You know, if the worst thing that’s happening in your life is that you caught a glimpse of someone else’s breastmilk in the work fridge last week, maybe you should thank your lucky stars and go do something useful in… Read More ›
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Poverty, “Risky Behaviour”, and the Virtuous Healthy-Sick-Person Interrogation
WA Today reports that poor people who have been seriously ill die sooner after hospital discharge than wealthy people do. No surprises there – we all know that poor people have poorer health outcomes across the board. The results of… Read More ›
A paean to “radical feminist” organisation the Girl Scouts of America
The threat: bone-chillingly radical feminist Girl Scouts. Mississippi-based Christian “news” service One News Now claims to offer up “news without the liberal bias”. It also offers up news without that dastardly word “gay”, as Jeff Fecke and Melissa have noted… Read More ›
Thomas Beatie gives birth to healthy baby daughter
Thomas Beatie, the pregnant man who had everyone chattering about his challenge to their notions of gender fixedness, has given birth to a healthy daughter. Thomas, a transman, decided to become pregnant by artificial insemination. His wife Nancy was unable… Read More ›
Two Unusual Tales
From the section of the paper actually called Unusual Tales. Court overturns father’s grounding of 12-year-old [link] “At her age, children test their limits and it’s up to their parents to set boundaries. “I started an appeal of the decision… Read More ›
The Government is coming for your Facebook
The Rudd government plans a “real world live pilot” of Senator Conroy’s opt-out ISP-based filtering, starting next month. Internode and Iinet have already spoken out against the plan. New Zealand filtering company “Watchdog” is drooling over the opportunity to milk… Read More ›
RU486 Import Restrictions in Australia: Reprise
I wrote about the Australia import restrictions on RU486 back in December, when this article by Mary Lander appeared in the Medical Journal of Australia: “The fight for a life-saving drug: a personal perspective”. RU486 is a progesterone antagonist –… Read More ›
For the record
This is a photo taken of me when I was 14. It was taken at the social nudist club to which my family belonged, in a quiet area of bushland, and I was nude. It was part of a photo-shoot… Read More ›
The Poison Dwarf scrapes the barrel: now a comedy act is a “sex storm”
He’s trying to manufacture a scandal over the fact that the ALP candidate for the upcoming by-election for the seat of Gippsland did, as part of his duties as a cultural festival organiser in the region last year, support and… Read More ›
The Henson photo scandal: so many knees jerking, so little real debate
I haven’t written about the matter here until now because I’ve had to sort out my feelings on this one: as someone who grew up in the social nudist movement I hate the way that nudity in any context has come to be automatically associated with pornography, and yet I see the necessity of ensuring that minors are not exploited for sexual imagery as well.
Hoyden About Town 