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Stolen Generations experiments: Australia’s Tuskegee?
[image source: Turing Foundation] News.com.au: Aboriginal children ‘injected with leprosy’ Allegations have arisen that Aboriginal children from the Stolen Generation may have been infected with leprosy or injected with experimental medication while institutionalised. The issue was raised during a Senate… Read More ›
Belated Blog for Solidarity: Congo Rape Epidemic
With everything else I had happening last weekend, I missed this blogswarm. I have nothing to add to Melissa’s wonderful post anyway: Blog in Solidarity: Congo Rape Epidemic I know it’s horrible. I know it’s the last fucking thing in… Read More ›
New Governor-General: feminist Quentin Bryce
[image source] Our new Governor-General, Quentin Bryce; lawyer, academic, and activist for women and for human rights. How awesome is that? On blog quietness: tigtog’s dealing with her family stuff, I’ve got a nassssty bug. Do please feel free to… Read More ›
What Shakesville said
We Write Letters
I’ll never look at Tony Hill in quite the same way again
Damn you, Gummo! Seriously, a great post on a skeptical approach to psychological profiling in homicide cases.
Free Speech Frolics
@ndy at Slackbastard is having a few adventures with folks in the UK serving a “cease and desist” letter to his webhosting service based on defamation allegedly contained in one of @ndy’s posts. The “chilling effect” of this notice of… Read More ›
WOC ‘Engage best through negative discourse’: Seal Press
You know how Seal Press aren’t at all racist? And how these book covers[1] are just all mass-market-fun and goofball and ironic and hilarious and why must you always be so serious and critique-y and stuff anyway? Well. The amazing… Read More ›
Move to close WA Parliamentary sexual harassment loophole
Remember we were all wondering a few months ago how Troy Buswell had managed to continue his rise to the leadership of the Western Australian Liberal Party, despite his history of sexually harassing colleagues and staffers alike?
Hospital predator’s appeal rejected: blames rape on victim, non-existent mental health disorder
Just another example[1] of the way in which vulnerable girls are used and abused by men who think they’re entitled to their bodies. This particular rapist was supposed to be tending to his hospitalised son overnight, but instead he decided… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 