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• Quickhit: James Cameron on the Lakota Sioux people

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-23 • ( 9 )

  The Guardian has this quote from James Cameron, director of the movie Avatar, which has been widely criticised as a White Saviour movie. (See our previous conversation on Avatar.) Cameron said witnessing indigenous ceremonies and meetings in the Amazon had… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Bazinga.

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-22 • ( 11 )

  And today’s LOLcat theme is: Bazinga: Superior cats are superior. Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-17 • ( 12 )

  Today’s Asian otters, Daz and Chip, reportedly lived together for fifteen years before dying within an hour of each other. They were 19 and 16 years old. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart… Read More ›

• Quickhit: A forensic semanticist on ‘sex’ and ‘rape’

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-16 • ( 3 )

  Tara Murtha at Philadelphia Weekly brings us Watch Your Language: Pedophilia, gang rape and erroneous Fox29 reporting, which has an opinion from a forensic semanticist about calling rape “having sex” or “a sexual relationship” in court: But after a recent… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: The Doctor, and Delurking Day

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-15 • ( 8 )

  Today’s Thursday Cheezburger follows the Doctor Who theming of this week… join in! Also – it’s Delurking Day! If you’ve been reading along, give us a shout and let us know you’re there. You’re welcome to say hi, introduce yourself,… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-10 • ( 10 )

  Today’s otter is no otter! It’s a bouncing stoat, courtesy of The Daily Squee. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to… Read More ›

• On what we talk about when we talk about “domestic violence”

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-09 • ( 22 )

  Why do we, as feminists (collectively), and as anti-violence activists in general, typically ignore the largest group of victims when we talk about domestic violence? The group that can’t get away under their own steam, no way, no how? The… Read More ›

• Down Under Feminists Carnival at Fat Lot of Good!

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-09

  Bri has an amazing Down Under Feminists Carnival, our Twenty-Third, up at Fat Lot of Good. There is a focus on Body Acceptance with a whole lot of good reading, and plenty more. Check it out, and spread the word!… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Kelly Vincent elected to Upper House in South Australia!

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-08 • ( 16 )

  The results have been declared! Image: A smiling Kelly Vincent, Dignity for Disability candidate, with a blue flower in her hair and holding a bouquet of pink roses, sits next to former leader of the Australian Democrats Natasha Stott-Despoja. South… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: The Unquiet Dead

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-08 • ( 6 )

  Continuing the supernatural theme, this week we have: The Unquiet Dead! Post your own favourite not-quite-dead LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct… Read More ›