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• Feminist science news!

  By Chally on 2011-12-20 • ( 2 )

  

  A teen performing groundbreaking cancer research and a new machine manufacturing affordable sanitary napkins in rural India, oh my!

• Sponsor me to support the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia

  By Chally on 2011-12-08 • ( 8 )

  

  I’m raising funds (here’s my sponsorship page) for the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, and tackling negative perceptions of femininity at the same time.

• The Humbling of a Pretty Girl

  By Chally on 2011-12-07 • ( 3 )

  

  To say that the outlets reporting on this think of it as a shock or a misfortune, feel really bad for Ms Scruggs, and are inappropriately sexing it up, misses the main point. There are loads of bigger stories to care about, on economies, wars, and disease. The point is that they are latching on to the most popular plot in the world: the humbling of the pretty girl.

• Homophobia and racism: the Australian media prove they can do two things at once

  By Chally on 2011-12-06 • ( 18 )

  

  There was a bit of a controversy on Sunday when The Daily Telegraph, which is apparently still passing for a newspaper, put up a story called “PM Julia Gillard and Senator Pansy Wong – a reluctant embrace of an emotive… Read More ›

• Click over to the 43rd Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By Chally on 2011-12-03

  

  Deborah of A Bee of a Certain Age has once more supplied us with the Down Under Feminists Carnival, with DUFC edition number 43. It is a rather lovely one, so please go on over and click some links to… Read More ›

• The 42nd Down Under Feminist Carnival is up!

  By Chally on 2011-11-07 • ( 1 )

  

  Pen at Pondering Postfeminism has the answer to life, the universe, and everything: DUFC #42. It’s good stuff! New Zealand’s own Deborah is hosting next time at A Bee of a Certain Age. See Deborah’s call for submissions for all… Read More ›

• What’s going on in the world?

  By Chally on 2011-10-18 • ( 17 )

  

  So, as we’ve probably all noticed, Australian news is kind of… Australia-centric? I’m wondering what news stories you’ve been encountering that really should be getting wider coverage. Here are some of mine: After years of military dictatorship, Burma is on… Read More ›

• The new ‘I Do’ ad for marriage equality

  By Chally on 2011-10-03 • ( 6 )

  

  Remember how I wrote a post about the experiences of filming an ad advocating marriage equality the other day? Well, it’s out now from the good people at the I Do campaign. It features Mim, her family, and me, if you can spot us!

• Hoydens About Town Hall

  By Chally on 2011-09-25 • ( 5 )

  

  Mim, her daughter, her mother, and I spent a very, very, very long afternoon filming a new ad advocating same-sex marriage with Australian Marriage Equality and GetUp!. Let me tell you all about it. The organisers had kept the specifics… Read More ›

• Girls Not Brides, a new campaign against child marriage

  By Chally on 2011-09-20 • ( 4 )

  

  From the press release: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr Gro Brundtland and Mary Robinson will draw global attention to the neglected issue of child marriage during the United Nations General Assembly week in New York, 19-23 September. […] Each year, an… Read More ›