A Queensland fly has been named after Beyonce’s “golden” rear. Who what where how why?
social justice
Working to eradicate inequalities by highlighting institutional, cultural and insidiously socialised biases and bigotries.
My favourite place in Australia
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.
The Hairpin – Are women people?
Article on The Hairpin – Are women people?
Quick Hit: OMG I don’t even…
@GuardianJessica Jessica Reed
This is totally unacceptable. RT @NaomiMc: Feminism has gone too far again.
Melinda Tankard Reist doesn’t speak for me
It appears MTR is the Feminist of the Moment for the mainstream media. And a large part of her appeal, it seems to me, is that feminism, as she defines it, is a conservative, bourgeois feminism, threatening to specified corporate interests – she’s done good work with Collective Shout and her opposition to the pornification of little girls in general – but generally unthreatening to entrenched patriarchal systems.
Canadian same-sex marriages of foreign couples likely rendered invalid
Well, that was unexpected.
I don’t think that means what you think it means: Margaret Court edition
It is hard that they can voice their opinions but I am not allowed to voice my opinion.
says Margaret Court, freely sharing her opinion on the pages of The Australian.
Crowdsourcing: accessibility on wordpress.com?
I’ve noticed that quite a few of the trendy designs for blog templates on the free WordPress.com site, while looking very gorgeous and all, are just not that accessible for folks – pale grey fonts, especially tiny pale grey fonts, are the worst offender. I’d like to have a list of themes good and bad…
Sunday Singalong: Violeta Parra
OK, this one is Violeta Parra, an incredibly haunting Chilean folk singer who saw folk music as a “weapon against oppression”. Yeah which revolutionary didn’t? She and her children became the song-writers of the left-wing political movement of her country…. Read More ›
Libra’s new transphobic ad, and what you can do about it
So here’s some unnecessary and unkind rubbish in a new ad from Libra, a company selling tampons, pads and liners in New Zealand and Australia. Poking fun at trans women is very much not how to get the tampon-buying public on your side.
Hoyden About Town 