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• Open Letter to Melbourne Queer Film Festival attendees

  By Guest Poster on 2011-02-25 • ( 18 )

  This guest post is from Jonathan Williams, a member of the MQFF trans selection panel, a body which did NOT select one particular trans-themed film which has been included in the festival program.

• US High Schools refusing to allow student atheist groups

  By tigtog on 2011-02-25 • ( 10 )

  The level of bigotry against atheists in the USA frequently appals me; this article by Greta Christina lays out one of the less obvious ways it is expressed.

• LIBERATE

  By tigtog on 2011-02-24 • ( 14 )

  Things are moving so fast around Northern Africa and the Middle East right now. History in the making.

  Update: I’m designating this as an open thread on the uprisings and the attempts to suppress them.

• Thursday Cheezburger – You can’t resist

  By Mindy on 2011-02-24 • ( 9 )

  Today’s theme is: You can’t resist

  Post your own favourite in-theme Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.

• Hover

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-02-23 • ( 2 )

  From the photographic series, The Girl Who Loves to Levitate by Natsumi Hayashi. “We are all surrounded by social stress as we are bound by the forces of earth’s gravity,” Natsumi says when asked why she took on the series…. Read More ›

• Whoydensday: Vale Nicholas Courtney (1929-2011)

  By Beppie on 2011-02-23 • ( 9 )

  Raise a glass tonight for Nicholas Courtney, who played UNIT’s Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge Stewart in Doctor Who, appearing with the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctors, and also in a 2008 episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. He… Read More ›

• Gorgeous BAFTA artwork

  By tigtog on 2011-02-23 • ( 1 )

  BAFTA apparently commission a different graphic artist every year to come up with 5 posters in their own style for each of the Best Picture nominees, and they use these 5 images as covers for these brochures that they hand out to all attendees.

• Femmostroppo Reader February 23, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-02-23

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

• What if boys cared about gender equality?

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-02-22 • ( 1 )

  (Thanks to Emily Maguire for the link to this video from Sydney Boys High School on their Gender Equality Project). Cross-posted at blue milk.

• Life at 3: obesity

  By Mary on 2011-02-22 • ( 2 )

  

  Life at 3: Fighting Fat. Ooo boy. It probably wasn’t ever going to be good, was it? Good food, bad food, headless fatties and children in marginalised families reduced to obesity risks.

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