Recent Posts - page 48

  • Otterday! And Open Thread

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    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

  • Media Circus: Shock! Horror! The ABC pays people!

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    Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

    @PrestonTowers lays out the latest GG attempt to stoke up animus against the ABC on AusOpinion.

    What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

  • Kelly Briggs on the Race Conversation We Need to Have

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    Headshot of Kelly Briggs.

    Gomeroi author, blogger and activist Kelly Briggs recently wrote in the Guardian’s Comment is Free of the pressing need for white feminists in Australia to talk seriously about race.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread

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    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

  • Friday Hoyden: Sally Potter

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    Headshot of Sally Potter, high collar, hair up

    Director Sally Potter is one of the great original voices in film.

  • Signal Boost – Climate Day of Action

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    A large network of events is planned for this coming Sunday 17 November to send a message that Australians want action to combat climate change.

  • Obligatory Joss Whedon Feminist Speech Post

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    Whedon, then, delivers a speech on the term “feminist” without any reference to feminist history, without any apparent awareness of feminist theory, and without even any demonstrated knowledge of the most important objections or conflicts around the term “feminist,” the use of which he is purportedly discussing.

  • The ducks know we’re in here

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    two australian bush ducks peering through a screen door

    … they also know there’s more muesli in the box. The other animals we’ve seen around our country retreat have been a lot less pushy.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread

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    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

  • The 66th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

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    In blue on a white background, the DUFC logo: in a square with rounded corners, there is the female/feminine symbol; with the Southern Cross inside, above which it says 'Down Under' and below 'Feminists Carnival'.

    All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!