(Thanks to Emily Maguire for the link to this video from Sydney Boys High School on their Gender Equality Project). Cross-posted at blue milk.
gender & feminism
Slam Poetry for Feminism
Via Clementine Ford on FB, two great slam poetry performances from a few years ago.
Sexist joke bingo
In collaboration with Hoydenizens and others, a bingo card for arguments in defence of sexist jokes, specifically, the variants on “but it was FUNNY”.
On the not Grokking of Internet Bingo Cards
Let me hand a depressingly large number of people an embarrassingly obvious cluestick: nobody gets to yell BINGO! on marking just one square.
Femmostroppo Reader February 13, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Friday Hoyden: Dr Ivy Williams, first woman called to the English Bar
“She now set her heart on being called to the bar (not, it seems, for her own sake but to offer free legal advice to the poor).”
Looking for an expert female speaker for your Australian event?
After nearly a year in concept, the No Chicks No Excuses website listing women speakers covering a wide variety of expertise has been launched, so that organisers no longer find it so terribly difficult to find women who know how to speak at a large event.
Quicklink: newswithnipples on Mark Latham’s sexism
She wrote all about it, which means I don’t have to!
Yet another Dickwolves post
[TW: rape culture] Don’t know about it yet? You’re lucky. Here’s a timeline. Geek Feminism and Shakesville have multiple posts on how Penny Arcade fucked up not so much with just(!) an insensitive rape joke in their webcomic, but with their mockingly dismissive responses (and how that played into their fans’ responses) to people’s objections to that webcomic.
Femmostroppo Reader February 3, 2011
Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. I deliberately didn’t link to lots of coverage of Australian natural disasters or the Egyptian uprisings, because there’s just so much to sort through. What else did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.
Hoyden About Town 