To everybody else who is missing their mother today, I feel for you.
relationships
All our relationships, not just partnerings
#AWW Book Review: Mateship with Birds
Mateship with Birds was reviewed for the 2014 Australian Women Writers Challenge.
I die of love
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
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
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!
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
Interesting timing.
BFTP: Who moved that apostrophe?
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?
Bye Mum
Mum was the first hoyden I ever knew.
A Short Post on Rape Prevention
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.
