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• Ukraine’s Got Talent winner

  By tigtog on 2010-01-19 • ( 6 )

  Sometimes the weird things people forward around in email truly are extraordinary. This video shows the winner of “Ukraine’s Got Talent”, Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected… Read More ›

• Complacency, Indifference and Intent (or lack thereof)

  By tigtog on 2010-01-19 • ( 14 )

  various nay-sayers are arguing that the upswing in attacks on Indian students can’t have anything to do with structural racism in Australia, because none of the student visa laws that push overseas students into exploitative employment situations and allow deceptive “colleges” to fleece them while isolating them from Australian-born student bodies were intended to have a racialised separatist effect

• Today I haz been mostly…

  By tigtog on 2010-01-18 • ( 5 )

  … playing typography nerd.

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 17, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-18

  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. Eighth Carnival of Feminist Parenting Tourism and the Objectification of the Native – “We often talk… Read More ›

• Shirky’s “Rant About Women”

  By tigtog on 2010-01-17 • ( 16 )

  Shirky thinks this disparity is a problem, and that it’s a problem because well qualified women are missing out on opportunities because they are not even attempting to bluff their way into them, but his solution to the culture of dissembling successfully that works for some men is not the merest hint of a suggestions that decision-makers should stop rewarding flagrant bullshit artistry by falling for it (or at least not calling it out), just that women should do more of the arrogant dissembling if they want to succeed.

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 15, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-16

  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. How Dare You Question Me – “I’m continually amazed that anyone can consider Pat Robertson a… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Haiti donation links

  By tigtog on 2010-01-15 • ( 6 )

  mr tog and I will be donating money to these two orgs today: * Médecins Sans Frontières Australia * Australian Red Cross Haiti Appeal Obviously, there are many other relief orgs doing good work in Haiti in the wake of… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – January 13, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-01-14 • ( 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. my five fav tools to dialogue about justice – “below are tools that i use in… Read More ›

• Science! fluffy marsupials in treetops! with Crittercams!

  By tigtog on 2010-01-13 • ( 2 )

  The elusive tree kangaroos of Papua New Guinea are revealing more about themselves to scientists thanks to a new videocam technology project.

• FeminismTM Fail?

  By tigtog on 2010-01-13

  No, not that kind of feminism. Not the theory of women’s equality or the history of suffrage or the First Wave or the Third Wave or 18 million tiny cracks in the glass ceiling.

  I’m talking about Feminism^TM, as in the largest feminist advocacy organizations in the country raising millions of dollars to fight on behalf of women.