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• More sexist scum: Johnny Vegas *UPDATE* – in dispute

  By tigtog on 2008-05-04 • ( 27 )

  Update Friday 9th May: The Guardian has taken down the blog post and article featured in the following post. The original report has been challenged strongly and no-one else has come forward to support the allegations. I will leave the… Read More ›

• Weekend Links: A Day In The Life

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-04 • ( 2 )

  For anyone who is trying to fool themselves that the next generation is inheriting a ‘postfeminist’ world, read Hell On Hairy Legs’ summary of a day in the life of a feminist highschooler. This is what my schedule looks like… Read More ›

• Bob Ellis: sexist scum

  By tigtog on 2008-05-03 • ( 6 )

  Rather bemused to find this story through Shakesville via Mark Steyn via Tim Blair via Currency Lad, but they’ve got Bob Ellis bang to rights regarding this column for ABC’s Unleashed. I’m getting to hate this woman. Her towering frigidity,… Read More ›

• Friday Night Fangrrlz: Anthony Stewart Head – RHS & BtVS

  By tigtog on 2008-05-02 • ( 3 )

  For those whose eyes were drawn less to the teens on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more to their mentor as played by Anthony Stewart Head. Head’s a veteran thesp, with a long background in musical theatre, and after having… Read More ›

• Can’t resist

  By tigtog on 2008-05-02

  Everybody’s been posting versions of this today (USA time), but I just had to join in. As a listserv friend posted, Happy Mission Accomplished Day! image source: SeattlePi.com The latest White House press statement on the banner? “President Bush is… Read More ›

• Friday Hoydens: The Suffragettes In Court [Guest post by baroquestar]

  By Guest Poster on 2008-05-02 • ( 5 )

  Today’s guest post is swiped, with permission, from baroquestar. Baroquestar is a 28 year old singing, studying, Australian museum geek with eclectic tastes in reading material. She is a solo mama to one beautiful daughter who likes dogs too, the… Read More ›

• Terrible, horrible, scary UNNATURAL chemicals

  By tigtog on 2008-05-02 • ( 16 )

  Except of course, they aren’t. Our world is chemicals, our life is chemistry. This rant is brought to you by yet another TV talking head rabbiting on about “natural remedies, not those chemical ones” Sorry Kochie, all those natural remedies… Read More ›

• BADD: The radical notion that people with disabilities are people, and Australia’s 2020 Summit

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-01 • ( 13 )

  This post is a part of Blogging Against Disablism Day. Update: BADD isn’t over yet, but if you want to get a start on reading the posts, check out the roundup at Diary of a Goldfish. For most people, health… Read More ›

• Quick link: no link between NT indigenous community permit system and child abuse

  By tigtog on 2008-05-01

  Andrew Bartlett writes: The previous federal government used the spectre of child sexual abuse as justification to scrap the permit system contained in the Land Rights Act, which required people wishing to visit Aboriginal freehold land in the Northern Territory… Read More ›

• Blogging Against Disablism: Mental Illness, Stigmatisation, Coming Out

  By tigtog on 2008-05-01 • ( 49 )

  This is going to be short because if I try and make it a grand narrative I might chicken out of coming out. I am disabled. My disability is invisible. I have a mental illness. I have a disorder of… Read More ›

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