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• Down Under Feminists Carnival at Fat Lot of Good!

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-09

  Bri has an amazing Down Under Feminists Carnival, our Twenty-Third, up at Fat Lot of Good. There is a focus on Body Acceptance with a whole lot of good reading, and plenty more. Check it out, and spread the word!… Read More ›

• Friday Hoydens: Jazzy Women

  By tigtog on 2010-04-09 • ( 1 )

  This post was inspired by this great gallery on Slate: Jazzy Women. (I only just discovered Slate’s Today’s Pictures feature – fascinating photos every day.) The gallery has 30 photos of fierce, passionate musical women – highly recommended. Here’s just… Read More ›

• Round up the lawyers! A trans person wants a correct birth certificate

  By Queen Emily on 2010-04-09 • ( 7 )

  From the Sydney Morning Herald, a trans man in Sydney named Conor Montgomery is trying to get his birth certificate changed.  So why is this newsworthy? Conor Montgomery, 50, was born a female in Australia but took male hormones, had… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – April 8, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-04-08 • ( 1 )

  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. Astrologers jump on Cox – “In one episode of the show, he said, “…astrology is a… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Kelly Vincent elected to Upper House in South Australia!

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-08 • ( 16 )

  The results have been declared! Image: A smiling Kelly Vincent, Dignity for Disability candidate, with a blue flower in her hair and holding a bouquet of pink roses, sits next to former leader of the Australian Democrats Natasha Stott-Despoja. South… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: The Unquiet Dead

  By lauredhel on 2010-04-08 • ( 6 )

  Continuing the supernatural theme, this week we have: The Unquiet Dead! Post your own favourite not-quite-dead LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct… Read More ›

• Monbiot mistakes the specific for the general

  By tigtog on 2010-04-08

  This strikes me as totally the wrong end of the stick, as if it reveals an attitude towards FoI in principle rather than these vexatious FoI requests in particular.

• Wednesday Warm Fuzzies: Fully Epic Rapsody

  By tigtog on 2010-04-07

  It has now been 102 long days that Ive been here in the hospital all up, isolated with a case of Multi-Drug Resistant TB…. Yep… Still going… Is it normal if you want to eat your own leg?

• My Easter Post on The Drum

  By tigtog on 2010-04-07 • ( 17 )

  Little did I know that leading churchmen around the nation were going to dedicate their Easter messages this year to painting atheism as mad, bad and dangerous to know.

• Second Chance Prom for Constance McMillen

  By tigtog on 2010-04-07 • ( 16 )

  Which she wouldn’t need if she didn’t live in a town full of sanctimonious liars. Congratulations to Fulton, Mississippi for the place you now hold in the annals of bigotry.

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