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• Image du jour: Girl cancer!

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-24 • ( 11 )

  The March, 2007 edition of Australian Family Physician magazine is a special issue on gynaecological malignancies. I’m boggling at this cover illustration. What do you think? (click for larger version)

• ACT parliament improves its mother-friendliness

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-24 • ( 3 )

  [Image credit: The Age, “Charlotte Makes a Meal of Question Time“] Cheers to the ACT parliament for becoming the first parliament in Australia to get Australian Breastfeeding Association accreditation as a breastfeeding-friendly workplace, as reported in IBN News. The ABA… Read More ›

• Foregrounding the object redux: rape research from the UK

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-22 • ( 5 )

  A while back, I wrote about the effects of the passive voice and agent deletion in media reporting of sexual violence, in Passive Aggression: Foregrounding the Object. An article in the UK Telegraph hit me between the eyes today: Four… Read More ›

• Our own desert places

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-22 • ( 6 )

  I have succumbed to the July lurgy, so today: an invitation to join me in Stuff I Have Been Reading. Don’t miss the stuff below the cut. Jane Simpson is amazing. Aboriginal Poets We are tired of the benches, our… Read More ›

• Friday fun: A day at home

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-20 • ( 7 )

  The lad’s not quite 100% today, and we’ve kicked back at home with some movies, popcorn, and a box of drawing tools. He decided to draw a pageful of “monsters”. And here it is. Caption by the lad: “A scary… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Keiko Fukuda

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-20 • ( 2 )

  I was a judo player through my university years. Judo was an essential ingredient in my personal realisation of my bodily strength and mental power. I learned that I could jump, fall, roll, lift, and throw; and I learned that… Read More ›

• The useless bit of flesh around a vagina

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-19 • ( 11 )

  [Image credit: Cincinnati Institute for Reproductive Health] I think every feminist has a least favourite term for “women”. And they’re all teeth-grindingly offensive in different ways: “girls”, “broads”, “chicks”, “babes”, “coeds”, “fillies”, “skirts”. Meredith Clark offers an article on the… Read More ›

• World inside-out

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-19 • ( 5 )

  This is a really neat map with continents/oceans reversed. [Via Vex Appeal.] I’ve been trying to work out why this map has captivated me so much. For a start, I love maps. Since I can remember, I can pore over… Read More ›

• You’re not worth it.

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-18 • ( 3 )

  As Tigtog discussed while I had this post desultorily in draft (it’s school holidays here!), the Daily Telegraph has posted a followup on CityRail’s complete lack of any workable emergency evacuation plans for people who can’t walk: CityRail plan to… Read More ›

• What do disabled people, fat people, and indigenous languages have in common? They’re not disposable.

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-16 • ( 3 )

  Read ‘Ems for today: Sunday Telegraph: Quadriplegic left on train Mark McCauley, a man with quadriplegia, was abandoned on a New South Wales CityRail train for four hours when the train lost power. The ambulatory passengers were all evacuated one… Read More ›