Anybody? It looks very interesting, but I’m hesitant to sign up for yet another thing without knowing how other people are finding it usability-wise etc.
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
A Prize of One’s Own
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.
Quick Hit: Today in ‘equality’
Her refusal to cheer for him in basketball games led to her being thrown off the team, and she then sought to sue her school (specifically for infringing her freedom of speech).
Advice please: dealing with NSW Dept of Education re a student with disabilities
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?
Oh Noes, we missed Star Wars Day
Because who doesn’t love a truly horrible pun?
Systemic Imbalance and Marginalised Voices: Feminism FOR REAL
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?
Tell HarperCollins: Limited Checkouts on eBooks is Wrong for Libraries
Worried parent
Just had to correct a line in Sprog the Younger’s English essay…
RIP Hazel Dickens
People with strength and conviction are a rare breed and the battles they fight benefit us all.
The Conversation: Guest Post by Laughingrat
Joanna Russ died today; I didn’t know her.
This is how the conversation goes: a professor, a pal or two, mention a book by Joanna Russ called How to Suppress Women’s Writing. I see it referenced online sometimes; I find an image, occasionally, of the cover, with the phrases “She didn’t write it,” “She wrote it, but she had help,” etc., naming and de-normalizing bad ideas that are always sneaking into my subconscious.
Hoyden About Town 