Category Archives: consumers
Too good to pass by
Head over to The Angry Black Woman to read a huge link fest on reproductive justice.
Wow. Just wow.
Further wowing to be had from Helen Razer who offered us some great tips on Vajazzling in time for International Women’s Day. Oh and a slamming for some playwright or other, whose work I once enjoyed. Onya, Helen.
More Henci Goer writing
I’m in danger of becoming a groupie. I was already wildly grateful for her work but after a morning of reading about pole dancing being a sport, how Australia lacks women in parliament, and how women aren’t too fussed by the unspeakable misogyny of Tony Abbott (and neither are men), it was such a relief [...]
Links in the chain
What are you reading and writing? Here’s a few of the things I’ve found to be good reads lately.
Breastfeeding children and women a “low priority” – Western Australian parliament
Remember the protests in Perth last year about Premier Barnett’s party failing to bring WA into line with the rest of Australia with laws protecting breastfeeding families [...]
Doctors to be in charge of midwives, homebirthing and of course, women
Today there were yet more rallies across Australia to draw attention to the immoral legislation currently before Parliament which seeks to remove women’s human rights and criminalise independent midwifery.
Maternity Coalition have put together a document which explains clearly the changes to the legislation and what they mean. My rage is hard to put into words [...]
Who homebirths? A new series on homebirth.
Who homebirths?
Welcome to a new series of entries. A series of activism, humour, love and community. This is a series for those who have birthed at home, those who would like to, those who support homebirthing women and anyone with a love of family and community. It is a safe place for women who birth [...]
The Great VBAC Rort
VBAC is an endangered species.
This is not really surprising since vaginal births of all kinds are endangered and it only makes sense that having created a birthing monster of cuts and scars, Dr Frankenstein would be unwilling to let the monster go use it’s body in some way that silly old evolution intended.
But surely, I [...]
Some beautiful birth images and lovely homebirth families!
~ we love homebirth ~
How will you birth after July 2010?
Homebirth Awareness Year 2008
Links in the chain
Some blog deliciousness to get us all thinking more about the current draft legislation to outlaw homebirth midwifery in Australia.
http://allthatsazz.blogspot.com/2009/06/important-message-from-your-security.html
Warning warning feminist yumour ahead!
Important message from your Security Minister
Homebirthers may try to convince you that our actions are infringing on their human rights. This is an outrageous accusation given that half of all humans are [...]
Holding activism lightly in the face of violence.
Holding activism lightly in the face of violence.
Australian women face one of the greatest struggles for basic human rights they’ve ever faced.We have the vote, we have some semblance (lipservice) to equal pay, we can mostly put our children in childcare, rape makes it into the newspaper (insert mass disclaimers, but it IS there!), [...]
Why be an autonomous consumer of the healthcare system?
In recent years as midwife-assisted homebirth has become more topical in the mainstream press, so too freebirth* or family birth, has also become more widely known. Our culture of control over women means that the shock value of women birthing autonomously is on a par with those women who chained themselves to parliament houses [...]
Recent Comments