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• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2010-08-07 • ( 23 )

  Today’s otters… have quills. And ickle cutesome noses. And teeny pink feet. And they’re not actually mustelids, as such. And… they’re hedgehogs. I couldn’t resist! Check these out! Via The Daily Squee. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

• Friday Hoyden: Best Feminist Young Adult Books

  By tigtog on 2010-08-06 • ( 8 )

  What was the first book you read and thought “wow, I never knew girls/women could do that“? Or alternatively, the first book you read and thought “why on earth would those people think girls/women shouldn’t do that?”.

• Laws requiring early electoral roll closure ruled unconstitutional

  By Mary on 2010-08-06 • ( 9 )

  From SMH, news just in: The High Court have ruled that Howard-era laws which close the electoral rolls on e day that writs for an election are issue are invalid… Activist group GetUp! brought the constitutional challenge, arguing the laws… Read More ›

• Election Week 3: Zombie Apocalypse

  By tigtog on 2010-08-05 • ( 8 )

  Seriously, the campaign becomes more bizarre every day. Any predictions?

• Spot Big Tobacco’s Contradiction

  By tigtog on 2010-08-05 • ( 11 )

  “Plain packaging is not a proven policy,” she said. “There’s no credible evidence that this policy will stop people smoking, that it will stop kids, young people, taking up cigarette smoking.

• Sydney, Australia feminist blogger meet-up on 29 August!

  By lauredhel on 2010-08-05 • ( 1 )

  Announcing a meet-up for feminist blog folk in the Sydney region. You don’t need to write a blog yourself or be a regular commenter or anything, it’s just an invitation to come and hang out with some like-minded folk for a couple of hours.

• Thursday Cheezburger: Odd One Out

  By lauredhel on 2010-08-05 • ( 4 )

  One of these things is not like the other ones…

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

• Peeve: it’s RAISES/RAISING the question, dangnabbit

  By tigtog on 2010-08-05 • ( 4 )

  Unless one has made some detailed study of the field of rhetoric, and the use and misuse of logical fallacies therein, one is almost certainly not using the phrase “begs/begging the question” correctly. Yes, world – UR DOIN IT RONG.

• Is motherhood really that hard?

  By Mindy on 2010-08-04 • ( 30 )

  Jacinta Tynan is asking. Before I unpack this article, I just want to say that I’m very happy that Jacinta is enjoying being a Mum. That is fantastic. However, she is only one woman and her experiences do not reflect those… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – August 4, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-08-04 • ( 3 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments

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