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• Monsters vs Aliens – Feminist Win, Feminist Fail?

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-11 • ( 2 )

  I had read that Monsters vs Aliens, the latest Dreamworks animated feature and homage to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, is a feminist flick. And so it is, in a way; the central storyline has a definite feminist bent… Read More ›

• SUCCESS! On Disabled Parking “Harmonisation” Activism

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-11 • ( 11 )

  Read the background here: “CALL TO ACTIVISM – Many people with disabilities to be excluded from accessible parking under proposed scheme” I’m pleased to report that I have a piece of paper signed by Bill Shorten in my hot little… Read More ›

• Links for the Day – non-plastic toys, Rally for BFing rights in WA, and more

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-10 • ( 6 )

  Emma-in-oz has a listing of Australian toy stores selling wooden, non-toxic, fair trade, and/or Australian-made toys. Check it out. The issue of whether breastfeeding discrimination will be banned in Western Australia remains up in the air, but things don’t look… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Virtue #2, Temperance

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-10 • ( 6 )

  We’re continuing the post-deadly-sins Virtues series, with virtue number two: Temperance. Runner-up:

• Hutton’s Ontario Homebirth/Hospital Birth Study

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-10 • ( 5 )

  The latest homebirth study is out. The last was from British Columbia; this one’s from Ontario. “Outcomes Associated with Planned Home and Planned Hospital Births in Low-Risk Women Attended by Midwives in Ontario, Canada, 2003–2006: A Retrospective Cohort Study” Eileen… Read More ›

• WA Birthing Statistics: Interventions Down, Deaths Down

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-08 • ( 14 )

  Back in 2007, I wrote about Western Australian birthing statistics, based on the 2005 statistics that had just been released at the time. New data is out since then, for 2006 and 2007, in which the much-touted “epidemic” of old… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Your kids’ ‘secure’ online chats being sold to marketers

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-07 • ( 5 )

  Creepy privacy invasion of the day: Web-monitoring software reads kids’ private messages and sells data to advertisers “Parents who install a leading brand of software to monitor their kids’ online activities may be unwittingly allowing the company to read their… Read More ›

• Volunteers needed NOW for Down Under Feminists Carnival hosting!

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-07 • ( 17 )

  OK, I’m now desperately needing volunteers to host the Down Under Feminists Carnival from 5th November onwards! Please place a comment here if you can volunteer, including which month you can host (and whether you’re considering an optional theme, though… Read More ›

• Horrendous abuse of PWD in NSW State hospital

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-05 • ( 9 )

  Concord Hospital in Sydney has admitted that they did neglect an elderly, ill man, and the New South Wales government is once again feeling the heat over healthcare standards. Cut with WARNING, for horrific negligence-inflicted injury to a person with… Read More ›

• How things have changed

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-05 • ( 4 )

  I’ve been poking trhough William Heberden’s Commentaries on The History and Cure of Diseases (1802). Chapter 62, Menstrua, includes the following: “The pains, which several women experience during some part of the menstrual flux, are safely mitigated with opium; and… Read More ›