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social justice
Working to eradicate inequalities by highlighting institutional, cultural and insidiously socialised biases and bigotries.
Transgender Day of Remembrance: Living with the threat
Even though it’s remembrance of all the deaths worldwide, most writings you’ll find about TDOR online will be from the US, where the day started. But it’s important to acknowledge the specifics of exactly who it is dying, rather than universalise the violence as affecting all trans men, women, genderqueers and other non-binaries equally.
UK Guantanamo detainee settlements
This settlement allows the government to kick the formal inquiry about government complicity in maltreatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a judicial review, of which the most obvious benefit is that secret papers from the intelligence services will not be subpoenaed to be presented in an open court.
Marriage Equality Rally in Sydney — November 27th
Post made sticky on the front page because the march is this weekend!
Finally
Burma’s military rulers have released the country’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest
Belated hooray for the High Court
About time that we had more accountability and transparency about our treatment of asylum seekers who are processed offshore; successive governments have been keeping them conveniently out of voters’ sight for far too long now, which allows all sorts of wild claims to be made about these mythical beings.
Of course, some voters prefer it that way, but I don’t think much of those voters’ worldview on good citizenship.
Quicklink: high-school formal says no to same-sex couple
An Ivanhoe Grammar girl wasn’t allowed to take her girlfriend to her high-school formal.
Femmostroppo Reader November 9, 2010
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Signal Boost: Carnival Reminders
Firstly, the next Down Under Feminist Carnival…Secondly, a new carnival: the inaugural Blog Carnival of Mental Health is being organised right now.
Anybody got any other carnivals they’d like to plug?
Femmostroppo Reader November 3, 2010
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Hoyden About Town 