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• 12 Livejournal ads you might prefer not to have seen

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-07 • ( 5 )

  So. LJ ads. Spurred on by snugglebitch’s spotting of this anti-gay marriage ad on livejournal (via trouble), 1. I logged out of LJ, opened up Safari (no AdBlock), and poked around. I have a play with surfing, then interest searches…. Read More ›

• Disability and masturbation – how can sisters do it for themselves?

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-07 • ( 11 )

  Reading this review of “Getting Off” by Jamye Waxman at Menstrual Poetry, I started to wonder: who’s assessing sex toys from an accessibility point of view? Where are the easy-grip variety-of-angles assistive devices for women with a range of different… Read More ›

• Housekeeping: Dreamwidth feed

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-05

  For those who are looking to read Hoyden About Town on their Dreamwidth reading page, there’s a syndicated feed here: hoyden-about-town-feed.dreamwidth.org I’m lauredhel.dreamwidth.org, for my imaginary friends looking for my personal journal. Register and confirm your OpenID (LJ, blogspot, wordpress,… Read More ›

• A new analogy! Breastfeeding = bloodied corpses.

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-05 • ( 14 )

  Those opposing new legislation in the wind to protect the rights of mothers and children to breastfeed in public are getting increasingly desperate. I’ve read an awful lot of comment threads about public breastfeeding (Bingo card here), so to come… Read More ›

• Slash and Teh Magick Testicles of Perspicacity

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-05 • ( 42 )

  Via glandujakiss and sqbr. You don’t even have to know anything about slash to get a few giggles and more than a few eyerolls out of this interview with evolutionary psychologist Don Symons, author of Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution… Read More ›

• “Mens sana in corpora sano”

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-04 • ( 24 )

  I’m reading “Enforcing Normalcy”, by Lennard J Davis. The second chapter, “Constructing Normalcy”, talks about the development of the concept of “normal” in European/American culture, mostly from the seventeenth century onwards. On page 37-38, he talks about early twentieth century… Read More ›

• First Birthday Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-03 • ( 2 )

  The twelfth and Bumper Birthday Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at Chally’s place, Zero At The Bone. Many thanks to Chally who I know has put plenty of work into it. And yes, there is cake…. Read More ›

• PSA: The CDC on swine flu and breastfeeding

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-03 • ( 3 )

  A lot of people think that breastfeeding is a tenuous, fragile, and even dangerous thing. Oh, they might concede that breastfeeding is a fine thing to do if it’s easy, and the mother is perfectly healthy, and the baby is… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-02 • ( 5 )

  Julie Zickefoose was thrilled to spot giant Amazon otters in the wild in Guyana. These otters only survive in numbers – and not large numbers, at around 5000 individuals – in Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname, in a fragile rainforest… Read More ›

• Can I have a seat? Blogging Against Disablism Day, 2009

  By lauredhel on 2009-05-01 • ( 27 )

  Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009 Strategically placed seating costs next to nothing for a business to implement. It requires no building modification. And it can make a huge difference to accessibility for some people with disabilities. Bouquets and Brickbats A… Read More ›