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• Quicklink: Gloria Steinem interview

  By tigtog on 2011-11-15

  Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken figure on behalf of women’s rights and the pro-choice movement for half a century.

• Sunday Singalong: Cyndi Lauper

  By tigtog on 2011-11-13 • ( 6 )

  

  We love Cyndi!

• Where to now with the #mencallmethings momentum?

  By tigtog on 2011-11-11 • ( 7 )

  

  The gendered cyber harassment campaigns are rank intimidation aimed at silencing us. We have to keep on talking about it so that they do not succeed.

• Carbon Price Legislation Passes Senate

  By tigtog on 2011-11-08 • ( 13 )

  

  Discuss.

  Official tigtog position on this legislation: it’s a nice start, should have happened ages ago, bring on the MRRT.

• Virtual Sculpture Tour: SBTS Bondi-Tamarama 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-11-07 • ( 6 )

  

  Two of this year’s sculptures have jumped out at me in the sea of Flickr thumbnails:

• One to bookmark: Slavering Beast Theory

  By tigtog on 2011-11-04 • ( 6 )

  

  There are ordinary guys and there are Slavering Beasts. And they are very, very easy to tell apart.

• Femmostroppo Reader November 4, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-11-04 • ( 9 )

  Experimenting with the much clunkier manual markup of my ‘Starred’ Google Reader items: Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Dialogue with my old neck injury

  By tigtog on 2011-11-04 • ( 6 )

  

  I thought I’d been careful enough over the weekend of my parents moving house, with minimising my lifting as far as I could etc, but it’s hard not to believe that the last few days of dysfunctional pain aren’t related.

• Boo to the New Google Reader

  By tigtog on 2011-11-02 • ( 32 )

  

  I’m sure that there will be a work-around, but for now I am not a happy bunny. If you know of a nice shiny way to replicate the share with note function of the old Google Reader, please let me know.

• Skewed Perceptions and Actual Facts

  By tigtog on 2011-11-01 • ( 2 )

  

  The egregiously ill-informed Charlotte Allen spouts yet another factoid blaming women for being too attractive to rapists, so all you young hussies should just stop dressing like sluts (yep);: Jill Filipovic at Feministe shreds Allen’s factoid to pieces.