Category Archives: feminism
The revolution will not be televised* but it might be tweeted!
The Trust Birth conference is being tweeted so it’s like little live jewel bursts of glorious information coming out during the sessions! If you twitter, join in and retweet some beautiful birthing wisdom as it happens!
* And it definitely won’t be on Facebook if it involves breastfeeding.…
Legal Regulation of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Via the ever marvellous Feminist Law Professors. As personhood of the foetus is foisted on Australian women via the backdoor of homebirth legislation, we should be paying attention to this.
Legal Regulation of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Courtney G. Joslin
University of California, Davis – School of Law
The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion, University of Chicago Press, 2009
UC Davis Legal [...]
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 [...]
Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is a boringly normal human activity.
I came across this marvellous group and thought I’d share in case you haven’t seen them. Love their work! Check them out at their link. Such lovely, normal images of normal human stuff!
Here we present the first page of photos banned from the social utility Facebook, [...]
Links in the chain. What’s being written and read in your world?
Please share what you’re reading and writing, I love to have new material for eager readers and learn from all the many groovy blogs out there on the interwebz.
Ilithyia Inspired brings us news of the latest piece of obstetric bullshit to hit the airwaves.
iBirth? iPhone As The Latest Obstetric Intervention
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System (Houston, Texas) [...]
If it involves women, it’s a feminist issue. Right? *possible triggers – rape mentioned*
Well it depends, apparently.
If it’s related to abortion and contraception, women in developing nations, refuges, domestic violence, rape (only certain kinds), equity, disabilities, pron, reproductive technologies (only certain kinds) refugees, perceived minorities (only certain kinds), misogyny, footballers, maternity leave, childcare, sole parents, equal party political representation, indigenous women, depictions of women in the media, fashion, [...]
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 [...]
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.