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• Maningrida Legal Challenge to Territory Invasion: The new Wik/Mabo?

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-27 • ( 3 )

  Map of Arnhem Land showing Maningrida location [Image source: Burarra Gathering] I have a feeling the words “Maningrida” and “Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation” are going to be on everyone’s lips before long. The ABC and Age are now reporting that people… Read More ›

• Charles Perkins Oration: Marion Scrymgour

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-27 • ( 2 )

  [Image credit: NT Labor Party] Via Aboriginal Art & Culture, the full text of Marion Scrymgour’s Charles Perkins Oration from last week. Scrymgour is the first female Aboriginal Minister in an Australian parliament. Whose national emergency?“¨Caboolture and Kirribili? or Milikapiti… Read More ›

• International Day of Action on the NT Invasion, November 17

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-26 • ( 6 )

  From Fire Fly (at She Who Stumbles), the WOC blog, Vox ex Machina, Critical Bloggers, Automatic Preference, and Ubuntu: Call for Solidarity with Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory Stop the Invasion! International Day of Action, November 17th In June… Read More ›

• The gendered language of snark: help a Hoyden out

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-26 • ( 25 )

  “Drama queen”. “Attention whore”. “Pearl clutching”. “Flounce”. “Hysterical”. These are all insults based on the assigned femininity of the target (or on campness, a flavour of femininity). And that femininity is assumed to be an inherently negative characteristic. Our language… Read More ›

• Friday Hoydens: Peggy A. Whitson and Pamela A. Melroy

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-26 • ( 5 )

  [Image source: OC Register] This is the first time in history that two female mission commanders have been in orbit simultaneously – and they’ve now met in space. The New York Times reports : A hug today between the commanders… Read More ›

• Pond’s White Beauty.

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-23 • ( 8 )

  More from Unilever, makers of the Dove range and pushers of smoothified, hairless, almost-average-sized, cellulite-free “self-esteem” alongside Slim-fast and Axe/Lynx: Did you know that Pond’s “White Beauty” cream, pushed in India, Korea and Malaysia, is part of Unilever’s “international stable… Read More ›

• Up close and personal: Weekend Wildlife

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-21 • ( 2 )

  from whooz_queen. encounter exhibition heart

• Weekend Fun: Family Drabbles

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-20 • ( 6 )

  The lad, who has just turned five, has taken to asking for story challenges. We had a ball over dinner last night thinking of three things for a story to feature, and then listening to the result. My challenge to… Read More ›

• Difference of Opinion – on the NT recolonisation

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-20 • ( 2 )

  The ABC’s Difference of Opinion show this week (18 Oct 2007) examined the Northern Territory invasion and recolonisation of Aboriginal communities. You can read the full transcript of “A New Deal for Indigenous Australians?” here, or access partial video from… Read More ›

• Feminism and Romance – Rudman paper followup

  By lauredhel on 2007-10-19 • ( 2 )

  So I have a copy of the Rudman paper asserting that not all us feminists are fugly lonely lezzos after all. (My first post on the issue is here.) My initial response consisted mainly of a rejection of the patriarchal… Read More ›