Anyone in Israel who thought that stopping this flotilla would starve the gesture of publicity made a woeful miscalculation once they opened fire on the high seas, not even in their own territorial waters, on humanitarian demonstrators. They claim self defence (5 out of 6 boats were seized peacefully, one wasn’t) but as Christine Keeler might say – they would, wouldn’t they?
social justice
Working to eradicate inequalities by highlighting institutional, cultural and insidiously socialised biases and bigotries.
Quick Hit: In Which I am Impressed
I’ve long thought that the voting age in Australia should be lowered to 16 — I’ve believed this since I was 16 years old myself and had to content myself with handing out how-to-vote cards, because I was unable to… Read More ›
(Belated) BADD: Fictional Heroes with Disabilities
(My apologies for the lateness of this post — still, I’m sure it’s still May 1 in one or two timezones. :)) While it’s true that people with disabilities are under-represented and misrepresented in popular culture, I wanted to spend… Read More ›
Leave it to football to prove that women are the ‘sex class’
Gentlemen, a bit of perspective please. A police inquiry into an affair of prostitution involving an under-age call girl could not have come at a worse time for Raymond Domenech and his players just 50 days before the start of… Read More ›
How many hours can someone be stuck in a car?
On Monday there was an accident on NSW’s F3 freeway, which runs from Sydney to Newcastle and is thus a major commuter road. The accident involved two trucks and completely stopped northbound traffic from 11:40am. For various reasons the road… Read More ›
Second Chance Prom for Constance McMillen
Which she wouldn’t need if she didn’t live in a town full of sanctimonious liars. Congratulations to Fulton, Mississippi for the place you now hold in the annals of bigotry.
Let’s Dance
A US lawyer says a lesbian student who sued a Mississippi school over its policy banning same-sex prom dates can bring her girlfriend to a privately sponsored dance. The dance is not the school prom, that is still cancelled, it… Read More ›
WA Government to apologise for abusive, illegal adoption system
The West Australian today reports that the WA government may become the first State government to publicly acknowledge and fully apologise to all mothers and children forced into adoptions, and harmed by illegal adoption practices. For decades in the mid… Read More ›
Peter Hayward’s Homeless Adventure. [Guest post by Napalmnacey]
Hey everyone, I’m Napalmnacey. I’ve blogged for years informally at my LJ, logansrogue, and now I’m contributing at Hoyden! I’m an artist, musician and singer, and I’m working on my first novel. I write and draw comics and I am… Read More ›
“Saying conjoined twins are disabled is insulting!”: Evelyn Evelyn, redux
[Cross-posted to Disabled Feminists] Something that has really struck me about the conversations around Evelyn Evelyn is the reaction that “Conjoined twins don’t have a disability! To say they do is insulting!” Not all commenters make the link between the… Read More ›
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