Charming title: Face it, fatty, your genes are innocent The Times columnist India Knight has, of course, co-authored a book (and related cookbook) about losing 5 stone a few years ago and has a website for weight-loss support which advertises… Read More ›
social justice
Working to eradicate inequalities by highlighting institutional, cultural and insidiously socialised biases and bigotries.
Torture couture from Galliano
Speechless. Via the SMH, the new men’s collection from John Galliano, inspired by Abu Ghraib, and complete with bleeding neck and chest wounds, black hoods, and nooses. Photos below the cut.
Mitt Romney and his Black Best Friends
Oh my, this is embarrassing. Major cringe warning. Mormon Republican candidate Mitt Romney gathers with a group of African American teenagers at a Martin Luther King Day parade. He spontaneously bursts into a chorus of “Who Let The Dogs Out?”… Read More ›
Supporting an apology
Photo from GetUp! Here’s the text of the e-mail I just sent to my MP: I just wish to offer my support for the Labor government’s decision to take the hugely symbolic and just action of apologising on behalf of… Read More ›
Gestation Anxiety: the othering of intentional single motherhood
“Maverick Mother” is playing on SBS tomorrow, Friday February 1, at 10 pm. (on XY Doc). [1] “Brave stuff”. “Controversial”. ABC’s Life Matters has this to say about Janet Merewether’s autodocumentary, “Maverick Mother”. Did Merewether climb Mt Everest? Take her… Read More ›
The Rotting Cryptkeeper is at it again
Via a commentor at Larvatus Prodeo, I discovered that Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church hate group, is planning to picket the funeral of Heath Ledger as a “fag enabler”. As I’ve blogged before, the WBC’s funeral-picketing… Read More ›
Wahmbulance to the white courtesy phone: sociological concern-trolling
Sociology Article of the Week: John H. Goldthorpe, Michelle Jackson, The British Journal of Sociology 58 (2007) (4), 525–546 “Intergenerational class mobility in contemporary Britain: political concerns and empirical findings” Couched in pseudo-rationalist arms-length language, this paper reads as a… Read More ›
PoCo A PoCo: Fifty Two Acts of Political Correctness
Babalon-93 has suggested that I expand my previous post, “Words Mean Stuff: thorny language”, into a Fifty Two Something series: 52 Something Choose something you would really like to do on a weekly basis and commit to sharing it with… Read More ›
Step up, Rudd: Lib doctors throw down the gauntlet on foreign aid and abortion
This may be a watershed: the Rudd government has been challenged to show its true colours on women’s rights. Way back in the twentieth century, the Liberal government faced a situation where a woman-hating theocon, Brian Harradine, held the balance… Read More ›
Culprits
I’m seeing more and more variations of this argument lately, especially on American sites: World immigration is a direct response to abortion throughout Europe and North America. Workers from poorer countries are always going to come to replace our lack… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 