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• Slam Poetry for Feminism

  By tigtog on 2011-02-21 • ( 2 )

  Via Clementine Ford on FB, two great slam poetry performances from a few years ago.

• What’s currently on high rotation in Madison, Wisconsin

  By tigtog on 2011-02-19 • ( 7 )

  In case you hadn’t heard, as well as the current uprisings around the Middle East against corrupt governments, right now there are thousands of people out demonstrating (in February, in Wisconsin!) against the Governor’s attack on unions – this is what they keep on playing:

• Femmostroppo Reader February 18, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-02-19 • ( 11 )

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

• If more Hollywood producers read Bob the Angry Flower

  By tigtog on 2011-02-17 • ( 17 )

  … they’d never greenlight tosh like Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (part one!)

• On the not Grokking of Internet Bingo Cards

  By tigtog on 2011-02-16 • ( 19 )

  Let me hand a depressingly large number of people an embarrassingly obvious cluestick: nobody gets to yell BINGO! on marking just one square.

• I haz a roquefort

  By tigtog on 2011-02-14 • ( 13 )

  and various other noms along these lines…Nom nom nom nom.

• Gratuitous Colin Firth blogging

  By tigtog on 2011-02-14 • ( 12 )

  Congratulations to the lovely and talented Mr Firth on his Best Actor BAFTA. Do go and see The King’s Speech if you haven’t already.

• Femmostroppo Reader February 13, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-02-13 • ( 6 )

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

• Happy Darwin Day

  By tigtog on 2011-02-12 • ( 4 )

  Charles Darwin was born 202 years ago today, and the International Darwin Day Foundation uses February 12th each year to celebrate Darwin, Science and Humanity. In November it will be 152 years since the publication of his paradigm-shattering work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

• Looking for an expert female speaker for your Australian event?

  By tigtog on 2011-02-11 • ( 14 )

  After nearly a year in concept, the No Chicks No Excuses website listing women speakers covering a wide variety of expertise has been launched, so that organisers no longer find it so terribly difficult to find women who know how to speak at a large event.