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Missing Mum on Mothers’ Day

By tigtog on 2014-05-11 • ( 11 )

To everybody else who is missing their mother today, I feel for you.

#AWW Book Review: Mateship with Birds

By Mindy on 2014-03-12 • ( 1 )

Mateship with Birds was reviewed for the 2014 Australian Women Writers Challenge.

I wish so much that I had been able to buy Miriam Elia’s book, We Go to the Art Gallery before it was stomped on by Penguin books. I do love a bit of mothering and nihilism in art galleries,… Read More ›

DUFC #69

By Mindy on 2014-02-05 • ( 5 )

Welcome to the 69th Down Under Feminists Carnival. This month read some of the best posts from January 2014.

Feminism needs more practice, less perfect

By hatbluemilk on 2014-01-31 • ( 53 )

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 ›

Can’t blog: singing!

By tigtog on 2013-07-01 • ( 22 )

Earlier this year I started going to a weekly singing group, encouraged by mr tog because it was happening where he does his band practice, and he was sure that getting back into singing regularly again would make me happier. He was right …

Kevin thread

By tigtog on 2013-05-21 • ( 9 )

Interesting timing.

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BFTP: Who moved that apostrophe?

By tigtog on 2013-05-15 • ( 2 )

How did a day that grew from West Virginian Mothers’ Work Days from 1858 onwards (where mothers worked together to improve their community), and Mothers’ Friendship Days from 1865 (to promote harmony between former opponents in the Civil War), become what we celebrate now as Mother’s Day?

See the difference that apostrophe position makes?

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Bye Mum

By tigtog on 2013-04-25 • ( 22 )

Mum was the first hoyden I ever knew.

A man with dark ginger hair and whiskers is holding a sign which says BY DEFINITION YOU CAN'T ASK FOR RAPE

A Short Post on Rape Prevention

By Anna on 2013-03-25 • ( 58 )

When people scoff at the message that we need to teach people not to rape they make the assumption that the lesson goes: “Rape is bad. Don’t do it.” That is not what the lesson looks like. The lesson, once it is adopted, will be that every single person out there, regardless of any defining personal characteristics, is a human being of value, and with a right to make their own decisions about what bodily contact to have with others.