Suggested reading of the day

Kira Cochrane in the Guardian, a must read. Hat tip Blue Milk.
Lets start liking ourselves and other women.

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Carni folks

Head over to Hoyden About Town to read the Inaugural Down Under Feminists Carnival. I’m there along with a whole lot of really good other reads.

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Politics and me

Since the Hand Mirror started up in March (hat tip Art & My Life) I’ve been slowly (and happily) pulled into online politics. It’s not that I wasn’t political before, on the contrary, I have a Women’s Studies degree (among other qualifications) it’s just that I seem to have missed emerging political sites online. Deborah’s [...]

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Bitch, Bust and Wanderlust

It’s the school holidays so my posts my be erratic over the next two weeks.

Okay, disclaimer over. We had a day in the big smoke yesterday. Oh the joys of escalators and lifts for my poor deprived children! We started off at the Public Library, where I finally got an “out of towner” card. I [...]

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Writers & Readers Week Digested

All that remains: discarded ticket stubs; notes and new books to be digested over a cuppa.
I’ve put down some notes about the sessions I attended here.
For a wee potted summary - re-occurring themes across events:

Creating from the unconscious, on the edge of sense and non-sense, intuitive but [...]

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