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• So, is it OK?

  By tigtog on 2007-07-16 • ( 38 )

  crossposted at Feministe Jessica, Amanda, Twisty and Violet Socks (and Melissa too!)have all written about this article: Is it OK to Demand Anal Sex?. The picture accompanying the article is odiously twee and threatening simultaneously, and as virtually every respondent… Read More ›

• Notes for those reading via RSS

  By tigtog on 2007-07-16 • ( 2 )

  Hi, I’m doing some updating of old posts today, mainly shifting images which are chewing up my bandwidth to other image hosting services. So if you see an old post turn up in your feed-reader, it’s only because I’m updating… Read More ›

• What do disabled people, fat people, and indigenous languages have in common? They’re not disposable.

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-16 • ( 3 )

  Read ‘Ems for today: Sunday Telegraph: Quadriplegic left on train Mark McCauley, a man with quadriplegia, was abandoned on a New South Wales CityRail train for four hours when the train lost power. The ambulatory passengers were all evacuated one… Read More ›

• Review: Exit The King

  By tigtog on 2007-07-15 • ( 6 )

  I was fortunate enough to step into a seat for the sold-out season of this play when my Belvoir St Theatre-subscribing friend C’s friend C was too ill to make it. How lucky was I? Geoffrey Rush on stage in… Read More ›

• “Perhaps the simplest way to begin is to plunge a knife into the male urethra”

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-15 • ( 11 )

  “Anatomy is one of the key sites for the production and maintenance of sex and gender as embodied dualities, as these excerpts imply. It offers an institutionalized discourse rife with vivid representations which claim the body for medicine and then… Read More ›

• Sigh

  By tigtog on 2007-07-15 • ( 5 )

  (Now crossposted at Feministe – I’m guest-blogging there this week. Thanks, Jill!) 10 points to Indian journalist Saira Kurup for debunking the myth of bra-burning feminists as part of a column about the history of the bra. -100 points for… Read More ›

• Quicklink: fundraising drive against female genital cutting

  By tigtog on 2007-07-14 • ( 1 )

  Missed this while I was away, and some of you may have already seen the post linked at Alas, A Blog!, but the post is still open: Kim at Larvatus Prodeo is on a comments drive to raise money for… Read More ›

• Picture worth a thousand words of the day, and rally for Aboriginal justice

  By tigtog on 2007-07-14 • ( 1 )

  NAACP GOP Presidential Forum, originally uploaded by by JillNic83 The picture is via Jill of Feministe, and her post title is a cracker: But Abraham Lincoln was a Republican! That’s good enough, right? — There are rallies around Australia today… Read More ›

• Some of these things are not like the other ones: a quiz

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-13 • ( 12 )

  Six of these sentences appeared in the Australian mainstream media this week. Eight didn’t; they have been doctored by me. Can you tell which is which? Click each number for the original story. 1. Three young white people, one of… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Pippi Longstocking

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-13 • ( 8 )

  [image credit: kiddie matinee] I loved Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking as a kid, and I’m just rediscovering her now at bedtime read-aloud with my four-year-old. Pippi is a quintessential hoyden, the obvious choice for my first Friday Hoyden piece. As… Read More ›

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