This is about putting the interests of the thousands of Australians, many elderly and of limited means, second to the banks and retail funds.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
More of this, please
How great is it to see a cover like this on a street rag?
DUFC #69
Welcome to the 69th Down Under Feminists Carnival. This month read some of the best posts from January 2014.
Today in Anti-Harassment: moving forward with #CoCPledge
#CoCPledge took off on Twitter after Ashe Dryden posted A year+ in: codes of conduct at tech confs on her blog and then initiated the discussion with this tweet: “I will not attend or speak at conferences or other events that do not have a code of conduct. #CoCPledge”
Feminism needs more practice, less perfect
Feminism is messy and difficult, and it should be. We’re talking about changing incredibly powerful institutions and also, incredibly intimate parts of our lives. That work won’t ever be easy. And the introspection involved particularly for doing feminist work on… Read More ›
Today in Tangential Learning: the smell of chloroform
As part of following PZ Myer’s account of a campaign against him on campus from the editor(s) of a right-wing student newspaper, I have learnt what chloroform smells like, and it smells like something present in every office and classroom and most private homes.
Then I searched online for a bit more information about chloroform…
Like a House on Fire #AWW2014
Review of Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy.
Vale Pete Seeger 1919-2014
Some of the first songs I learnt to sing beyond nursery songs & school singalongs were Pete Seeger songs. I have no doubt that my politics today have largely grown from learning and loving these protest songs from an early age.
Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014
My reading list for the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014.
Reimagining the C.W.A.
Guest Post by Alex Skud Bayley
…mutual support, community service, skill-building, learning about issues facing women both locally and overseas, and advocacy on behalf of women. So far so good! So why is it that, on the whole, the Country Women’s Association is so ossified?
Hoyden About Town 