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• Femmostroppo Reader November 17, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-11-17 • ( 5 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• Gratuitous Tap Dance blogging

  By tigtog on 2010-11-17 • ( 2 )

  Gregory Hines with Brenda Bufalino and the American Tap Dance Orchestra, 1989. Hines basically does a drum solo using just his feet.

• UK Guantanamo detainee settlements

  By tigtog on 2010-11-17

  This settlement allows the government to kick the formal inquiry about government complicity in maltreatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a judicial review, of which the most obvious benefit is that secret papers from the intelligence services will not be subpoenaed to be presented in an open court.

• Media meltdown over cash cow royal wedding

  By tigtog on 2010-11-17 • ( 8 )

  So how about a thread where we share some fun pop culture moments about weddings (or non-weddings) that avoid the Consumerist Fantasy Wedding tropes? I’ll start off with Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling:

• Remembering Bobbi Sykes 1944-2010

  By tigtog on 2010-11-16

  Dr Sykes (although she had not yet even begun her PhD) was the first woman I ever saw referred to as an activist on the TV news, when she was arrested in 1972 as the police overran the Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Parliament House in Canberra. There will be no picture of her here now that she is deceased.

• Recently in airport security

  By tigtog on 2010-11-15 • ( 2 )

  A Scottish comedian whose name I can’t remember now once said (paraphrasing) “keep a close eye on how your airports are treating you, because that’s how the authorities would like to treat you all the time”.

• Australian boys to get Gardasil vaccine

  By tigtog on 2010-11-15 • ( 4 )

  The Therapeutic Goods Administration last week approved Gardasil for use on males up to the age of 26.

• Femmostroppo Reader November 14, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-11-14 • ( 4 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• Finally

  By tigtog on 2010-11-14 • ( 4 )

  Burma’s military rulers have released the country’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest

• Quicklink: fighting over-sexualisation in the media

  By tigtog on 2010-11-12 • ( 2 )

  there is a correlation between overexposure to sexualized media images of women with depression, eating disorders and risky sexual behavior for girls and demeaning, sexist attitudes in boys