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• Linkblurt: We are assaulted

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-29 • ( 3 )

  *WARNINGS apply to this post – descriptions of assault and abuse of people with disabilities, including sexual abuse*

• Law & Order: “Dignity”, Worth, and the Medical Model of Disability

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-29 • ( 25 )

  [x-posted from FWD/Forward: Feminists With Disabilities] As a feminist, I am pro-choice. Abortion should be safe, legal, and accessible. As a feminist, I look at more than whether single, individual women have access to abortion. There is a much broader… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Are We Safe Yet?

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-29 • ( 7 )

  Are we safe yet? Runner-up:

• Femmostroppo Reader – October 28, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-10-28 • ( 8 )

  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. The Name Game – “Apparently 70 percent of Americans believe that a woman should change her… Read More ›

• Quote for the day: sexual favouritism creates a hostile work environment

  By tigtog on 2009-10-28 • ( 1 )

  There’s a subset of sexual harassment called sexual favoritism that, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, can lead to a “hostile work environment,” often “creating an atmosphere that is demeaning to women.”

  And that pretty much sums up my experience at Late Night with David Letterman.

• Virtual Travelling – Ceci n’est pas cinq parasols

  By tigtog on 2009-10-27 • ( 5 )

  This photo is actually untitled by the artist, but I feel this piece of conceptual art photography has more than a touch of the spirit of Magritte.

• More for the “men stand by while other men beat their property” files

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-27 • ( 9 )

  Further to the Amazing Race assault post, another example of how men will just stand around while a man beats a woman, so long as they can assume that the woman is the man’s property. Etana at Fatshionista writes “When… Read More ›

• Maintenance time again!

  By tigtog on 2009-10-27

  The theme that runs this site, Thesis, has been updated, so it’s time to do a bit of fiddling in the background to get it installed and take advantage of its new features. So I’m putting the blog into Maintenance Mode for an hour or so.

• Quickhit: Lesbian mums are “offensive language”, say Scholastic censors

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-27 • ( 6 )

  At change.org: You have to wonder why an organization dedicated to getting students to read would decide to make censorship such an important part of their work. […] But that’s what Scholastic Books is doing by banning a book from… Read More ›

• OBs denying doula access: Where’s the SCIENCE!!!1!?

  By lauredhel on 2009-10-26 • ( 12 )

  Can someone show me again the SCIENCE!!!1! behind denying access to a doula during maternity care? Here are a few excerpts of papers I found, mixed in type (quantitative research, qualitative research, meta-analysis, review), on doula care. Emphases are mine…. Read More ›

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