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• Hands up who thinks these (and other) prejudices are over

  By tigtog on 2011-05-09 • ( 2 )

  “Virginity tests for immigrants ‘reflected dark age prejudices’ of 1970s Britain”

• Neoliberal welfare and gender inequality

  By Wildly Parenthetical on 2011-05-08 • ( 17 )

  

  I suppose that by now, everyone in Australia has probably come across some version of the latest iteration of the hatin’-on-teen-mums discourse, which comes up with frightening regularity. This version of course, is part of the ‘tough love’ strategy being… Read More ›

• This week in Spooks related obstreperation

  By tigtog on 2011-05-07 • ( 9 )

  In a world where women who are about to become royalty can go shopping in exclusive boutiques wearing ballet flats without upsetting the world’s incredulity meters, why the fuck do you put a woman who is supposed to be an active espionage agent in six inch fucking heels to go and strew misleading evidence around a very ordinary flat?

• Femmostroppo Reader May 7, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-05-07 • ( 1 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2011-05-07 • ( 34 )

  Today’s otter is having a scritch in the sunlight at the London Zoo. Snapped by Esther Simpson.

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Ozblogistan outage

  By tigtog on 2011-05-06 • ( 2 )

  There arewere tech problems occurring in California, apparently. Investigations are occurring, but a whole swathe of oz-blogs are currently unavailable back online.

• Who’s using Dribbble?

  By tigtog on 2011-05-06 • ( 4 )

  Anybody? It looks very interesting, but I’m hesitant to sign up for yet another thing without knowing how other people are finding it usability-wise etc.

• A Prize of One’s Own

  By tigtog on 2011-05-06

  A group of Australian women writers and publishers are working to set up an equivalent of the Orange prize in their country, to combat what they describe as “the systemic exclusion of women writers over several decades” from the country’s major literary awards.

• Quick Hit: Today in ‘equality’

  By Wildly Parenthetical on 2011-05-06 • ( 9 )

  

  Her refusal to cheer for him in basketball games led to her being thrown off the team, and she then sought to sue her school (specifically for infringing her freedom of speech).

• Advice please: dealing with NSW Dept of Education re a student with disabilities

  By tigtog on 2011-05-05 • ( 9 )

  How the fuck can I help this rather lovely young person get the best out of hir education when the existing systems seem to be letting hir down?

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