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• Finding the gaps in Australian women’s health services

  By tigtog on 2011-05-31

  Australia’s largest network of organisations advocating for women’s equality is marking the International Day of Action for Women’s Health on 28 May 2011 with the launch of a survey to identify gaps in Australian women’s health services.

• @mfarnsworth on Blanchett

  By tigtog on 2011-05-30 • ( 6 )

  

  Malcolm Farnsworth on the Murdoch Media’s confected outrage du jour: actress Cate Blanchett has political opinions, and dares to share them in public.

• Femmostroppo Reader May 30, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-05-30 • ( 7 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion especially welcomed!

• Spoonbill Spat

  By tigtog on 2011-05-29

  

  A “pictmotion” slideshow of some shots I took on yesterday’s walk – one peacefully wading spoonbill was interrupted by the arrival of another, and then the fight was on!

• Anti-racist awareness and denial within progressive spaces

  By tigtog on 2011-05-26 • ( 21 )

  

  Two very important posts on anti-oppression conversations that so often implode and intersectional goals that end up not being reached. I’m bookmarking these.

• Latest US Tornadoes

  By tigtog on 2011-05-25 • ( 3 )

  Watching the latest news of the tornado fatalities in Missouri, I think I’m starting to get a better understanding of why the most fatalistic/eschatological forms of conservative evangelical Christianity have such a hold on so many folks in Tornado Alley…. Read More ›

• Why the 9 months delay?

  By tigtog on 2011-05-24

  

  I’ve also been waiting for one single news story on the matter to point out that it’s not just the soldiers at risk, it’s also the sexual partners of every single one of those soldiers over the last 9 months, some of whom may end up infected when that could so easily have been avoided by timely notification. So far I’ve seen nothing even mentioning the possibility.

• Femmostroppo Reader May 23, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-05-23 • ( 8 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Self-promotion is always welcome!

• Vale Bob Gould, Bookseller Extraordinaire

  By tigtog on 2011-05-23 • ( 6 )

  If you imagine the stereotypical, small, dusty secondhand bookshop, enlarge it substantially and then imbue this cavern with many of the bigger-on-the-inside properties of the TARDIS as if designed by Escher you might start to get a feel for how those shops worked.

• The Gingrichburg Address

  By tigtog on 2011-05-22 • ( 5 )

  

  Stephen Colbert gets John Lithgow to recite that baffling wafflefest Press Release of Doom from Newt Gingrich’s presidential spokesman, Rick Tyler.