Author Archives
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Quick Hit: Project Unbreakable [Trigger Warning]
This post and the link it takes you to comes with a big trigger warning for use of the words of sexual attackers.
Late last year, Grace Brown started an art project called Project Unbreakable. It involves photographing men and women holding posters which contain something that their attacker/s said to them immediately before, during, or after their attack.
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Housing and Dreaming Community
“So many of our problems would be alleviated if we had 3 or 4 exceptional friends living within a 2 minute radius.” Alain de Botton (h/t shonias/Ariane). Over the past little while, I’ve been thinking about alternative housing styles. It’s… Read More ›
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Quick Hit: The Hidden World of Girls
A special radio show (or is it just a podcast now?) With Tina Fey! And the Kitchen Sisters! And stories about alien girls from Venus, the girl who shot a buck , the first women race-car drivers in Ramallah, Traveller… Read More ›
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Neoliberal welfare and gender inequality
I suppose that by now, everyone in Australia has probably come across some version of the latest iteration of the hatin’-on-teen-mums discourse, which comes up with frightening regularity. This version of course, is part of the ‘tough love’ strategy being… Read More ›
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Quick Hit: Today in ‘equality’
Her refusal to cheer for him in basketball games led to her being thrown off the team, and she then sought to sue her school (specifically for infringing her freedom of speech).
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Tackling Misogyny: Procedures or Social Sanctions?
There are lots of reasons that formal mechanisms for dealing with sexual harassment don’t work for lots of people. So we have the suggestion of informal ‘shunning’…
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Sexting and Slut-Shaming
Announcing the release of this particular video, he commented “The launch of this new video comes on White Balloon Day – a time to break the silence on child sexual assault and raise awareness that child safety is everyone’s responsibility.”
Everyone’s responsibility. Everyone’s. Shall we take a quick peek at the video in question?
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‘Avatar’ Indignation Thread
By popular request (and my need for a place to vent, still), this is the thread in which to point out plot holes, the rampant racism, (hetero)sexism and ableism, and general all-round problems with James Cameron’s new ‘epic’, Avatar. Also… Read More ›
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Sydney Hoydenizens Do Karaoke!
So, the details for the much-anticipated karaoke evening, filled to the brim with Hoydenizen renditions of the Hottest 100 Women [link to http://hottest100women.blogspot.com/%5D as well as some trashy favourites, I don’t doubt, are below:
