Fertility, Gender, Sterilisation, Womanhood
I chose to get sterilised for many reasons, but one of them was the overarching association between fertility and femaleness that runs like a dark bloody thread throughout our society, no matter how...
View ArticleLet Us Colonise Your Wombs: Surrogacy In India
Two years ago, Mother Jones had a great feature on surrogacy in India. It didn’t receive a whole lot of traffic at the time but it’s come back up into the public eye, because this is an issue that has...
View ArticleThis is a post about Bunheads. Deal with it.
People people people, can we talk about Bunheads on ABC? Because holy moly, I have been on pins and needles all week waiting for tonight’s episode. I have been wanting to watch it since about halfway...
View ArticleThe Zimmermans, Perjury, and The Aid of White Supremacy
From this morning’s Los Angeles Times: “Oh, man, that feels good,” he told his wife, “… that there are people in America that care.” “Yeah they do,” she answered. So many tried to log onto his website...
View ArticleThis may be the most patronising attempt to get girls involved in science ever
So, the European Commission has just started a campaign to get girls interested in careers in the sciences: Science: It’s a Girl Thing! I found out about this on Twitter on Friday morning after the...
View ArticleWe cannot have it all because we no longer have dreams
This has been the week of backlash against feminism. In fairness, it is always backlash week against feminism but Anne-Marie Slaughter’s piece at The Atlantic, Why women still can’t have it all, has...
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