Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken figure on behalf of women’s rights and the pro-choice movement for half a century.
Sociology
Hey Dad – this time it’s all YOUR fault
Do fat dads lead to fat kids?
Quickhit: Smart Bitches, Crippy Books?
Prompted by a request from a PWD reader, SB Sarah from romance book review site Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is asking for recommendations for romance novels featuring heroines with disabilities and/or chronic conditions.
Can you help? Would you like some recs?
Where to now with the #mencallmethings momentum?
The gendered cyber harassment campaigns are rank intimidation aimed at silencing us. We have to keep on talking about it so that they do not succeed.
Madison Young on that whole breastfeeding controversy
Image credit. Remember this? A breastfeeding portrait of pornographer and feminist performance artist, Madison Young that led another pornographer to accuse her of exploiting and sexualising her baby? Well, Tracy Clark-Flory has just interviewed Madison Young over at Salon on… Read More ›
Quickhit – bring on the female tradies!
What proportion of tradies would you guess are women?
Gender baby
Image description: a photograph of some stenciled graffiti art on a rendered brick wall. It shows two identical baby faces side by side…
Carbon Price Legislation Passes Senate
Discuss.
Official tigtog position on this legislation: it’s a nice start, should have happened ages ago, bring on the MRRT.
Quickhit: “Womanspace”
After years of apparently expecting his professor wife to work second shift, and suddenly finding that domestic work is not as easy as he thought: Cretaceous manchild virologist cracks “men hunt, women gather” shopping joke as if it’s novel and hilarious…
Do you see Indigenous men as role models?
Aboriginal and Islander men, so readily demonised in Australia, held a march last Saturday in Melbourne in the name of reclaiming, respecting and protecting themselves and their communities.
Hoyden About Town 