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• Femmostroppo Reader – September 2, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-02 • ( 4 )

  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. As a parent, where does your story end and theirs begin? – “so, who owns the… Read More ›

• Canadian study finds mothers & babies much less likely to be injured in homebirth

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-02 • ( 20 )

  Via Science and Sensibility, this new homebirth study out of British Columbia should be required reading for our Health Department and policy-makers: “Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician”[1]. This high-quality… Read More ›

• Submit NOW for the Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By lauredhel on 2009-09-02 • ( 1 )

  Past Editions First Edition: , 6th June 2008 at Hoyden About Town Second Edition: 4th July, 2008 at In A Strange Land Third Edition: 7th August, 2008 at Audrey and the Bad Apples Fourth Edition: 1st September, 2008 at Blue… Read More ›

• Virtual traveling: more faves

  By tigtog on 2009-09-01 • ( 3 )

  A mosaic of the latest photos I have “favourited” in Flickr – I seem to have been in a largely monochromatic mood lately.

• One minister leaves, another returns

  By tigtog on 2009-09-01 • ( 29 )

  Should a sexual infidelity, no matter how salacious, be something that makes a politician resign? Do we really care who John Della Bosca is bonking?
  In far happier news, Victoria’s Tim Holding found after spending two nights in sub-zero conditions.

• Are these things really the same?

  By Mindy on 2009-09-01 • ( 6 )

    Image from Adelaide Now Daisy doll from Positive Images Adelaide Now is running a story on the return of Golliwogs. A store in Adelaide is selling them, saying that banning them in the first place was an act of… Read More ›

• Dawn Fraser demonstrates crone power

  By tigtog on 2009-09-01 • ( 5 )

  Startled in the middle of the night by intruders, 72 year old former Olympian Dawn Fraser used her swimmer’s strength backed up by strategic deployment of her titanium knee to fight off one teenager who had grabbed her around the throat.

  Not a fan of violence, but definitely a fan of self-defence, I say yay for Dawn.

• Ten Steps to a Perfect Fanstorm

  By lauredhel on 2009-08-31 • ( 30 )

  1. Gender-evpsych/cogsci researcher and game show contestant Ogi Ogas decides to prove that men’s and women’s desire is hardwired differently, using his Boston Uni credentials to gather material for a book which he’s going to call Rule 34: What Netporn… Read More ›

• If I’d had my camera with me I would have taken a picture rather like this

  By tigtog on 2009-08-31 • ( 4 )

  Except the dog was four times this size, the swans were black and the cygnets were still in their eggs in a nest. In our local big park.

• Quickhit: Pay transparency

  By tigtog on 2009-08-31 • ( 8 )

  The Federal Government is being pressured to force companies to reveal how their pay rates for men and women compare.

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