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• Wordless Friday: Toy Store Abominations

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-30 • ( 12 )

• Linkblurt: We are assaulted

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-29 • ( 3 )

  *WARNINGS apply to this post – descriptions of assault and abuse of people with disabilities, including sexual abuse*

• Law & Order: “Dignity”, Worth, and the Medical Model of Disability

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-29 • ( 25 )

  [x-posted from FWD/Forward: Feminists With Disabilities] As a feminist, I am pro-choice. Abortion should be safe, legal, and accessible. As a feminist, I look at more than whether single, individual women have access to abortion. There is a much broader… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Are We Safe Yet?

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-29 • ( 7 )

  Are we safe yet? Runner-up:

• More for the “men stand by while other men beat their property” files

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-27 • ( 9 )

  Further to the Amazing Race assault post, another example of how men will just stand around while a man beats a woman, so long as they can assume that the woman is the man’s property. Etana at Fatshionista writes “When… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Lesbian mums are “offensive language”, say Scholastic censors

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-27 • ( 6 )

  At change.org: You have to wonder why an organization dedicated to getting students to read would decide to make censorship such an important part of their work. […] But that’s what Scholastic Books is doing by banning a book from… Read More ›

• OBs denying doula access: Where’s the SCIENCE!!!1!?

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-26 • ( 12 )

  Can someone show me again the SCIENCE!!!1! behind denying access to a doula during maternity care? Here are a few excerpts of papers I found, mixed in type (quantitative research, qualitative research, meta-analysis, review), on doula care. Emphases are mine…. Read More ›

• Assault and battery on the Amazing Race

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-26 • ( 16 )

  Does anyone here keep up with The Amazing Race? I’ve just been completely wigged out by the casual showing of partner-on-partner abuse, including assault and battery. No one on the show said a word or attempted to intervene. Just expected… Read More ›

• Can’t grab a Flickr image URL any more? Here’s a fix.

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-25 • ( 1 )

  Some flickr-using bloggers might have wondered why they suddenly can’t right-click (double-finger-tap, etc) one of their images from a main photo page to “Copy Image Location” any more. This is apparently a result of flickr’s new People In Photos feature,… Read More ›

• Utah OB practice declares its misogyny up front

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-25 • ( 37 )

  The Birth Whisperer (and just about everyplace else in the birthosphere) has published a sign posted in the Aspen Women’s Center in Utah, USA. Description: A teal sign on an office wall, reading: Because the physicians at Aspen Women’s Center… Read More ›