perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2008
I haven’t been much in the mood for blogging in the last few days - the endless running around with job applications, trials, and all that such that comes with unemployment (and wondering where in the bejesus the money to pay the next fortnight’s rent is going to come from) has been knocking out of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2008
There’s a great ScienceDaily article going around about the work of Dr Simona Giordano, an English ethicist who is taking up the cause of trans youth who are being denied treatment because of arbitrary gatekeeper guidelines, and suffering lasting physical and psychological damage as a result.
Giordano has gone on the attack against the English clinics […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2008
God, some people are entitled assholes. Via Ren and Kim, meet Steve Gower, harasser of Atlanta sex workers, transphobe, and general repulsive creep.
In short, Gower is a middle-aged man who gets his jollies by going around his Atlanta neighbourhood with a video camera, harassing sex workers - and especially transgendered sex workers - in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2008
Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade - and as such, Blog for Choice Day. This year’s theme is “why it’s important to vote pro-choice, but rather than join in on the many excellent posts about the worsening situation in the States, I’m going to write […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2008
I’ve just heard a bit of surprising news: Attorney-General Corbell has said he’s going to address the Civic Square rally in support of the ACT Civil Partnerships Bill on February 2. I was fully expecting that we’d get a “we’d like to, but no” from anyone involved with the Labor Party.
I’ve been quite pessimistic about […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2008
The Age is reporting that Kim Beazley is being tipped as the next Governor-General, with Michael Jeffery due to retire in a few months. What the? We’ve had two atrocious conservative Governor-Generals in a row with former archbishop Peter Hollingworth and then former soldier Jeffery, so you’d think Labor would try and put up a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2008
Trans blogger and fellow student Zoe Brain left a comment on my blog which touched on something I’ve been thinking about for a while: the future of the trans movement in Australia, and our relationship to the rest of the LGBT movement.
We’ve had some very important victories in the few years I’ve been out, but […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2008
From today’s Age comes the latest example of male members of the judiciary who can simply not be trusted to hear sexual assault cases:
Victorian County Court Judge Michael Kelly was accused of making insensitive comments during a case against Dean Woodbridge, whom he sentenced last December to two years and nine months’ jail, wholly suspended […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 15th, 2008
A couple of months ago, I applied to volunteer at the National Folk Festival, and hadn’t heard from them, so I figured they’d lost my application again this year (they did it a couple of years ago) and forgot about it. I remembered tonight, however, that I hadn’t actually checked my mail since I moved […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2008
via Drakyn:
There’s some great trans-related spoken word monologues up on YouTube at the moment from the National Queer Arts Festival’s TransForming Community project. I’d already seen Julia Serano’s, which is brilliant - she’s just on fire there - but there’s others there from lesser known folks which are brilliant. I could only watch a couple […]