Wherever so-called hate-crime legislation is passed, the strawmen get built and waved around at an alarming rate. The biggest strawman in the current debate about hate crime legislation in the USA is that it gives gays, blacks, non-Christians special rights… Read More ›
social justice
Working to eradicate inequalities by highlighting institutional, cultural and insidiously socialised biases and bigotries.
“Disposed of”: stolen indigenous woman plans her return
I’ve blogged a couple of times in recent weeks about the Stolen Generations of indigenous children, and about the anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report: Referendum Roundup, and Indigenous Health “Report Card” Australian linguistocide, and antipodeal approaches to aboriginal… Read More ›
Referendum Roundup, and Indigenous Health “Report Card”
A few people are blogging about the tenth anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report, and the the 40th anniversary of the referendum that decided that Australian indigenous people are human, that they should be counted in the Australian census…. Read More ›
New to the blogroll
Angry Black Woman: via Winter at Mind the Gap! who says everyone should read this blog, and I concur. I’ve read a few things there every now and then, but recently I’ve been lurking and learning almost daily. This recent… Read More ›
Australian linguistocide, and antipodeal approaches to aboriginal education
I have a Google News alert set up for, among many other things, the word “aboriginal”. Yesterday, two contrasting stories dropped into my inbox. First, ABC News (Australia) reports that it’s indigenous people’s own darn fault if they’re unemployed and… Read More ›
Feed the wo-orld… one baby, anyhow.
UPDATE: 4 June 2007 Jill Youse has finally responded in the Mothering forums. We were absolutely correct. Prolacta is skimming off 75% of milk donated by mothers for Africa, for sale and for profit within the USA. Prolacta is “reimbursing”… Read More ›
Sorry Matters, and Assimilation
Over the past week there has been a huge amount of discussion in the femiblogosphere about dropping the defensive, domineering blustering and starting to listen to people of colour. Listening has got to be step one if there is to… Read More ›
Invisible Lesbians!
Over on Larvatus Prodeo, people have been discussing the “invisible lesbians” in (or rather, not in) the press photo of Mary Cheney and Heather Poe’s brand new son. Cheney and Bush have all been carefully skirting press questions about their… Read More ›
Grrrr.
A fine rant from Amanda: Subsidized day care is murder – inspired by yet more US “pro-life” legislation against contraception that will result in increased abortion rates, the exact opposite of the fewer abortions they say they want. the notion… Read More ›
Oh c’mon, get angry at Hicks, c’mon!
The Daily Terror is desperately trying to get us all upset that Hicks is getting “perks” that the rest of us should view “with a mixture of anger, suspicion and displeasure” apparently. (Never mind that these “perks” are not anything… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 