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• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-03 • ( 34 )

  Today’s Otterday is hosted by an April First Loch Ness Otter, courtesy of Beg Bits, a wildlife tour operator in Mull. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening… Read More ›

• It’s Carnival time! Submit your posts now.

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-02

  The Twenty-Third Edition (can you believe it?) of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! The deadline for submissions is the 2nd of April – tomorrow – so get your posts in now. This 23rd edition will be hosted… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Vampire Kittehs

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-01 • ( 14 )

  Today’s theme is… Vampires! Post your own favourite vampire (or werewolf!) LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only… Read More ›

• Fire in the frost: Feisty Olympians defy the odds

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-01 • ( 15 )

  As the opening quarter of 2010 draws to a close, we look back on what I believe is the one of the highlights of the year: the Winter Olympics in February. In this event, a whole different kind of athletic… Read More ›

• Logansrogue IS Teh Feminist Cabal, sez Crazy Domains

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-30 • ( 15 )

  Remember Crazy Domains and their jizztastic cream-jaculatin’ Pamela Anderson advertisement? The one pulled by the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB)? Gavin Collins, Managing Director, is throwing a tanty. And he blames one little post on livejournal for all his problems. This… Read More ›

• The Daily Mail song

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-30 • ( 3 )

  Most of you probably know about the UK right-wing middle-class-white-grievance-pandering newspaper the Daily Mail, aka the Daily Fail and a variety of other nicknames. Dan & Dan Films made a song about it.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-27 • ( 9 )

  Today’s Otterday, snapped at the Edinburgh Zoo, comes from lukedor on flickr. 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 get off… Read More ›

• Breastfeeding people protected in WA at last

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-25

  I’ve blogged before about the fight to get breastfeeding included in Western Australia’s anti-discrimination legislation. That fight is logged below – now, for purely historical reasons! Because today, finally, the Equal Opportunity Amendment Bill 2009 passed the Upper House of… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Real Life Bugs

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-25 • ( 2 )

  Today’s theme: Bugs In Real Life. 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 to an image only… Read More ›

• Parliamentary chamber inaccessible to Kelly Vincent

  By lauredhel on 2010-03-25 • ( 7 )

  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. I linked a few days ago… Read More ›