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Black silhouette of an apparently female figure in a top hat on a green background (with some faint writing in the top and bottom thirds), with the words in white: 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-08

Getting back on the reading challenge horse 3 years after the Australian Women Writers challenge started!

The 80th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

By Chally on 2015-01-05

All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!

image text macro of a candle with superimposed text: #FixSociety Leelah Alcorn 1997-2014 #standupforleelah

Standing Up For Leelah

By tigtog on 2015-01-05 • ( 5 )

[Content Note: discusses harassment, family rejection of transgender teens, suicide, trans* erasure, and silencing tactics commonly used to stifle discussion of these matters ].

I find more and more recs for articles written by Arthur Chu in my feeds lately. This post prompted by reactions to the Tumblr’d suicide note left by transgender teen Leelah Alcorn is a particularly strong piece: Cover-ups, Concern Trolls and Suicide. Chu questions why some people want others to stop sharing Leelah’s words.

Sydney’s All About Women festival + Hoyden meetup

By Mary on 2015-01-05 • ( 3 )

The All About Women festival will be held at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 8th March 2015, with speakers including Anita Sarkeesian and Rosie Batty. I suggest we also have a Hoyden meetup that day.

A screenshot of John Cleese as Anne Elk on the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV Show

Today in Wikiwalks: Rational Wiki’s Pseudolaws section.

By tigtog on 2015-01-03 • ( 5 )

I started reading about the “freeman on the land” concept because of that grandiose Manbook misogynist. From the looks of what else is documented in Rational Wiki’s pseudolaw section, I might not emerge for several days. I knew people are strange, but wow.

The 79th Down Under Feminists Carnival

By Mary on 2014-12-11 • ( 2 )

This is the 79th monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together November 2014 posts of feminist interest by writers living in Australia and New Zealand.

Young white woman in powder blue Victorian dress.

What Does Miss Julie have in Common with Gone Girl?

By Anna on 2014-12-11 • ( 1 )

What is the lure of the awful female lead role to an excellent actress? Why, that it is a female lead role.

Hands up anybody now who’d trust Rolling Stone to tell their story?

By tigtog on 2014-12-10 • ( 4 )

“We’ve constructed seemingly infinite incentives for victims to keep silent (you drank too much, you wore too little, you’ll destroy the family, you’ll ruin the fun, your entire sexual history will be dredged and questioned and vivisected … in front of your grandma) and pretty much no compelling reasons to report, nor functional support systems in the aftermath.”