perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31st, 2008
This morning, Deb Foskey, the sole Greens MLA in the ACT Legislative Assembly, went public with the surprise announcement that she would retire from politics at the October election after only one term.
I didn’t see this one coming at all. Foskey was always a bit of a strange choice to be preselected to replace the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2008
Lauredhel at Hoyden About Town has posted a call for submissions for the first Down Under Feminist Blog Carnival. I’m really happy to see this finally getting going. I’m really interested in seeing greater cooperation among feminist bloggers over here, and getting more networking happening on local issues when it’s needed, and I think this is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2008
It never bloody ends.
I’ve had nothing but trouble from Centrelink for this entire year.
It begun when I attempted to get back onto student benefits after my full-time job wound up at the end of last year, after I’d gone part-time for six months. I was told I couldn’t claim them, despite being an enrolled student, until […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2008
I’ve mentioned it before on this blog, but one of the things that’s thrown me off a little bit over the last few months is that I’ve suddenly started getting read by people as straight. Until about the end of last year, I’d been read as queer ever since I was old enough for people […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2008
There’s an interesting article on the front page of the Canberra Times this morning. I can’t get a link because their website is down, but it suggests that ACT Labor has been conducting polling about the relative popularity of Deputy Chief Minister Katy Gallagher should she ascend to the Chief Ministership in the event of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2008
There’s a not-half-bad post up at Reweaving at the moment expressing frustration (from a radical feminist perspective) at the vast amounts of transphobia in the radical feminist community, and specifically with regard to trans-exclusive women’s spaces. It’s worth a read, and there’s a good comments thread as well.
However, there’s a couple of things that get […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 14th, 2008
Just when one thought Western Australian state politics couldn’t get any weirder.
After a couple of weeks in which Opposition Leader Troy Buswell has been widely derided and mocked for sexually harassing a staffer by crawling around on the floor, making sexual noises, and sniffing her chair, and somehow managed to prevent a leadership spill on […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
It’s been a bad week for LGBT stuff, but I’ve just gotten an email that suggests that the Rudd government might be starting to move on trans issues.
A transwoman who’d stayed married to her former partner but had had SAS has just been notified by Centrelink that the guidelines have changed and they are now […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
I’ve been getting fed up with university this semester. I’ve really gotten to the point where I don’t want to be there at all, and so I’m having huge trouble motivating myself to do anything uni-related when I’ve always got something more interesting to do.
I’ve taken some frustrating courses in my time, but this semester […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2008
via The Bilerico Project:
The American Psychiatric Association has named the members of it’s working group to reassess the inclusion of Gender Identity Disorder in the forthcoming new edition of the DSM, the DSM-V. It could almost not possibly be worse. The list reads like a who’s-who of obsessed creeps who’ve made a career out of […]