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• Feminist burnout: the toll of continually responding to the news cycle

  By tigtog on 2015-12-05 • ( 14 )

  

  Late last year, writer Tanya Ashworth contacted me for my answers to some questions she had about the effects of immersing oneself in the background media consumption required to write regularly about feminist issues: the drip-drip-drip of piece after piece of anti-women incident coverage and condescending/fatuous/abusively sexist op-eds. Yesterday she finally managed to get that article published, and my answers are in fine company – Clementine Ford, Van Badham, Lou Heinrich and Viv Smythe: optimism in the face of online abuse.

• Mega Doctor Who Snog, Marry, Avoid.

  By Mindy on 2015-12-04 • ( 3 )

  

  Who would you snog marry or avoid in the Doctor Who Universe?

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By Mary on 2015-11-28 • ( 14 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Classist overtones in the reporting of bulk-billed IVF treatment

  By Jo Tamar on 2015-11-23 • ( 4 )

  

  Does the media reporting of the opening of a new bulk-billing IVF clinic in Melbourne suggest that only those who can pay should have access to IVF treatment? If so, is that classist?

• Quicklink of the Day #2: #DestroyTheJoint excludes voices of women with disabilities

  By tigtog on 2015-11-23 • ( 10 )

  

  So disappointed and angry about DtJ excluding the voices of women with disabilities from their #beingawoman discussions; it’s especially appalling that DtJ community admins have blocked simple announcements about the upcoming White Flower Memorial gathering to commemorate women, men and children with disabilities who have died as a result of violence, neglect or abuse.

• Quicklink Of The Day #1: Transgender Day of Remembrance

  By tigtog on 2015-11-23

  

  Assigned Male on Tumblr posted about what’s important to remember not just on the official day.

• Friday Hoydens: Women in Theatre

  By Anna on 2015-11-13

  

  The Irish theatre scene is currently in an uproar of the best kind. In 1904 the Abbey Theatre in Dublin was co-founded, with W.B. Yeats and Edward Martyn, by Augusta, Lady Gregory to give the voice of the Irish nation… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By Mary on 2015-11-07 • ( 11 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• The 90th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

  By Chally on 2015-11-05

  

  At No Award, Steph and Liz present DUFC #90! Go have a read.

• Media Circus: No More Knights And Dames Edition

  By tigtog on 2015-11-04

  

  Although isn’t it lovely that we do at least now have a Queen of the Sport of Kings? Kudelka nails the much more important announcement that this week’s distractions have successfully pushed off the media cycle’s agenda.

  What’s piqued your media interests lately?

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