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• The Tenth Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching – please submit your posts now.

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-26 • ( 1 )

  The Tenth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! The deadline for submissions is the end of the month, so get your posts in before midnight Saturday. SUBMIT YOUR POSTS HERE. This edition will be hosted by… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Hoyden Kittehs!

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-26 • ( 6 )

  Hoydenkittehs say Happy Thursday:

• I should have known better

  By Mindy on 2009-02-26 • ( 22 )

  but I clicked onto Sam de Brito’s blog anyway because I was bored. I skipped the whole ‘fat bottom’ thing and went to look at the post with the piccy of Julia Gillard (our deputy PM for our OS readers)…. Read More ›

• Not so wordless Wednesday

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-26 • ( 39 )

  [Via Mothers for Women’s Lib.]

• Quickhit: “He’s just a rich rapist who has suffered enough”

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-25 • ( 25 )

  Via commenter Fem at Ideologically Impure comes this rape story out of New Zealand. It’s hardly original, but it is an exemplar of the genre. Warm up your Rape Apologist Bingo cards (I think credit should go to Shakesville for… Read More ›

• Whoydensday: Ace (Guest Post from Chally)

  By Guest Poster on 2009-02-25 • ( 41 )

  I don’t believe you’ve met my young friend Ace, an expert in calorification, incineration, carbonization, and inflammation.
  -The Doctor, The Happiness Patrol

  Dorothy McShane of Perivale, UK, better known as Ace, was the Doctor’s companion in Doctor Who from 1987 until the show’s cancellation in 1989. She was young. She was independent. She was tough. She was smart. She was a glorious feminist character.

• *waves*

  By tigtog on 2009-02-25 • ( 7 )

  Sorry all – supervising and exhorting a teen feeling horribly overwhelmed by Year 10 homework is currently consuming most of the time I would otherwise use for blogging. Just put a post up at FF101 though in response to a… Read More ›

• Bad science on booze in pregnancy: Women infantilised with absolutist messages

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-24 • ( 51 )

  I read this article in The West a little while ago, and it hit my bad-science peeve button. “Half of WA women drink throughout pregnancy“. This beat-up is certainly not alone in drawing conclusions that do not follow from the… Read More ›

• Best op-ed title evah

  By tigtog on 2009-02-22 • ( 2 )

  Turnbull in a china shop

  He’s right – the Libs at the moment are just a total farce.

• Quickhit: Is the WA government going to try to pre-empt Stolen Wages legal action?

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-21 • ( 6 )

  Aboriginal people in Western Australia were enslaved and exploited from 1905 to 1972 by the government of this State. They are owed at least 300 million dollars according to Aboriginal activist Howard Riley. A report that yet remains secret is… Read More ›

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