40 years of women’s rights will be undone in June 2014 when many of Sydney’s specialist women’s refuges are forced to close. Under the NSW Government’s new tenders, women-only services were not allowed to tender for women-only services.
social justice
Working to eradicate inequalities by highlighting institutional, cultural and insidiously socialised biases and bigotries.
Friday Hoyden: Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is one of the great figures of literature, and of humanity, of the modern age. Her death on Wednesday will be a sorrow to many, but also a prompt to stop and think about her outsized contribution to the total of both the justice and the beauty that exists in our world.
Signal Boost: Beatrice Mtetwa
Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa is making two appearances this week in Sydney, on Thursday and Friday.
Today in Double Standards
I was having a chat about exactly this sort of negativity regarding competent/assertive/expert women this evening: see also classic xkcd on the other side of the coin.
The 72nd Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!
Ambient/everyday discrimination
Some recommended reading from John Scalzi and Soraya Chemaly, and a few thoughts.
Today in Anita’s Irony and Lewis’ Law: my threats will show you that harassment is a myth
Sending a woman rape threats to prove that sexual harassment doesn’t exist proves feminism’s point, not yours.
The 71st Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!
2014 Australian Women Writers Challenge: challenge complete
Stella Longlist 2014 Australian Women Writers Challenge completed.
Give a Voice to Harassment Victims: A legal fund for sexual harassment victim Karen Stollznow
Those of you who are regular followers/lurkers of the atheoskeptosphere probably know about this fundraiser for Karen Stollznow’s legal costs by now, but I’m signal-boosting it for the record …
Hoyden About Town 