First Intersex Mayor for Melbourne
Melbourne has Australia’s first openly intersex Mayor following the election of long time queer community supporter and advocate Councillor Tony Briffa to the top position at the City of Hobsons Bay at the end of November.
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...read moreDay of Remembrance.
This is late, but important. As many of you probably know, yesterday was the 22nd anniversary of the Montreal Polytechnique Massacre – during which a man named Marc Lepine killed 14 women because he was “fighting feminism”. Yesterday, we remembered : Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student [...]
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...read moreA message to Yashar Ali from a woman: I’d already figured that out, actually, but the affirmation is appreciated
Ladies, for all those times you’ve sat through an argument thinking, “Wow, there’s something wrong with me” instead of, “Wow, what an asshole,” you have official confirmation: Those accusations that you’re just overreacting aren’t real. There’s even a term for it that you’ve never heard before! You’re so sensitive. You’re so emotional. You’re defensive. You’re [...]
...read moreWho had November 8, 2011, in the office pool?
This is why we can’t have nice things. Michelle Duggar and her husband Jim Bob are expecting their 20th child, the couple revealed exclusively to TODAY. “We are so excited,” Michelle Duggar told TODAY Moms before the broadcast. Now three and a half months pregnant, the mom of 19 says she was actually surprised to [...]
...read morelinks for 11-09-2011
College midterms have finally released me from their clutches, so here is a long overdue link round-up ! Here is a mishmash of articles published over the last week you should read. A review of a book by feminist Phyllis Chesler on how MRAs are eking into the family court system and changing the game [...]
...read moreCongratulations, Mississippi. You’re up…. rest of the country.
More than 55 percent of Mississippi voters agreed that no, in fact, zygotes are zygotes and women are women, and women get to make choices about women’s lives and health. Such that they were already allowed to, anyway. Raise a glass to Mississippi,* and cross your fingers that today’s defeat can build momentum toward the [...]
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