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• Wednesday Wow: A Heart Among Giant Desire

  By tigtog on 2007-09-19 • ( 6 )

  Found in my regular trawl through the WOW! flickr image pool.

  I grew up as a bushwalker (hiker/rambler for you foreign types). I’ve never been to somewhere with trees quite like this, but it brings back fond memories of walks through quiet, wild spaces.

• The UN Declaration.

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-18 • ( 3 )

  As you probably know the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People passed by an overwhelming majority. 143 countries voted in support, 11 abstained (Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Samoa, Ukraine), and 4 voted… Read More ›

• Might as well go for the big three of humourless feminism

  By tigtog on 2007-09-18 • ( 26 )

  Seeing as the two previous posts are Lauredhel’s on rape culture and mine on prostitution, I thought I’d add a link to this post that I had been saving up for later in the week: Trouble in Pornoland. Written by… Read More ›

• Ignoring imprisonment and institutionalisation

  By tigtog on 2007-09-18 • ( 4 )

  As long as it’s only women in the sex industry being exploited and abused, that is. There’s two excellent posts around on legalised prostitution at the moment, examining the way that legalisation seems to have offered an extra layer of… Read More ›

• Drowning in the static

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-18 • ( 5 )

  I haven’t written anything about rape culture for a while now. Sometimes I’m just not sure what to say. Half the population experiences it directly, and the other half often seems to me to be divided into those who actively… Read More ›

• “Let us remember that we are not our own.”

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-17 • ( 4 )

  And now, the last of the “Dress and Its Relation to Health” chapter from the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, 1905. The previous parts of this chapter are here, here, and here. In which we consider women’s pro-corset angst and… Read More ›

• Spring in my garden

  By tigtog on 2007-09-17

  The blossom feeding parrot is a lorikeet. The tree is a Pohutukawa.

• EvoPysch and “natural” attraction.

  By tigtog on 2007-09-17 • ( 11 )

  I’ve been stewing up an FAQ for FF101 for a while, and it hasn’t come together as well as I’d like. I want to take on EvPsych, basically, and look at some of the crap on offer that claims that… Read More ›

• Liberté, Fraternité, Rosé

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-15 • ( 9 )

  The Chronicle Herald reports that a pair of Canadian lads organised a demonstration of solidarity with a boy who was being tormented by bullies – for wearing pink. A gang of arsehats had been harassing the younger pink-wearing boy. They… Read More ›

• Weekend dose of art

  By lauredhel on 2007-09-15 • ( 2 )

  The lad’s been enjoying a couple of different art media this weekend. He’s continuing his single-minded effort to catalogue the natural world. “Flower” Metallic textas on Reflex photocopying paper “Tiger” Acrylic paint on butchers paper

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