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• In good news…

  By tigtog on 2010-05-11 • ( 2 )

  #firstworldproblems

• Lost in Meatspace

  By tigtog on 2010-05-10 • ( 3 )

  I haz no home internets 😦 My broadband cable services are down entirely – internet (and thus our VOIP home phone), and, even worse for one particular reason, cable telly. Since our outside aerial fell down last year, we can’t… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 5, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-05-05

  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. Appearance politics: does this dress say I’m easy? – “You see a woman in stiletto heels… Read More ›

• Feed the Blogroll!

  By tigtog on 2010-05-04 • ( 14 )

  It’s a while since we updated our links – who have we missed in the new voices department? Has any of the links we already have on the list changed to a new domain? If you regularly comment here and… Read More ›

• Detached irony or cultural cringe?

  By tigtog on 2010-05-04 • ( 47 )

  I’m hugely ambivalent about the “ironic” burlesque revival – it’s still nearly always only female bodies on display, with the many fabulous male performers pushed to the showbiz margins of inner-city gay clubs and occasional hen’s nights while the burlesque girls venture regularly into mainstream suburban pubs, where they consciously drop the most confronting pieces from the run-sheet because they figure that the audience out there* won’t get/doesn’t want those anyway.

• Endangered Sunday: Golden Lion Tamarin

  By tigtog on 2010-05-02 • ( 2 )

  The Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia, Portuguese: Mico-leão Dourado) also known as Golden Marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Cebidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the Golden Lion Tamarin is an endangered species and among the rarest animals in the world, with an estimated wild population of “no more than 1,000 individuals” and a captive population maintained at approximately 490 individuals.

• Femmostroppo Reader – May 1, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-05-02 • ( 3 )

  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. So Sexy Too Soon – “Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne explore the role of gendered and… Read More ›

• Blogging Against Disablism Day

  By tigtog on 2010-05-01 • ( 2 )

  It’s today! Diary of A Goldfish is listing BADD 2010 posts as they are submittted there. There are some categories set up to spark ideas if you want to write your own BADD post. Previous BADD posts from HaT: 2009… Read More ›

• #nocleanfeed – Aust Govt delays introducing net filter legislation

  By tigtog on 2010-04-29 • ( 9 )

  From the Oz A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday the legislation would not be introduced next month’s or the June sittings of parliament. With parliament not sitting again until the last week of August, the laws are… Read More ›

• Those who do not know their history etc etc

  By tigtog on 2010-04-28 • ( 13 )

  – how the Tea Party movement is either deliberately misusing or seriously misunderstanding history, why that allows nonsense to spread unchecked, and why the trend of de-emphasising of history should be of concern to all sides of politics.