I didn’t have a home birth, one of my children was born in a birth centre and the other one in a mainstream hospital but I absolutely support the right for other women to choose home birth if they so… Read More ›
Sociology
Katrina and Irene
Stories about Irene will be all over the news today, and many of them will say that the evacuation orders for low-lying areas, particularly in NYC, were an overreaction. They will say this because there have been so few deaths, so few tragic images for the news media. The people who will be saying this will be wrong.
Viva la Vulva (possibly NSFW)
Hey, wanna get all ‘1970’s Germain Greer’ feminism and analyse female genital art together? Oh, don’t be such a kill-joy, yes you do. This is an interesting art piece. The sculptor, Jamie McCartney has created a piece called The Great… Read More ›
Is the Genie out of the bottle?
Have we reached a tipping point in Australian politics? Will the protests end with a change of government?
Too sexy for breastfeeding?
Image credit. (Some Not Suitable For Work links included in this post). Not long after her baby was born, Madison Young, an adult actor – also an artist, film director, gallery director, and activist – put on an art show… Read More ›
Congratulations Sensei Fukuda!
This news made me squeal like David Tennant being offered cake – last week Sensei Keiko Fukuda became the first ever woman to earn a 10th degree black belt in judo.
When one’s right to dissent is so terribly, terribly suppressed…
…that one can only manage to get one’s views published in the opinion pages of a national broadsheet, one knows that the nation is in a parlous state of enforced conformity indeed.
O Brave New Web, That Has Such Real Name Policies In It!
I’ve just started a new Flickr group called Brave New Web, inspired by the awesome my.nameis.me website.
Wear Red for Daniel.
An arrest has been made in the Daniel Morcombe case. The arrested person faces court tomorrow. Supporters of Daniel and his family are asked to wear something red tomorrow to show your support.
Border Gimps: Living on the Border
Over the last many years I have struggled with physical limitations. I and a few friends like me, have come to call ourselves “Border Gimps”, especially since society not only loves to have a name for things, but also to help sort through the current “P.C. phrase of the month”. Now I know there are as many thoughts on that sort of thing as there are people to think them, but here is how I and mine define it.
Hoyden About Town 