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  By lauredhel on 2007-05-20 • ( 5 )

  Art courtesy of logansrogue:

• ‘Cos fat chicks can’t be raped

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-20 • ( 10 )

  Posted without comment, because it doesn’t need one. The London News reports: ‘Rape’ girl grateful for sex, says lawyer A teenage girl who claims she was gang raped by three 13-year-old schoolboys was overweight and would have been “glad of… Read More ›

• Peeve Week: “militant feminist”

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-17 • ( 9 )

  Peeve Week continues here in my little corner of Hoyden About Town. Today, three things I am sick of reading: “Militant feminist.” “Feminazi.” “Feminist jihad.” Given the strong links between feminism and peace/anti-violence movements, can we please just expunge these… Read More ›

• Obfuscating Rape

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-17 • ( 8 )

  Turns out there are multiple ways of obfuscating rape in the news. This news story, for example. [cut for child rape triggers]

• Healthist cheerleading

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-15 • ( 2 )

  Disease ‘n’ disability romanticists need to read this, at Twisty’s place. Twisty has a pile of sometimes scary and always downright nasty post-cancer-treatment symptoms. I’m even hopping madder that I find myself capitulating. “So how’re you doing?” people ask me,… Read More ›

• Linkalectable #1: Radfem Carnival, prison in Uganda, the medico-rehabilitatio-industrial complex, the Australian Budget, and women go to bat against foreign multinationals in the Philippines

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-12 • ( 1 )

  Linkalectable. 1. The First Carnival of Radical Feminists at Women’s Space. Heart grounds current-day radical feminism in the history of the movement, recalls the many achievements of radical feminism, and smacks down the dismissive dysperception that radfems are immersed in… Read More ›

• Snippets of good news on reproductive rights: Skin Of Our Teeth edition

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-11 • ( 7 )

  I bring you four snippets of good news on reproductive rights, two from the USA, one from Ireland, and one from Mexico. People are fighting for women’s rights, and in some places they’re hanging on — just. I think the… Read More ›

• Another one for the social crime list: Parenting While Disabled

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-09 • ( 4 )

  A few days ago, I talked a bit about invisible disability and the access issues that people seem to just not think about. Today I’ve been reading the Blogging Against Disablism Day posts at Diary of a Goldfish. Tokah has… Read More ›

• “I’ve never known what happened to that woman.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-09

  Good Enough Mum narrates her journey from being pro-life in her youth to be pro-choice today. She tells the story of a woman she saw in her final year of medical school. The woman was carrying an anencephalic fetus, and… Read More ›

• Astronomer makes wistful call for gender apartheid

  By lauredhel on 2007-05-08 • ( 5 )

  Sir Patrick Moore, EU segregationist, is perturbed about women getting their hooks into public life. Bewailing the domestification of television, he today launched a diatribe reminiscing about the “golden days” when the BBC was an shrine to testosterone, and lamenting… Read More ›