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• Why Feminists Need To Be Concerned About Accessible Parking Restrictions

  By lauredhel on 2009-06-03 • ( 8 )

  Join our Facebook group – “Against the Proposed Narrowing of Accessible Parking Permit Eligibility“! ~~~ As regular readers know, the Australian Government is looking to reduce the number of disabled parking permits available to the community, by refusing access to… Read More ›

• Open Letter to Disability Orgs re Proposed Accessible Parking Rules – Please Co-Sign

  By lauredhel on 2009-06-02 • ( 7 )

  Join our Facebook group – “Against the Proposed Narrowing of Accessible Parking Permit Eligibility“! ~~~ Further to Beppie’s form letter for you to send to government, Wildly Parenthetical and I have been collaborating on a letter to send to community… Read More ›

• 13th DUFC nearing deadline, and nominate your fave Ozfem blogger at Cosmo!

  By lauredhel on 2009-06-01

  Yikes, my usual alarm malfunctioned! (Or I dismissed it with a misclick.) It’s time to submit posts for the Lucky Thirteenth Down Under Feminists Carnival – and you’ve only got a day till deadline, so get to it now. Before… Read More ›

• What cheeses me off – “parking permit abuse”

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-31 • ( 10 )

  I bet this post is not what you think it’s going to be. What cheeses me off is Temporarily Able-Bodied (TAB) folk leaping to attribute accessible parking problems to “permit abuse”. (This can be broadened to other disability accommodations, also.)… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-30 • ( 12 )

  See staff at SeaWorld San Diego hand rearing an orphan sea otter pup – feeding, grooming, and having a swim. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in… Read More ›

• CALL TO ACTIVISM – Many people with disabilities to be excluded from accessible parking under proposed scheme

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-30 • ( 27 )

  Join our Facebook group – “Against the Proposed Narrowing of Accessible Parking Permit Eligibility“! ~~~ UPDATE 1 June 2009: Please see this new post about the current State and Territory eligibility criteria for accessible parking permits: “Harmonisation” of disabled parking… Read More ›

• 3 posts on butch/femme & disability – read ’em.

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-29 • ( 1 )

  First, bfp at Flip Flopping Joy: “what is butch?” but then i see sites specifically for butches–and all i see are women who clearly are spending hours and hours and tons of money getting dressed up–with plucked eyebrows even! –and… Read More ›

• Infant Formula Product Placement in Chemistry Matric Exam

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-28 • ( 5 )

  School and university exam writers often invent scenarios. They play with made-up names for people, they dream up companies, they have fun devising original scenarios and puns to spice up their questions. But what happens when they get bored doing… Read More ›

• Conroy backing down on internet censorship?

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-27 • ( 5 )

  Well, the proposed Australian internet filtering plans have shifted, and changed, and been fiddled with, and shifted again. We went from an across-the-board opt-out censorship system (the election promise), to some sort of “clean feed” (a meaningless term), to mandatory… Read More ›

• Women in Science Fiction reading club – come join in

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-26 • ( 8 )

  Sajbrfem (of Fifty Two Acts fame) is starting a Women in Science Fiction reading club. We’re starting with The Female Man (Joanna Russ), so grab yourself a copy, subscribe to sajbrfem’s dreamwidth journal, and start reading.