Slave2tehtink pointed me to this online exhibition, Beauty, Virtue & Vice, looking at American 19th-century prints of women. The exhibition talks about notions of ideal beauty and ideal womanhood in white wealthy American society, and at some threats to these… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Fudging funding for the NT Indigenous housing program
Two years ago, a $672 million Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program (SIHIP) was announced for the Northern
Territory. It was supposed to involve the building of 750 homes, 230 rebuilds and 2500 refurbishments by 2013. As yet, not one home has been built. Let’s see what’s going on, shall we?
And now for your regular slug of GOP WTF: how they hell do they sleep at night?
Apparently, POTUS telling kids to work hard in school is part of Obama’s ‘socialist agenda’ – I shit you not.
Quickhit: Kathryn Joyce on Shotgun Adoptions
You may remember Kathryn Joyce as the author of a powerful piece on the Quiverfull religious movement – in this article she looks at the collusion between Crisis Pregnancy Centres and adoption services, and how they coerce mothers into relinquishing… Read More ›
Virtual traveling: more faves
A mosaic of the latest photos I have “favourited” in Flickr – I seem to have been in a largely monochromatic mood lately.
One minister leaves, another returns
Should a sexual infidelity, no matter how salacious, be something that makes a politician resign? Do we really care who John Della Bosca is bonking?
In far happier news, Victoria’s Tim Holding found after spending two nights in sub-zero conditions.
Are these things really the same?
Image from Adelaide Now Daisy doll from Positive Images Adelaide Now is running a story on the return of Golliwogs. A store in Adelaide is selling them, saying that banning them in the first place was an act of… Read More ›
Dawn Fraser demonstrates crone power
Startled in the middle of the night by intruders, 72 year old former Olympian Dawn Fraser used her swimmer’s strength backed up by strategic deployment of her titanium knee to fight off one teenager who had grabbed her around the throat.
Not a fan of violence, but definitely a fan of self-defence, I say yay for Dawn.
Ten Steps to a Perfect Fanstorm
1. Gender-evpsych/cogsci researcher and game show contestant Ogi Ogas decides to prove that men’s and women’s desire is hardwired differently, using his Boston Uni credentials to gather material for a book which he’s going to call Rule 34: What Netporn… Read More ›
If I’d had my camera with me I would have taken a picture rather like this
Except the dog was four times this size, the swans were black and the cygnets were still in their eggs in a nest. In our local big park.
Hoyden About Town 