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• Hurrah for librarians

  By tigtog on 2008-04-05 • ( 4 )

  If you are restricting access to information, they will notice during the course of their normal duties, and they will let the world know, and then you will look like censoring buffoons. In February, in line with various other information-stifling… Read More ›

• Shopping tip

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-05 • ( 3 )

  I don’t know how many are left, but “Australian Feminism: A Companion.”, ed Barbara Caine is remaindered at Clouston & Hall right now for $19.95. (RRP a hundred bucks). A huge project which provides information on every aspect of feminism…. Read More ›

• More “Teehee! Boobies!” from the breast cancer awareness industry

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-04 • ( 10 )

  And again, a ‘breast cancer awareness’ ad misses the mark completely. This ad is from the pinkified crazysexycancer campaign “Rethink”, sponsored by a femirazor company and fashion, makeup and hairstyling product manufacturers, among others. You may remember Rethink from such… Read More ›

• Blogslump.

  By lauredhel on 2008-04-04 • ( 10 )

  Blogslump. Sorry, people. I will be back. Meanwhile, enjoy the Bookshelf Blog.

• Friday Hoyden: Zoe Bell

  By Guest Poster on 2008-04-04 • ( 4 )

  Guest post from Helen – thanks! Uma Thurman chats with Zoe Bell on the set of Kill Bill What hoyden wouldn’t thrill to the scene in Kill Bill 1 where Beatrix Kiddo, fighting off a hundred or so gangsters, flies… Read More ›

• Too depressed to post

  By tigtog on 2008-04-03 • ( 13 )

  I did a lot of catching up on American feminist and political blogs today, and it’s looking more and more like the Democratic Party is allowing the factionalism between the Clinton and Obama camps to piss away electoral goodwill. Look… Read More ›

• Misogyny hurting men

  By tigtog on 2008-04-02 • ( 9 )

  Here’s an example of misogyny hurting men — because the ultimate put-down of a man is to equate him to a woman. If we fight [for] the idea that being a woman is not something to be sneered at, we… Read More ›

• Bloody hell

  By tigtog on 2008-04-02 • ( 4 )

  FIRST PRIZE! The first time I have ever won any prize in a school raffle. Of course it was an Easter fundraiser that didn’t announce the winner until a week after Easter. That’s somehow totally apt.

• And now for another* edition of Name That Tom Lehrer Song

  By tigtog on 2008-04-02 • ( 23 )

  Sunday afternoon in Sydney Park. *OK, strictly speaking there has never been a previous edition of NTTLS. P.S. If you know it please just provide the initials to prolong the suspense for those who don’t.

• Shameful confession: I haven’t kept up with xkcd lately

  By tigtog on 2008-04-01 • ( 3 )

  And so failed to alert the masses to a zombie Feynman sighting.

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