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Doctor Who Xmas Special Trailer! Narnia … in … spaaaaace…
The Doctor Who Xmas special trailer is now out! Written by Steven Moffat, the episode is titled The Doctor, The Widow, and The Wardrobe. Blurb, video, and transcript below a cut, so that those who are extremely spoiler-averse can avoid… Read More ›
Dear Kindle Cloud Reader
Please to be fixing footnotes. It is utterly unacceptable to attempt reading Pratchett without them.
Quickhit: Smart Bitches, Crippy Books?
Prompted by a request from a PWD reader, SB Sarah from romance book review site Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is asking for recommendations for romance novels featuring heroines with disabilities and/or chronic conditions.
Can you help? Would you like some recs?
Sunday Singalong: Cyndi Lauper
We love Cyndi!
Madison Young on that whole breastfeeding controversy
Image credit. Remember this? A breastfeeding portrait of pornographer and feminist performance artist, Madison Young that led another pornographer to accuse her of exploiting and sexualising her baby? Well, Tracy Clark-Flory has just interviewed Madison Young over at Salon on… Read More ›
Gender baby
Image description: a photograph of some stenciled graffiti art on a rendered brick wall. It shows two identical baby faces side by side…
Virtual Sculpture Tour: SBTS Bondi-Tamarama 2011
Two of this year’s sculptures have jumped out at me in the sea of Flickr thumbnails:
Scary good
In case you don’t follow me on twitter (why ever not?) and haven’t already seen me tweet this link from reddit… Image from reddit My 5yo daughter wanted to be a Princess Darth Vader for Halloween. So proud. submitted 1… Read More ›
Flemington Avoidance Thread
Pull up a comfy chair and a cup of tea and talk about something (anything) else!