarrassing. Major cringe warning. Mormon Republican candidate Mitt Romney gathers with a group of African American teenagers at a Martin Luther King Day parade. He spontaneously bursts into a chorus of “Who Let The Dogs Out?”… Read More ›

• Gestation Anxiety: the othering of intentional single motherhood

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-31 • ( 3 )

  “Maverick Mother” is playing on SBS tomorrow, Friday February 1, at 10 pm. (on XY Doc). [1] “Brave stuff”. “Controversial”. ABC’s Life Matters has this to say about Janet Merewether’s autodocumentary, “Maverick Mother”. Did Merewether climb Mt Everest? Take her… Read More ›

• Neale Fong and Jim McGinty: the plot thickens.

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-30 • ( 7 )

  Ah, Western Australian politics. Such a festering sewer. I wrote last week about Neale Fong, overpaid Health Department bigwig, being forced to resign. The trigger was the Crime and Corruption Commission report recommending disciplinary action and possible prosecution – after… Read More ›

• Taken in Hand: Sculpture in the Hills

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-29 • ( 4 )

  We all know about the penis-spire on the cover art of the Little Mermaid. (Snopes claims that any resemblance to any phallus, living or dead, is purely accidental.) Little did I know that Perth has its very own life sculpture… Read More ›

• Gomboc!

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-28 • ( 4 )

  “A shape whose impossibility might have been an elegant theorem, but whose existence may be much more elegant.” – Chandler-Davis, editor-in-chief, The Mathematical Intelligencer Presenting: The Gomboc! I’m no mathematician, but this is cool. The Gomboc is the world’s first… Read More ›