Saffire was an acoustic trio of uppity blues women who performed together for 25 years from 1984-2009.
Sociology
More Elevatorgate: cornering, uncongeniality and warning flags
Ironically, no one hates high pressure sales tactics more than skeptics. We can’t stand it when a sales associate gets in our face and uses cheap psychological tricks to try to make us buy stuff we don’t want. We take it as an insult to our intelligence. We resent it.
QFT: Cleaning up is a costly business
Over the last few years, the idea of treating the atmosphere with the same level of care as we (now) treat our neighborhoods and our waterways has become an ideological football.
Australia’s Honour killings – In the end, they’re just as dead
James Ramage was released from prison last Friday, after only eight years following his conviction for strangling and bashing his wife, Julie, to death in their house and burying her in a shallow grave. The details of the case reveal… Read More ›
Bye bye Dawkins: a voice from the past
How very disappointing, but sadly not surprising, that he turned out be such a smug, patronising git about more than just religious beliefs.
Signal Boost: postcard against victim-blaming
This is a terrific campaign against rape myths, and Rape Crisis Scotland have made this downloadable as a print-quality PDF:
38th Down Under Feminists Carnival is Up!
Rebecca at bluebec.com has curated a fine collection of writing from Down Under bloggers over the month of June –
Graeme Reeves received 2 to 3.5 year sentence
Trigger warning for medical and sexual violence.
Graeme Reeves has been convicted of indecent assault of two patients and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on another, and sentenced. Survivor Carolyn DeWaegeneire condemns his sentence.
BTW: “invasion”
I put up a post on LP about it yesterday. The discussion is mostly better than I feared.
Quick Hit – Gender Free Preschool
A gender neutral pre-school in Stockholm ruffles some feathers.
Hoyden About Town 