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• Happy Birthday, Sesame Street

  By Beppie on 2009-11-11 • ( 5 )

  As you may have noticed if you’ve used Google recently, this week marks the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, an educational children’s show that has always attempted to be promote diversity and understanding. While it has not always been perfect… Read More ›

• More on St Paul’s College “Define Statutory” facebook page

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-10 • ( 5 )

  Mary wrote yesterday about rape culture in university residential colleges, and about her lack of surprise that students from St Paul’s college* at the University of Sydney had set up a facebook page, Define Statutory, that characterised itself as being… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – November 10, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-11-10 • ( 2 )

  Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• University colleges: nurturing a rape culture

  By Mary on 2009-11-09 • ( 39 )

  Warning: this post has graphic quotes from and links to mainstream media accounts of rape culture and imagery, and sexual violence. One of the profoundly disturbing aspects of rape culture discussions—and this won’t surprise readers here—is the way that they… Read More ›

• 18th Down Under Feminist Carnival is up at Wallaby

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-09

  The Eighteenth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is up at Jo Tamar’s place, Wallaby! She opens with the theme of Caring, before moving on to a panoply of links covering disability, the arts, geekery, racism, indigenous issues, religion,… Read More ›

• Once again for the clue-challenged

  By tigtog on 2009-11-09 • ( 70 )

  People who make lazy/nasty rape jokes just for shock value are self-entitled insensitive jerks, it is right and proper to call them out for being self-entitled insensitive jerks, it does not infringe upon their right of expression or freedom of speech to call them self-entitled insensitive jerks. People being self-entitled insensitive jerks about rape IS rape culture.

• Made You Look! Magazine from Don’t DIS my ABILITY

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-07 • ( 7 )

  The New South Wales “Don’t DIS my ABILITY” campaign has just released the latest edition of Made You Look magazine, and it’s a great read. As far as I can tell, it’s only available in PDF, or in hardcopy if… Read More ›

• Quickhit: Michael Shermer video version of Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit

  By tigtog on 2009-11-07 • ( 4 )

  This video was published by the Richard Dawkins Foundation in June this year. The original kit was published as Chapter 12: The Fine Art of Baloney Detection in Carl Sagan’s book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (ISBN 0-394-53512-X / ISBN 0-345-40946-9).

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-07 • ( 7 )

  It’s hard to dislike the charming Otter Story website. The UK illustrator responsible says he’s working on a book, so keep your eyes peeled. ~~~ Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is… Read More ›

• 2 Melbourne Labradors need a good home

  By tigtog on 2009-11-06 • ( 21 )

  I received this as a forwarded email, so I’m keeping personal details unpublished but will pass the email details of anyone genuinely interested along to the original author, who has to move overseas and cannot take them along. Cookie and Coco are just 3 years old and deeply attached to each other, so they desperately want to place them together. They are also accustomed to small children.

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