Yet again, the pro-life movement betrays its classism – forget all those other reproductive health care services Planned Parenthood provides – services that help poor women survive and thrive in pregnancy and birthing, and that keep them healthy to raise their children.
If you follow me (@vivsmythe) on Twitter, you may have already seen these: items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader (mostly). What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!
I have a stuffy nose and a fuzzy brane that has not come up with much in the way of thinky-thoughts today. I don’t like it.
The survey is open to readers of the blog who live in Australia. The survey will be used in a forthcoming (2012) book on the internet and Australia.
This is the 44th monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together December 2011 feminist posts from writers living in Australia and New Zealand.
Today is the second Australia Day since I moved to the United States. One of the most surprising things for me to experience out of Australia was people saying–even in the American South!–Australia’s really racist, isn’t it? And personally, I hate that. I hate that there is such a strong implicit idea of who an Australian “is,” and how racist and dependent on assimilation that is. I hate the way that is enforced with violence and ugly rhetoric, and I hate the policies that our country mobilises against Aboriginal communities and refugees.
And yet. For all that I hate what Australia Day represents, I am more homesick than usual today.
A Queensland fly has been named after Beyonce’s “golden” rear. Who what where how why?
It’s a question with so many potential answers in such an amazing land, and it’s also a question of which place is the least painful.
Article on The Hairpin – Are women people?
@GuardianJessica Jessica Reed
This is totally unacceptable. RT @NaomiMc: Feminism has gone too far again.
Hoyden About Town 