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• Blogging reflexes shot

  By tigtog on 2011-12-07 • ( 13 )

  

  I didn’t grab my camera to take a photo of the zomgwtfbbq stonking huge huntsman spider that was doing a Gandalf-on-the-bridge act in my dishwasher last night.

• Summer Slowdown appears to have arrived

  By tigtog on 2011-12-06 • ( 4 )

  

  …it will be school holidays soon, regardless of the weather, and Giftocalypse follows hard on those heels.

• Homophobia and racism: the Australian media prove they can do two things at once

  By Chally on 2011-12-06 • ( 18 )

  

  There was a bit of a controversy on Sunday when The Daily Telegraph, which is apparently still passing for a newspaper, put up a story called “PM Julia Gillard and Senator Pansy Wong – a reluctant embrace of an emotive… Read More ›

• Queen Victoria and now

  By Mindy on 2011-12-05 • ( 2 )

  

  Have social attitudes to female criminals changed since Queen Victoria’s time?

• Come one! Come all! The 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival heading for Hoyden!

  By Mary on 2011-12-05

  

  As foretold in the prophecy! I am hosting the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival at Hoyden.

  Submissions must be of posts of feminist interest by writers from Australia and New Zealand that were published in December. Submissions are due on 2 January at the latest, but the earlier the better!

• Sunday Screening: The Slap – parenting, friendship, loyalty, secrets

  By tigtog on 2011-12-04 • ( 33 )

  Here There Be Spoilers

  What I found particularly satisfying about the series was how the character-based narrative kept overturning my initial conceptions, each POV episode revealing new challenges, realisations, secrets and dreams as events unreel.

• Click over to the 43rd Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By Chally on 2011-12-03

  

  Deborah of A Bee of a Certain Age has once more supplied us with the Down Under Feminists Carnival, with DUFC edition number 43. It is a rather lovely one, so please go on over and click some links to… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2011-12-03 • ( 21 )

  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? […] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Recently in privacy

  By tigtog on 2011-12-02 • ( 6 )

  Privacy concerns, location monitoring, surveillance culture – especially relevant given the recent “Privacy is for Paedos” line spun by an ex-editor of the News of the World at the UK phone-hacking inquiry.

• Quicklink: China and fashion spending

  By tigtog on 2011-12-02 • ( 1 )

  

  Chinese men spend more on fashion clothing than women. More than twice as much ($1.1 billion to $439 million).

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