Mum Shirl is the autobiography of Shirly Smith an Aboriginal activist and social worker. Just one of the books I am reading for #AWW2013.
social justice
Working to eradicate inequalities by highlighting institutional, cultural and insidiously socialised biases and bigotries.
Nugget of Awesome: I wouldn’t mind losing my privileges if it meant other people were treated the same way as I am
I like that I don’t worry about being beaten for my sexuality by bigots. I like that I don’t worry about being pulled over by a cop because my skin color. I like that I don’t have to be worried about being under paid because of my gender and race. I like that I don’t worry about people attacking me for finding out that my sex at birth and gender match. I like that I don’t worry about a bunch of people making laws over what goes on in my body. I like that I can speak out and not worry about being physically assaulted due to my size and gender.
The 58th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
All the details on the latest edition (DUFC #58 at wom*news), and how to submit to the next one!
Signal boost: …and you say rape culture doesn’t exist tumblr
Signal Boost: it’s easy, as an individual, to dismiss interactions with creeps as specific to you/the place you were/the thing you were doing/the thing you were wearing and I call bullshit on that.
Pamela Denoon Lecture 2013: Clementine Ford
This year’s Pamela Denoon Lecture at the ANU in Canberra will be given by Clementine Ford on the topic “Misogyny, Power and the Media”.
6:30pm, Wednesday 6 March, free and open to the public.
Aiming to please everybody won’t work
Feminism that prioritises popularity over its own integrity will necessarily fail, as it is bound to reproduce the very problems it is fighting against.
A couple of things to bear in mind with the ‘slacker mum’ movement
Jane Caro has just written a rather charming article, “Over-mothered? No, over mothering” for the Sydney Morning Herald. For birthdays, I bought two packs of 12 lamington fingers and stuck a candle in each one. They served a whole class…. Read More ›
Those who do not know their internet history are doomed to repeat it, clearly.
Datum the First: On April 8, 2007 Tim O’Reilly wrote a Draft Blogger’s Code Of Conduct …In the nearly seven years since, many similar initiatives have been proposed.
5 years since the Apology
Link round up for the 5th Anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generation [edited ~M]
The 57th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
All the details on the latest edition, and how to submit to the next one!
Hoyden About Town 