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• Wednesday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-09 • ( 4 )

  from i can has cheezburger.

• Step up, Rudd: Lib doctors throw down the gauntlet on foreign aid and abortion

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-08 • ( 12 )

  This may be a watershed: the Rudd government has been challenged to show its true colours on women’s rights. Way back in the twentieth century, the Liberal government faced a situation where a woman-hating theocon, Brian Harradine, held the balance… Read More ›

• Welcome Marion Scrymgour!

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-07 • ( 5 )

  [image source: SMH] It’s been a busy few weeks for under-represented groups in Australian politics, hasn’t it? My respect to Marion Scrymgour, who today became the first Indigenous Australian to lead a government. She is acting Chief Minister of the… Read More ›

• Prosecutor in Queensland rape case has resigned

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-05

  Steve Carter has resigned. The Australian reports: THE prosecutor in the Aurukun gang rape case, who sparked controversy when he described sexual offenders as “naughty” and did not recommend nine males who raped a 10-year-old girl be jailed, has resigned…. Read More ›

• Who made the seeds?

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-04 • ( 4 )

  [image source] We were examining seedless grapes after dinner, biting them in half to see what they look like inside, holding them up to light to examine the veining, peeling the skin off with our teeth. We noticed that they… Read More ›

• Another evpsych logic-wormhole: monkey-whores and the mating market

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-04 • ( 5 )

  [image source] via AFP: “Cost of coitus: Male monkeys pay for sex”. Weekly rag New Scientist is all over this paper by Gumert, who, surprise surprise, teaches evolutionary psychology, not primate biology. (I can’t get to full versions – can… Read More ›

• “conspire and collaborate”: quilting with 1s and 0s

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-03

  Sometime Guest Hoyden sajbrfem is putting the “feminism” back in “cyberfeminism”. This Cyberfeminism 101 slideshow is the first of her web-based art project, producing one cyberfeminism work per week for a year. This is the creative-practice part of a doctoral… Read More ›

• You – You – You – Non-cookie-cutter feminist, you!

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-03 • ( 46 )

  Har. Censorship fan Deborah Robinson has taken a swipe at me for criticising the government’s doomed, technically impossible “clean feed” scheme. After her stoush with Duncan Riley, she is now dismayed – dismayed! – that a FEMINIST writer could POSSIBLY… Read More ›

• The disability insurance merry-go-round

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-03 • ( 14 )

  So. Disability insurance forms. Why oh why did the bureaucrats get away with omitting the obvious item: a big-arse checkbox at the top of the six pages of paper, saying: “Is everything EXACTLY THE FUCKING SAME as it was 28… Read More ›

• “Find One With A Big Rack And Mount It”: Woman-hating hunter fashion

  By lauredhel on 2008-01-02 • ( 10 )

  After strangedave pointed to these creepy Blackwater baby onesies, I went looking for the infant hunting paraphernalia that had creeped me out in the past. I didn’t find the specific stuff, but I did stumble over some particularly misogynistic, dehumanising… Read More ›