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• Feminism and birth in Australia: moving from stat-wrangling towards a reproductive choice perspective

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-11 • ( 22 )

  I’ve been looking for the most recent official stats on homebirth and hospital birth mortality in Australia. I can’t find 2007 or 2008 figures, but there are 2006 figures available. Australia’s mothers and babies 2006 The Australian Institute of Health… Read More ›

• Lazyweb Book request: Disability activism

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-11 • ( 22 )

  Lazyweb, do my homework for me! Many of us can rattle off a list of feminist books that influenced our thinking, a list to answer the recurring feminism-101 question about reading lists. I haven’t a clue about radical disability activism… Read More ›

• Quickhit: “The wages of atheism”.

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-10 • ( 24 )

  By In A Strange Land: When our daughters chose to opt out of the god-botherers preaching about sky fairies (Miss Ten’s words, not mine) at school, just before Easter, they were sent to pick up litter in the school grounds… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Sleepy Kittehs, and Delurking Day

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-09 • ( 8 )

  Work? I iz on top of it And this runner-up, I relate to: CLEANING: it’s harder than it looks

• More outrage over sex ed for youngsters: The Hormone Factory

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-08 • ( 20 )

  Ostrich parents in Queensland are said to be up in arms today about a sex education website aimed at Grade 7 students. The site, thehormonefactory.com (warning:website sound), contains a selection of pubertal anatomy and physiology, basic sex information, talk about… Read More ›

• The Eleventh Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at Why I’m Bitter!

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-06 • ( 2 )

  The Eleventh Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at Why I’m Bitter’s Weblog. Yay! If you’re a regular reader, or especially if you’re featured in the carnival, please place a link to it and spread the word. You’re welcome to… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Needs More Glitter

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-05 • ( 6 )

  Girls Red Comics – And They’re Pissed! has a new post up! Check out Needs More Glitter, by Karen Healey. She is responding to this article, “Marvel Debuts Female Apparel and Cosmetics“. Karen writes: Anyway, I’m back, lured by the… Read More ›

• Saturday Night Caption Contest

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-05 • ( 6 )

  Whatcha got? Caption this photo here.

• Otterday! And open thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-04 • ( 25 )

  Nyac, survivor of the Exxon Valdez oil spill and co-star of the Otters Holding Hands video, died late last year. She developed chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, a cancer not previously known in sea otters, but associated with petroleum contact in other… Read More ›

• Quiz: Representations of Disabled Bodies in Logos

  By lauredhel on 2009-04-03 • ( 32 )

  Most disability logos just consist of the usual stick-figure-in-the-wheelchair logo, or a derivation thereof. After spotting this logo for No Barriers No Borders, I went looking for others. And I got to thinking about the representations of disabled bodies in… Read More ›