social justice – Page 17 – Hoyden About Town

a silver bearded man in a fishing cap gazes thoughtfully into the distance, in the background is a wide stretch of water and a square-rigged sailing ship beside a lighthouse, all underneath a dark and cloudy sky

Our best sign yet that we are doing something right.

By Anna on 2013-05-27 • ( 7 )

Content note: child rape.
Didion at Feminéma, who has just become my new favourite person, has written a response to comments made by Roman Polanski at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, where he continues to be welcome.

Kevin thread

By tigtog on 2013-05-21 • ( 9 )

Interesting timing.

ST: TNG - Picard and Riker each are hiding their face behind a hand with a weary posture

Ron Lindsay’s #wiscfi twist on the conventional Opening Speech

By tigtog on 2013-05-19 • ( 9 )

How to undermine your own Women In Secularism conference: spend most of your opening speech scolding feminists for Doin It Rong, because why not encourage the already hyper-active flying monkeys to fling more crap at secular women?

Links Post

By Mindy on 2013-05-17 • ( 5 )

Link round up.

The silhouette of a man wearing a long dark billowing coat stands on a pile of wreckage and looks out over a devastated metropolis

Racebending on Star Trek Into Darkness

By tigtog on 2013-05-15 • ( 19 )

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m a big fan of the Cumberbatch, and I thoroughly enjoyed his performance as the villain in the latest Star Trek movie so long as I could forget his character’s name:

SPOILERS!

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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?

Signal Boost: women being prosecuted for retracting domestic violence allegations

By Anna on 2013-05-09 • ( 3 )

From Destroy the Joint, a call for action at NSW state level: call upon the Attorney General Greg Smith to issue a direction to the NSW DPP under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act to ensure that no one is prosecuted solely for retracting an allegation of domestic or sexual violence without the approval of a senior lawyer within the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Update: Attorney-General Greg Smith has made a statement that he has no plans to revise the existing laws relating to this matter. Now is the time to up the pressure.