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• In which I clarify a few things about resuscitation of pregnant folk

  By lauredhel on 2010-01-01 • ( 8 )

  Yeah, I get cranky at stories like this one: Tracy Hermanstorfer: Christmas Miracle Mom and Baby Die, Revive I’m thrilled for the family that they both survived this event. I hope they go on to a happy, loving, long life… Read More ›

• Friday Hoydens: Snowfighting Nuns

  By tigtog on 2010-01-01 • ( 4 )

  While one cannot deny that becoming a nun resigns control of large chunks of one’s life to a very rigid hierarchy, nuns do have a history of hoydening with glee at the least opportunity.

• Won’t Somebody Think of the Round Doorknobs? Penn & Teller on Accessibility Legislation

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-31 • ( 18 )

  Courtesy of Anna in her post Let’s Bust Some Myths: People with disabilities just want to sue the world into compliance, I found this video – the lowlights of Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit!” show on the Americans With Disabilities Act…. Read More ›

• Carnival! Submissions close on January 2 for December posts.

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-31

  The Twentieth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! There are around 3 days until the close of submissions, so get your posts in as soon as possible. This edition will be hosted by PharaohKatt at Something… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Drama Class

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-31 • ( 8 )

  Today’s High-School-Class themed LOLcats are all about DRAMA. Post your own favourite Drama Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an… Read More ›

• Retrospecticon 2009: Faves and Fails

  By tigtog on 2009-12-31 • ( 5 )

  Seeing as the media is so predictable on the retrospectives, let’s have at it ourselves.

• Fairfax Feature Fail

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-30 • ( 2 )

  Fairfax never fail to disappoint. Right now WAToday is running a front-page-promoted slideshow thus: The photos of the decade A selection of amazing, spellbinding images from the past ten years. Right next to a photo of a burning World Trade… Read More ›

• Holidays are for Wibble: Aquatic Gardening

  By lauredhel on 2009-12-30 • ( 8 )

  Further to a discussion on one of the Lad’s Xmas presents (a fishtank upgrade), meloukhia from this ain’t livin’ and FWD/Forward (Feminists with Disabilities) pointed me to this article on “aquatic gardening”: fishtanks that concentrate not so much on the… Read More ›

• ‘Avatar’ Indignation Thread

  By Wildly Parenthetical on 2009-12-30 • ( 50 )

  By popular request (and my need for a place to vent, still), this is the thread in which to point out plot holes, the rampant racism, (hetero)sexism and ableism, and general all-round problems with James Cameron’s new ‘epic’, Avatar. Also… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – December 28, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-12-28 • ( 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. Doctor Who: The End of Time – Part 2 – Exclusive Scene (video) – dunh dunh… Read More ›

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