So said Tammy Faye Messner (once Tammy Faye Bakker) once when asked her opinion on homosexuals and whether they could be part of the Christian family. She died yesterday of cancer aged 65. I’m not a fan of televangelists as… Read More ›
Life
Friday fun: A day at home
The lad’s not quite 100% today, and we’ve kicked back at home with some movies, popcorn, and a box of drawing tools. He decided to draw a pageful of “monsters”. And here it is. Caption by the lad: “A scary… Read More ›
World inside-out
This is a really neat map with continents/oceans reversed. [Via Vex Appeal.] I’ve been trying to work out why this map has captivated me so much. For a start, I love maps. Since I can remember, I can pore over… Read More ›
You’re not worth it.
As Tigtog discussed while I had this post desultorily in draft (it’s school holidays here!), the Daily Telegraph has posted a followup on CityRail’s complete lack of any workable emergency evacuation plans for people who can’t walk: CityRail plan to… Read More ›
Disabled in a disaster? Just wait until we’ve helped all the real people, all right?
Lauredhel had a post a few days ago noting the plight of a quadriplegic man abandoned while the ablebodied passengers were evacuated during the train breakdown on the Sydney Harbour Bridge recently and told he would be evacuated “in two… Read More ›
So, is it OK?
crossposted at Feministe Jessica, Amanda, Twisty and Violet Socks (and Melissa too!)have all written about this article: Is it OK to Demand Anal Sex?. The picture accompanying the article is odiously twee and threatening simultaneously, and as virtually every respondent… Read More ›
What do disabled people, fat people, and indigenous languages have in common? They’re not disposable.
Read ‘Ems for today: Sunday Telegraph: Quadriplegic left on train Mark McCauley, a man with quadriplegia, was abandoned on a New South Wales CityRail train for four hours when the train lost power. The ambulatory passengers were all evacuated one… Read More ›
“Perhaps the simplest way to begin is to plunge a knife into the male urethra”
“Anatomy is one of the key sites for the production and maintenance of sex and gender as embodied dualities, as these excerpts imply. It offers an institutionalized discourse rife with vivid representations which claim the body for medicine and then… Read More ›
Where the wild political parodies are
My ISP hates me and I can’t hardly browse anything at the moment. Luckily I have siblings with computers who also have kids whose cuteness is second only to mine own sprogs’ cuteness who can be blogged about. Image credit:… Read More ›
Whatever game that’s in aid of, you can play it on your own
Scene: Chez togmob, master bedroom, early hours. The senior togmobbers are engaged in lustful pursuits, when mr tog reaches playfully into the bedside drawer, and flourishingly extracts A SHOEHORN. tigtog: Eep! mr tog: oh.. er.. um.. not what I meant… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 