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• Friday Fizzicks Fun

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-01 • ( 1 )

  Have you ever wondered what happens when you add an Alka Seltzer effervescent tablet to a sphere of water in microgravity? Now you know! The narrator opens with: “I hope you folks are trying to guess what’s going to happen… Read More ›

• Thursday Soapblogging, May 2007 edition

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-31 • ( 8 )

  Further to last month’s effort, I bring you this month’s soapblogging! Once again, rubbish camera, poor light, yadda yadda. Feel free to enthuse about the “artistic” effect. Raspberries ‘N’ Cream

• Referendum Roundup, and Indigenous Health “Report Card”

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-30 • ( 3 )

  A few people are blogging about the tenth anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report, and the the 40th anniversary of the referendum that decided that Australian indigenous people are human, that they should be counted in the Australian census…. Read More ›

• Motherless birthing, and the one-way street of obstetric “choice”

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-30 • ( 12 )

  In another case of the disappearing agent, Australian newspapers have been breathlessly reporting the amazing case of an intrepid Australian doctor “performing” the delivery of a healthy baby with nothing but a first aid kit and an oxygen mask –… Read More ›

• Australian linguistocide, and antipodeal approaches to aboriginal education

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-26 • ( 4 )

  I have a Google News alert set up for, among many other things, the word “aboriginal”. Yesterday, two contrasting stories dropped into my inbox. First, ABC News (Australia) reports that it’s indigenous people’s own darn fault if they’re unemployed and… Read More ›

• Feed the wo-orld… one baby, anyhow.

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-25 • ( 17 )

  UPDATE: 4 June 2007 Jill Youse has finally responded in the Mothering forums. We were absolutely correct. Prolacta is skimming off 75% of milk donated by mothers for Africa, for sale and for profit within the USA. Prolacta is “reimbursing”… Read More ›

• Sorry Matters, and Assimilation

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-25 • ( 6 )

  Over the past week there has been a huge amount of discussion in the femiblogosphere about dropping the defensive, domineering blustering and starting to listen to people of colour. Listening has got to be step one if there is to… Read More ›

• Invisible Lesbians!

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-24 • ( 1 )

  Over on Larvatus Prodeo, people have been discussing the “invisible lesbians” in (or rather, not in) the press photo of Mary Cheney and Heather Poe’s brand new son. Cheney and Bush have all been carefully skirting press questions about their… Read More ›

• Politicking While Female: Julia Gillard and the “sex class”

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-23 • ( 16 )

  The ABC News reports today: Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has suggested the Government’s work place policies are not as popular as Labor’s because he is not as pretty as Julia Gillard. […] He says the Government’s poor poll results… Read More ›

• Young women’s activism: the next generation of abortion doctors

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-22 • ( 5 )

  The La Time reports on what motivates the new generation of abortion doctors in the USA. Lederer, 30, can’t relate to the images that drew an older generation of physicians into abortion work. She can barely picture it when they… Read More ›