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• And good riddance

  By tigtog on 2011-07-08 • ( 12 )

  

  UK Sunday tabloid News of the World is shutting down after the latest phone-hacking revelations.

• Just say no to uninformed opinions and fat phobia.

  By Mindy on 2011-07-07 • ( 7 )

  

  Don’t let lack of qualifications in the field get in the way of some good old fashioned fat phobia!

• Bye bye Dawkins: a voice from the past

  By tigtog on 2011-07-07 • ( 13 )

  

  How very disappointing, but sadly not surprising, that he turned out be such a smug, patronising git about more than just religious beliefs.

• Thursday Cheezburger – Fail

  By Mindy on 2011-07-07 • ( 3 )

  

  Today’s theme is Fail. This thread is dedicated to the Epic Fail perpetuated in the media this week. Feminism, responsible for everything bad :

• Signal boost: help Skud preserve and disseminate knowledge of Australian music

  By Mary on 2011-07-06 • ( 1 )

  

  Skud is launching a project to preserve the history of Australian music in as open a manner as possible. Can you help?

• Signal Boost: postcard against victim-blaming

  By tigtog on 2011-07-04 • ( 4 )

  

  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!

  By tigtog on 2011-07-04

  Rebecca at bluebec.com has curated a fine collection of writing from Down Under bloggers over the month of June –

• Femmostroppo Reader July 3, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-07-03 • ( 8 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2011-07-02 • ( 33 )

  Today’s otter was snapped in Nebraska by flickr user Shanna Mae. 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?

• Graeme Reeves received 2 to 3.5 year sentence

  By Mary on 2011-07-01 • ( 9 )

  

  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.

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