Blogging for Choice
You know the first time I met the Lip gals was when I submitted an article to Lip on Pregnancy Counselling Australia – a misleading phone service run by Right to Life Australia. I wanted to let as many people know that should they ever need help, this was not the number to call. It’s [...]
Who wants to get married anyway…
Disgust is at least one word I’d use to describe the Howard Government’s latest homophobic quest. I wonder what would happen if he used the resources trying to stop gay people marrying overseas into…well anything that was useful really. And if Johnnie hadn’t turned me off the prospect of ever getting married, I have been [...]
The Pill and Heath Ledger Naked
A report has been released about the Pill that notes 1 in 4 women who use this method of birth control will have their libido adversely affected. Feministing.com brought up a few good points about the time it took for the medical community to acknowledge this side effect, and how this medication would have been [...]
naivety
Check out this article: http://smh.com.au/news/opinion/the-tills-are-alive/ 2006/01/06/1136387622246.html It’s about magazine editors paying millions of dollars for the stories and photos of the stars. Sometimes I am impressed at how naive I can be or, at least, really unaware of how the whole publicity/popularity/starmaker thing really works. I had contemplated certain things, such as: 1. Has Kirstie [...]
thinking, thinking
Well, working in the Office for Women and reading Germaine Greer has my mind going whir, whir, whir. Here’s what I think today: Feminism has really fucking changed the world. There’s so much we still have to do, but damnit, we’ve come a long way. All these arguments about abortion, contraception, IVF – its all [...]
Depressed about Abortion Reports
Well, well, We couldn’t get through the first week of the year without further debate on abortion. Research in New Zealand has found that in a study of about 1,200 young women, those who had an abortion were a third higher to have mental problems, such as depression, than their peers who continued with their [...]
Do Not Be Quiet #7
Greetings/Happy Holidays I was back at work today and the inevitable question came up: “What did you do on your holidays?” Well, you can imagine I didn’t have the same answer as most people as I finished my latest edition of DNBQ. Check it out: www.donotbequiet.com Geez work is a drag…. Erin
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