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• A Prize of One’s Own

  By tigtog on 2011-05-06

  A group of Australian women writers and publishers are working to set up an equivalent of the Orange prize in their country, to combat what they describe as “the systemic exclusion of women writers over several decades” from the country’s major literary awards.

• Advice please: dealing with NSW Dept of Education re a student with disabilities

  By tigtog on 2011-05-05 • ( 9 )

  How the fuck can I help this rather lovely young person get the best out of hir education when the existing systems seem to be letting hir down?

• Femmostroppo Reader May 5, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-05-05 • ( 2 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Oh Noes, we missed Star Wars Day

  By tigtog on 2011-05-05

  Because who doesn’t love a truly horrible pun?

• Systemic Imbalance and Marginalised Voices: Feminism FOR REAL

  By tigtog on 2011-05-04 • ( 22 )

  This anthology was launched in March, but in a fine example of its major theme regarding whose voices get sidelined in the feminism movement, most of the femosphere appears to not have heard of it until it was centred in a blogstorm this week.

• WTF, Harper Collins? Limited Checkouts on eBooks for Libraries?

  By tigtog on 2011-05-04 • ( 5 )

  Tell HarperCollins: Limited Checkouts on eBooks is Wrong for Libraries

• Worried parent

  By tigtog on 2011-05-03 • ( 8 )

  Just had to correct a line in Sprog the Younger’s English essay…

• Blogging Against Disablism Day 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-05-02

  A fantastic collection of posts has already been published and collated for BADD 2011 over at Diary Of A Goldfish, and there will definitely be more to come.

  It’s not too late to write one yourself, if you were thinking of it and haven’t managed it yet. May 1st is a suggestion, everybody understands about clashing priorities and perhaps your spoons allocation.

• RIP Hazel Dickens

  By tigtog on 2011-05-02 • ( 5 )

  People with strength and conviction are a rare breed and the battles they fight benefit us all.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By tigtog on 2011-05-01 • ( 13 )

  Today’s otter is coming at you from The Independent, which describes how the competing interests of otters and anglers are being sorted out in the UK over recent years.

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.