today in politics:

state -- the 'foetal personhood' bill passed through the lower house.

federal -- carbon tax repeal legislation passed through the lower house.

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this was linked on tumblr and i think it is pretty amazing. watch it with (english) subtitles on vimeo or with all the toxic crap on youtube. it is, of course, USian, but much of the message is universal. (however, it is not inclusive of trans* people, which is a major flaw.)

possibly my favourite part: My pursuit of orgasm is neither unnatural ( Read more... )

what happened to jill meagher was horrible and something that should never, ever happen to anyone. and i am so sorry for her friends and family. not only have they lost someone they love, but they have to live with knowing that her death was violent and that she suffered and there's nothing they can do about it.

but this thing where 'thousands ( Read more... )

A while ago I did the 30 days of asexuality meme and there was a question about asexual pride that I didn't really understand. To be honest I've never really understood the idea of 'pride' in the context of a minority. And then recently I had one of those lightbulb moments and I finally got itI finally understand that pride in this context is the ( Read more... )

1. now that i have ended my subscription to new scientist magazine, i needed something to fill the void. because i am impressionable, i read an article in lapham's quarterly and paid for a year's subscription (it's cheaper than new scientist and there are only 4 issues; i'm also hoping there is less fat shaming).

2. should i buy this polka dot ( Read more... )

a reworking of lady gaga's bad romance video: bad romance: women's suffrage. i'm not a lady gaga fan and i've never seen the original video, but this gave me chills. the full lyrics and a description of the video and its history are available at the link. it you have a spare five minutes (and eight seconds), i definitely recommend this ( Read more... )

dear seroquel,

yeah, you need to stop that now, okay?

love,
tree

so apparently the oscars happened? i did not know this until twitter told me. i am very happy that shaun tan won for the lost thing.

more interesting to me is a post at sociological images (which i sometimes loathe, but can't stop reading) about the academy awards. it features ( Read more... )

this came up on my google alerts today (yes, i google stalk gillian anderson), and i had one of those "oh, please, no" moments.

efforts to raise awareness of and raise funds for research into prostate cancer are wonderful. i donate to movember every year ( Read more... )

a few months ago i was in woolworths buying, among other things, chocolate for mrO, when a man in the queue behind me said to me, "a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips." and i wanted to turn around to him and say, "thank you, so much, for that cliched and completely unnecessary reminder that, as a woman, my body is, indeed, public property ( Read more... )

one night i was coming home from uni. it was after 10. a man who, when he had gotten on the bus, had made very deliberate eye contact with me and sat directly behind me, got off after me. he then proceeded to walk behind me as i crossed two streets and walked down the dark side-street to take me home ( Read more... )