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• Read-ems: Fat Acceptance, Health, Social Inclusion and Self Acceptance

  By tigtog on 2010-09-15 • ( 2 )

  The best thing in Spilt’s post? Calling out the self-shit-talking that some indulge in, about the horrible flaws in their own mildly flabby body in the presence of a much fatter person, for what it is – passive-agressive fat-shaming insults that are downright rude.

• Quote for the Day: on narratives

  By tigtog on 2010-09-15 • ( 2 )

  A narrative is determined as much by what is omitted as by what is included.

• Wednesday Wow: Sea fort

  By tigtog on 2010-09-15 • ( 9 )

  …took me to one of those old posts, and I thought “hey, I miss this idea”, because I usually ended up finding out something interesting as I looked into the backstory behind various intriguing photos.

• Quote of the Day: institutions vs amateur critics

  By tigtog on 2010-09-14

  What the internet means for the old-fashioned print critic is the end of institutional authority. That so many of these critics mistake institutional authority for critical authority says everything you need to know.

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 14, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-09-14 • ( 4 )

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

• Gillard ministry reshuffle and readjustments

  By tigtog on 2010-09-14 • ( 2 )

  It certainly looks like something else was on their mind beyond just filling portfolios according to factional balances and policy goals, given yesterday’s gaffes regarding the omission of the Ministries for the Status of Women and Indigenous Health.

• Newspoll: new election would mean another hung parliament

  By tigtog on 2010-09-14 • ( 4 )

  So is it at all possible that all the frenzied yammering from the “we wuz robbed” CLN diehards about the desperate need for a new election ASAP might just STFU for a while now?

• Owl! in a hat!

  By tigtog on 2010-09-13 • ( 41 )

  This cheered me up. I have no idea of the backstory,

• Retention of rural healthworkers needs more than increased funds

  By tigtog on 2010-09-13

  Fascinating post from Croakey: Globally, about one half of the population lives in rural areas, but less than 38 per cent of the nurses and less than 25 per cent of the physicians work there. The WHO has just released some global recommendations…

• One Line: responses to the Gillard minority government

  By tigtog on 2010-09-12 • ( 11 )

  Single sentences that struck me forcefully over the last few days –
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