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• Dirty tricks department

  By tigtog on 2007-11-09 • ( 1 )

  What does this headline, as seen in a screengrab from today’s Daily Telegraph online, imply to you? See larger image here. The bit about “election rival ‘gay’” would be more accurately summed up as “independent candidate you’ve never heard of… Read More ›

• Friday Funnies

  By tigtog on 2007-11-09 • ( 3 )

  Via For Battle!, Lego animations of Eddie Izzard routines on YouTube from Thorn2200. DV prefers the Death Star Canteen, but I can’t go past Cake or Death. And via Club Troppo, Nick Gruen has discovered that “the poet laureate of… Read More ›

• Feminism Friday: Humour as a tool for shaming and silencing

  By tigtog on 2007-11-09 • ( 3 )

  Last week’s Feminism Friday post was on why Rape Jokes Just Aren’t Funny, based on a series from Melissa McEwan of Shakesville, and Bernice made a telling comment. Humour – the final frontier of colonialisation. You really now you’ve co-opted… Read More ›

• Chestpuffing Pillock of the Week Prize

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-08 • ( 6 )

  The Curvature has a very special commenter this week, going by the name of Hugh. Hugh muscled his way into “Rape Article Offensive-Off”, a post railing against the language of rape in the media. Cara’s particular targets were the report… Read More ›

• Woman-blaming gymnastics by Janet Hall

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-08 • ( 8 )

  “Dr Janet Hall” bills herself as an INFOTAINER. Bedwetting, sex therapy, smoking cessation, public speaking, business confidence, computer coaching, tantrums, eating disorders, social commentary, she does it all. You can read her newsletters here. Check out “October 2007 – Why… Read More ›

• You know that you’re Australian when

  By tigtog on 2007-11-08 • ( 9 )

  …you’re so excited by raindrops running down your car windows that you take a photo.

• Cultural fusion, Yolngu style

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-08 • ( 1 )

  Hot on the heels of the Indian condom dancers: via Langguj Gel: Yolngu group “The Chooky Dancers” interpreting Zorba the Greek. Coffee & cats warning.

• Rwandan rape victim photo wins prize

  By tigtog on 2007-11-07

  That’s the headline from Reuters, and its starkness is almost compulsory in light of the story behind the portrait. The woman below, Joseline Ingabire, is embracing her second daughter Leah, conceived after months of repeated rapes, while her first daughter… Read More ›

• Tracking The Intervention: Discarding and devaluing Aboriginal work

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-07 • ( 7 )

  Jangari’s “Four Corners on the Intervention” pulls out a few key points from last night’s Tracking The Intervention show. You can watch the show for yourself here at the ABC. Jangari details the ways in which Aboriginal communities are being… Read More ›

• Wednesday Woo from the spam queue: at least sie’s honest

  By tigtog on 2007-11-07 • ( 1 )

  This comment, thankfully caught by the spaminator over at Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog, went on for 22(!) pagedowns, and kept on repeating this paragraph: I know this sucks, for this is a complex topic, but these are tools they… Read More ›

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