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 ›
Sociology
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 ›
Politicking While Female: Julia Gillard and the “sex class”
The ABC News reports today: Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey has suggested the Government’s work place policies are not as popular as Labor’s because he is not as pretty as Julia Gillard. […] He says the Government’s poor poll results… 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 ›
Young women’s activism: the next generation of abortion doctors
The La Time reports on what motivates the new generation of abortion doctors in the USA. Lederer, 30, can’t relate to the images that drew an older generation of physicians into abortion work. She can barely picture it when they… Read More ›
Feminism 101 Blog update
I’ve just switched the Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog over to wordpress from blogger. I had to do it as my hatred of sucky Haloscan commenting had grown from the fiery heat of a hundred red dwarfs to the raging… Read More ›
Workchoicesplace cases
Peter Lalor at the Australian‘s blogs takes a fairly standard potshot at our goverment deciding to rename the Orwellian Worckchoices scheme and then delivers a litany of cases of workers drastically disadvantaged by unscrupulous employers pushing the Howard government’s new… Read More ›
Andrew Denton Knows His Audience
His final question to the three evangelist brothers – admit it, we all wanted to know about that hair. Image Credit: ABC-TV Update: the comments below have moved more to discussing the competing claims of faith and unbelief outlined in… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 