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• Soundbite shortcomings in a nutshell

  By tigtog on 2007-06-25 • ( 4 )

  Because this blog discusses sexuality, sexual violence, homosexuality and gendered insults etc with the intent to inform, a ratings system based on words alone gets us lumped in with sites that are nothing but sexual titillation and/or gender vilification. Mingle2… Read More ›

• Sexual assault medicine in crisis in regional NSW

  By tigtog on 2007-06-24 • ( 1 )

  Fancy driving a round trip of 700km for a forensic medical examination after being raped? That’s what rape victims in central NSW are facing due to NSW Health’s refusal to pay the standard call-out rate for medical practitioners who are… Read More ›

• Blood and guilt: Federal jackbootery roundup.

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-23 • ( 6 )

  Further to tigtog’s post Howard’s Wedge, several blog posts that you may not have stumbled across on the usual round of Ozblogistan trackbacks and read ’ems. The fabulous brownfemipower cuts through all the bullshit in her post “abusing into goodness”:… Read More ›

• Simple changes could end discrimination for thousands of Australian couples

  By tigtog on 2007-06-23

  This press release from the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), dated 21 June 2007, has largely gone off the media radar due to Howard’s Indigenous Emergency plan hogging all the limelight: Changing the definitions describing de facto… Read More ›

• Feminism Friday: Reclamation: thoughts from a fat hairy uppity angry gimp bitch

  By lauredhel on 2007-06-23 • ( 38 )

  This post started with me suggesting a FAQ on reclamation for the “Finally, a Feminism 101 Blog” blog: “But there’s a whole feminist magazine called Bitch and a book called The Ethical Slut, so why can’t I call you a… Read More ›

• For my librarian friends

  By tigtog on 2007-06-22

  Even I think this is uncalled for. Image Credit: xkcd.com

• Cheers and jeers: rape edition

  By tigtog on 2007-06-22 • ( 2 )

  Cheers for Thailand and Jeers for Jerry Seinfeld.

• Sometimes, sarcasm is the only possible response

  By tigtog on 2007-06-22 • ( 2 )

  This news headline – Iraq now ranked second among world’s failed states – seems to have left many in the blogosphere lost for words. But as Amanda Marcotte points out, if we don’t talk it up, it can be spun… Read More ›

• Howard’s Wedge

  By tigtog on 2007-06-21 • ( 44 )

  Or, as Kim has named it, Tampa 2007. Prime Minister John Howard has announced a sweeping authoritarian plan of managing indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, with the stated purpose of combatting the horrifying rates of child sexual abuse amongst… Read More ›

• Solstice rose

  By tigtog on 2007-06-21 • ( 2 )

  Happy winter solstice, all!

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