perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2008
These are bad days.
Four trans and gender variant people - Sanesha Stewart, Lawrence King, Cameron McWilliams and Simmie Williams - are dead in less than fifteen days, two of them startlingly young. Four lives cut short so much before their time because they dared to exist. Four more names added to the already long rolls […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2008
I don’t generally read Australia’s left liberal big blog, Larvatus Prodeo, but I was curious about one of the posts linked in today’s Missing Link - and boy, what a doozy. This effort from Paul Norton reads like a combination of garden variety misogyny, existentialism and some sort of acid trip.
Norton sets out to ponder […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 13th, 2008
Sanesha Stewart, a 25-year old transwoman of colour from the Bronx, was murdered on Saturday. The story is one that we’ve heard so many fucking times before: man digs woman, man discovers woman has penis, man freaks out and kills woman.
Belledame puts it well:
Because there’s nothing worse than finding out you are sexually attracted to, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2008
At 9am tomorrow, Kevin Rudd will stand in parliament and deliver a formal apology to the Stolen Generations. White liberals all over the country will, I’m sure, celebrate and feel proud that “reconciliation” has finally happened. Board rooms and offices will watch the event on their big screen televisions. But, while this is a notable […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2008
It seems it just isn’t the week for scumbag police officers who think they can get off on abusing women.
Senior Constable David Mits, an officer based out of Knox in Melbourne, plead guilty to demanding a bribe in the County Court of Victoria this morning. He tried to demand sex from a woman he had […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2008
This afternoon, the only non-retiring member of the Liberal caucus in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, former Shadow-Attorney General Sue Walker, announced that she would quit the Liberals and run as an independent in the forthcoming election.
The Liberals in Western Australia have perhaps been the only state opposition within striking distance of an incumbent Australian […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 7th, 2008
There’s been an unfortunate twist in the ongoing civil unions saga. Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has just come out and stated his specific opposition to the ceremonial components of the Civil Partnerships Bill, and reaffirmed his demand that the ACT institute a relationship registry instead. ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell has, in response, reaffirmed what we […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2008
There have now been two incidents of serious police abuse relating to transpeople break in the media in as many days, and in two different states. In Sydney, two police officers are now on trial after deliberately outing a transwoman who had come to them for assistance after being the victim of domestic violence to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2008
Today’s Civil Unions rally was more successful than we could have hoped.
ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell just stood in front of the television cameras and declared the absolute commitment of the ACT government to enacting civil unions with ceremonies in the face of federal pressure. He spoke at length about the government’s desire to see the […]