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• Blonde, bald, braided or baubled: hair as femininity object and transformative symbol

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-04 • ( 14 )

  [image credit: Weekly Wire.] Noodling around the net, I found that hair has recently been a lively topic at the Girl-Wonder forums. This post by Mississippienne is titled “When you get old, lop off all your hair”: “My mother is… Read More ›

• Whose real world?

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-04 • ( 16 )

  Posted by Helen.     Where I live, our kids have five weeks holidays from just before Christmas to the end of January. They have two weeks off in April, two in July, and two in September/October. I’ve run out… Read More ›

• Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-03

  We’ve been running a bit of a series on repulsive advertising featuring women’s bodies: * the Nando’s stripper-mummy-with-a-heart-of-gold: Been trying to find the words * Pornified racist slavery in the pursuit of fashion: Because “fun “n’ edgy” and “pornification of… Read More ›

• Girls in white gumboots and fat chicks in chainmail

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-03 • ( 13 )

  I’m fascinated by the Referrer section in website logs. I’m not sure why. Is it the voyeurism of a tiny glimpse into someone else’s web cruising habits, the sociology of wondering why people search for what they do, the laughs?… Read More ›

• NT Plan Read ’ems: “white man’s burden”, Howard’s poll plunge, and reactions from Pat Turner and Lt Gen Sanderson

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-03

  Here are your Northern Territory Aboriginal “emergency plan” read ’ems for today! I’ve included excerpts, but do read the whole articles for context and elaboration. Mark Lawrence: The white man’s burden: Howard’s attack on Aboriginal self-determination Excellent post on the… Read More ›

• Rearranging accessibility: more on invisible disability accommodations

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-03 • ( 11 )

  I wrote a post a while ago titled Stop and think: invisible access for invisible disabilities. It was a personal narrative of some of my experience with chronic fatigue syndrome. In it I mentioned a couple of accessibility problems that… Read More ›

• Schuss!

  By tigtog on 2007-07-02 • ( 2 )

  Just for anyone else who learned to ski at Perisher Ski School in the 70s, the snow this week is so good that Pepe has turned up to ski for the first time in 15 years, and Hermie was out… Read More ›

• Sunday Sunset Scent-blogging

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-01 • ( 4 )

  Some of you know that I’m a bit of a soapmaker[1] – so I’m fascinated by scents. Today I stumbled across gurl.com, and, fighting my way past the blinking shopping mall ads and the Nair infomercials, I spotted this “My… Read More ›

• Read ’ems: Young Feminists edition

  By lauredhel on 2007-07-01 • ( 4 )

  In today’s Read-‘Ems, I’m taking a break from Aboriginal issues, and focusing on young feminists. Enjoy. 1. On the YP4 (“Young People For”) blog, ojgreer asks “Am I A Feminist?”, and details her feminist awakening from beginning: As a young… Read More ›

• Are you in on the joke?

  By Guest Poster on 2007-06-30 • ( 4 )

  Guest post by blue milk (who knew there was so much to say on feminist motherhood?) where this is being cross-posted. Spare a thought for advertising executives. Imagine trying to write a TV advertisement for chicken? Actually wait it gets… Read More ›

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