perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2008
I haven’t really said much about the primary battle in the US thusfar, but I’ve been pretty disappointed in the approach of some of the feminist “big bloggers” in the last few days, as demonstrated in this thread at Feministe.
All of this concerns Obama’s “periodically down” comment about Clinton. Was it sexist? Probably. A conscious […]
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 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 […]
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 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 13th, 2008
So, a piece of good news for a change. Autumn Sandeen is reporting that religious conservatives in California have failed to get the requisite number of signatures to force a referendum on the state’s new Student Civil Rights Act. As such, it is now in force in the state, although it faces a further legal […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2008
We’ve gotten to a point in Australia where we’re starting to fall behind even the United States in terms of giving recognition to gay and lesbian relationships. We’ve had zero progress on civil unions, and now we have the incoming Rudd government promising to introduce a national relationship register scheme that would in all probability, […]