[image source: Turing Foundation] News.com.au: Aboriginal children ‘injected with leprosy’ Allegations have arisen that Aboriginal children from the Stolen Generation may have been infected with leprosy or injected with experimental medication while institutionalised. The issue was raised during a Senate… Read More ›
race & racism
Friday Hoyden: Susan Butcher
This Friday Hoyden is a guest post from huckle. Huckle is a feminist who is slowly turning from resentfully compliant to cheerfully grumpy as she gets older. She is a single mum who works full time. She grows organic vegies,… Read More ›
WOC ‘Engage best through negative discourse’: Seal Press
You know how Seal Press aren’t at all racist? And how these book covers[1] are just all mass-market-fun and goofball and ironic and hilarious and why must you always be so serious and critique-y and stuff anyway? Well. The amazing… Read More ›
Prostitution: regulation, exploitation and death
prostitution is literally killing women, by murder more than any other cause, and a whole heap of people simply don’t care.
No other industry with a comparable mortality rate is unregulated by the state, and in none of those industries would the workers be allowed to sign away their basic health and safety guarantees in order for more pay. Employers who try to coerce miners or firefighters to go into work without adequate safety measures are quite rightly prosecuted and socially condemned, yet the workplace death rate of those professions combined does not match just the homicide rate amongst prostitutes, let alone the death rate once drug overdoses are taken into account.
“Death twice as likely by caesarean”?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: No discussion of reproductive justice is complete without attention to birthing and birthing care. A blithe, shallow, naive focus on “reproductive choice” is not enough. We don’t have free choice in… Read More ›
Fetal presentations: an economist’s guide
Image Source: Dorland’s Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. © 2007 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. Because at least one doesn’t seem prepared to acknowledge that foetal presentation makes any difference to birthing outcomes. Lauredhel has been astonishingly civil… Read More ›
The Dog Candy doesn’t carry a warning.
The website trumpets: » 1964 online players at the present time and 206 851 registered Bimbos! Miss Bimbo is a webgame aimed at girls as young as seven years old (grade 2). With a pricey-text-message business model and a pink-slathered… Read More ›
Condolences to Twisty
My condolences to Twisty on the death of her father. You really must read her magnificent post on her visit to the funeral home. Excerpts: Well, be she spinster aunt or no, I dare anybody to keep a straight face… Read More ›
“Through heredity great things might be accomplished for the human race – as great things as have been achieved in the improvement of horses and cattle, fruits and flowers.”
Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series! The original post is here. Today, chapter II, Making Marriage A Success. For Rebekkka. ~~~ Marriage is dual life; and life, we rightly say, is what we make it. How can this double… Read More ›
If the garbo truck didn’t wake me up before sparrows ack emma every week…
leading me to almost always suddenly remember “arrgh! the prawn heads!” and fang it out to the bin before the garbos get to my driveway, then I don’t think my neighbour’s bins would hardly ever get emptied. I race out,… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 