Some artwork from Amanda Marcotte’s book “It’s A Jungle Out There”, published by Seal Press, is now online at Dear White Feminists. I wrote about Seal Press a short while ago, here, and y’all know about the current AM/appropriation conversation… Read More ›
Politics
Arizona legislature seeks to ban “race-based” clubs from campuses
Brooklynite’s new blog is live (Congratulations!). Check it out at studentactivism.net. The entry that leapt out at me: “Arizona Law Would Ban “Race-Based” Clubs” A bill passed by a committee of the Arizona state legislature would prohibit groups “based in… Read More ›
Godbags smacked down: Advertising Standards Bureau
You might remember a discussion on the Cast Iron Balcony about the panty-sniffing godbag scum who recently did a large letter-drop of graphic material advocating forced pregnancy as policy. The anti-abortion culprits call themselves the “Tell The Truth” coalition. Their… Read More ›
Pennsylvania Primary: what are the good reasons and what are the bad reasons to vote for either Dem candidate?
Just a nod to the fact that a majority of my readers are US voters, some of them are in Pennsylvania, and the polls have not yet closed. It’s still the 22nd over there. It’s a no-brainer that with all… Read More ›
From Little Things, Big Things Grow: the GetUp Mob
Making pop songs from political speeches seems to be becoming a trend. The GetUp Mob has set the Apology to music. The song originates in Paul Kelly’s “From Little Things, Big Things Grow”, written in the 80s about the 1966… Read More ›
The FLDS polygamy and statutory rape farm
Haven’t blogged anything about this, so this is just a quick hit. There’s lots of blogging about this around. AP: Texas polygamist sect is accused of indoctrinating girls SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Girls in the west Texas polygamous sect… Read More ›
7 decades of McNasty McCain
I hadn’t realised until I read this article in the Washington Post that Senator McCain was given the McNasty nickname due to his aggressiveness as a schoolboy. The article details how his temper has manifested on many occasions since his… Read More ›
Roundup: 2020 summit
There hasn’t been as much coverage of the summit around the blogs as I expected (not yet anyway). LP has had plenty of threads, of which I think the standout is this one. TimT suggests that the photo of Rudd… Read More ›
Quick summit observations
Edit: My Blogging Against Disablism day contribution on this issue is now up here: “BADD: The radical notion that people with disabilities are people, and Australia’s 2020 Summit” ~~~ A couple of things I noticed about the Health section of… Read More ›
Parliamentary Pinkification Panic: the Spanish “Zapettes”
The Spanish ministry has suddenly shot to gender equality, and you know what that means, don’t you, Hoydenizens? It’s fashion week at the Telegraph! The female Spanish and French ministers, individuality-free and named as appendages of the men in charge… Read More ›
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