I wrote about the Australia import restrictions on RU486 back in December, when this article by Mary Lander appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia: “The fight for a life-saving drug: a personal perspective”. RU486 is a progesterone antagonist –… Read More ›
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The Inaugural Down Under Feminists Carnival
Hoyden About Town is proud to present the first edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival! I hope you enjoy this spectacular buffet of feminist writing. The Down Under Feminists Carnival is open to feminist submissions from any blog based… Read More ›
Quick Hit: medical misinformation in TV-drama leads to bullying at school
Boy taunted after Seven’s Down syndrome gaffe Channel Seven is facing legal action and an advertising boycott after popular show All Saints implied that Down syndrome is caused by incest. Down syndrome groups say that at least one child has… Read More ›
Journalwatch: Ethics chairs unaware of research sexism; breast cancer and HRT use fall in concert
In today’s Hoyden Journalwatch: Adelaide bioethics researchers found that human research ethics committee chairs in Australia were unaware of issues of sexism in scientific research. The research, published in today’s Medical Journal of Australia[1], consisted of interviews with 25 chairs… Read More ›
Graeme Reeves “Butcher of Bega” update
[image source] As the three-month-old 12-detective Strike Force Tarella continues to investigate and accumulate evidence on a multitude of cases, retired Federal Court judge Deirdre O’Connor has completed a review into the employment of abusive doctor Graeme Reeves. Reeves is… Read More ›
Visceral image-jolt
I’m pretty sure anyone who has ever worked at an emergency department knows what jolted me about this image. It took me quite a while to figure out what the advertisers were actually getting at. I wonder if anyone in… Read More ›
I can’t believe it’s not International No-Diet Day
And we missed it! Anyway, Fillyjonk and Kate have posted lots of good stuff about HAES and Size Acceptance. Everyday is No-Diet Day in my house, although yesterday was actually no-retain-food-in-belly day, as I succumbed to the chundering bug that… Read More ›
Blogging Against Disablism: Mental Illness, Stigmatisation, Coming Out
This is going to be short because if I try and make it a grand narrative I might chicken out of coming out. I am disabled. My disability is invisible. I have a mental illness. I have a disorder of… Read More ›
Ask Auntie Hoyden
Don’t you just love How-people-found-us search term posts? As usual, I’ve ignored all the searches about rape, paedophilia, and pictures of fat naked women, which doesn’t leave a lot. Here are a few things people have googled this week to… Read More ›
Various topics I’d like to blog on if I had more time
So I’ll link you to other ozbloggers who’ve done it already! Edited to add: if there’s something you were intending to blog but haven’t got around to, or wish you had blogged but somebody else said it superbly first so… Read More ›
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