Culture

The milieu through which we swim

Race, class, disability, sex; sex, disability, race, class; class, sex, disability, race; getting off the roundabout and meeting in the middle, dizzy as all get-out, but trying to find which way is up

By lauredhel on 2007-08-26 • ( 5 )

So. The big ones. Sex, race, disability, class. (Add your own: sexual orientation should be in there, heteronormativity and how that functions, trans issues, religion or lack thereof, lots more.) But I’m on my choice of Big Four today. And… Read More ›

Friday Hoyden: Dagmar Berne

By lauredhel on 2007-08-24 • ( 4 )

[image from National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame] As a teenager, Dagmar Berne, of Sydney, was sent by her widowed mother for a “good education” in a private school, Springfield Ladies’ College. The curriculum included such traditional “ladies’ accomplishments” as… Read More ›

“No one deserves to go to jail just for being a massive dickhead”

By tigtog on 2007-08-24

Comedian Dave Hughes’ latest press release, issued in response to Kyle Sandilands threatening to punch him in the throat in revenge for Hughsie calling him a dickhead on air, even if it means Sandilands going to jail, quoted in full… Read More ›

The colours of the rainbow…

By lauredhel on 2007-08-23 • ( 1 )

Enough of bad news and snark for this week. Have a smile on me. Or rather, on Raymond Crowe and Louis Armstrong. http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/774922/great_shadow_puppetry.swf If the embedded video isn’t working for you – go straight to the video at Metacafe.

Satan’s Bed

By lauredhel on 2007-08-18 • ( 14 )

As promised to la doctorita in this thread: the dangers of Secret Vice, or Self-Pollution. Published in Chicago by the “Vitalogy Association” in 1926 is the comprehensive home health encyclopaedia, “Vitalogy”, by E. H. Ruddock. The encyclopedia covers everything under… Read More ›