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Ellyse Perry plays a forward defensive shot

Friday Hoydens: Ellyse Perry and Suzie Bates

By Mary on 2012-01-13 • ( 2 )

There’s something about women cricketers… they just can’t confine themselves to one sport, dammit!

I don’t think that means what you think it means: Margaret Court edition

By tigtog on 2012-01-12 • ( 3 )

It is hard that they can voice their opinions but I am not allowed to voice my opinion. says Margaret Court, freely sharing her opinion on the pages of The Australian.

Who are you calling a feminist?

By Mindy on 2012-01-12 • ( 10 )

Who are you calling feminist?

A red dishcloth with a TARDIS pattern on it.

Whoydensday: A TARDIS in your own kitchen

By Chally on 2012-01-11 • ( 4 )

I knitted a TARDIS dishcloth, and you can do it, too! Adventures in time and space and washing up.

Conflict of interest, what conflict of interest?

By Mindy on 2012-01-08 • ( 4 )

Diet promoter suggests grading students based on their BMI.

Sunday Singalong: Violeta Parra

By hatbluemilk on 2012-01-08

OK, this one is Violeta Parra, an incredibly haunting Chilean folk singer who saw folk music as a “weapon against oppression”. Yeah which revolutionary didn’t? She and her children became the song-writers of the left-wing political movement of her country…. Read More ›

Mary’s helpful guide to soliciting research participation on the ‘net

By Mary on 2012-01-08 • ( 5 )

In my years on the ‘net, I’ve seen any number of people want to interview others or get them to take surveys for everything from a short high school or undergraduate paper through to graduate research projects and books. And they so seldom manage to meet basic ethical guidelines for making sure they aren’t wasting their participants’ time at best or endangering them at worst.

Quick hit: Not as easy as calories in =/= calories out

By Mindy on 2012-01-03 • ( 11 )

New study shows it is not as easy as calories in =/= calories out for people trying to maintain long term weight loss.

Libra’s new transphobic ad, and what you can do about it

By Chally on 2012-01-02 • ( 31 )

So here’s some unnecessary and unkind rubbish in a new ad from Libra, a company selling tampons, pads and liners in New Zealand and Australia. Poking fun at trans women is very much not how to get the tampon-buying public on your side.

a thumbnail graphic: text reads BLAST FROM THE PAST

BFTP: The myth of bra burning feminists

By tigtog on 2012-01-02 • ( 6 )

In 1968, some activists demonstrated against the Miss America beauty pageant and threw objects of “female oppression” – bras, high-heeled shoes, girdles, curlers – into a trash can. They were arguing about liberation – there was never any bra-burning – but the myth of the feminist as a bra-burner was created by the western media. There was also a crucial word missed in the description of the trashed bras.