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• A piggiversary with Cardamom and Pepper
• Go see the 60th edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• The fantasy of women’s collective historical identity
• It’s almost the end of April…
• Anzac Day and religious rhetoric
• Go see the 59th edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• It’s almost the end of March…
• Go see the 58th edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• Book Review: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
• It’s almost the end of February…
• Go see the 57th edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• It’s almost the end of January…
• The Fifty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
• Marking four years
• Review: Sapphistries by Leila J. Rupp
• It’s almost the end of December…
• Go see the 55th edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• Forthcoming appearance: ACRAWSA’s Racialising Desire Conference
• It’s almost the end of November…
• My Transsexual Summer, and what goes into diverse representations
• Go see the 54th edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• It’s almost the end of October…
• Feminists of Faith: anjum
• Go see the 53rd edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• It’s almost the end of September…
• Go see the 52nd edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• It’s almost the end of August…
• Go check out the 51st Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• The reason I’m not writing at the moment
• Dreams
• On a personal note
• Queerness and deception
• It’s almost the end of July…
• Working towards the positive
• Linksplosion! July edition
• Which kinds of bodies are respected?
• Negating Nushu: Through Imposition
• Quite a lot of books
• Acknowledging difference without othering
• Negating Nushu: Nushu Users
• Down Under Feminists Carnival time again
• Negating Nushu: Through Governmental Means
• Specifying whiteness, undoing violence
• Negating Nushu: Through Journalism
• It’s almost the end of June…
• Refining the defining of womanhood
• Playing around with presentation
• Negating Nushu: Through Western Academic Narratives
• June news for the Down Under Feminists Carnival
• Negating Nushu: Introduction
• Feminists of Faith: Jay
• Laughing
• Toys I’ve knitted lately
• Horror and humanity, part two
• Horror and humanity, part one
• Hey, feminists who try to reclaim the term “feminazi”? Don’t.
• Feminists of Faith: Erin K. Bartuska
• Friendship, redux
• May Down Under Feminists Carnival News
• Breakfast with Cardamom and Pepper
• Assuming identities
• Homes and hearts
• Recent readings
• Linksplosion!: How we relate edition
• Seeking justice, seeking history
• On sexual harassment
• Feminists of Faith: Emily
• Representing Sara Baartman: in Politics
• Nourishment
• White people don’t have a monopoly on genetic variation
• Representing Sara Baartman: in Academia
• I am woman, hear me meta
• Double binds and opportunities
• Feminists of Faith: Kath of Fat Heffalump
• Representing Sara Baartman: in Racial Science
• The Amani Butterfly Project
• Go vote for me in the Best Australian Blogs 2012 Competition
• Representing Sara Baartman: on Show and in the Museum
• Growing Inequality and Quinoa in Bolivia
• Down Under Feminists are coming at you!
• Representing Sara Baartman: Introduction
• Recent knittings
• A thought towards more productive social justice conversations
• Good girls and bad girls
• Linksplosion!: Amazing black women edition
• Common sense and sensibility
• Feminists of Faith: Nahida
• It’s almost the end of March…
• Making noise
• Dipping into a Very Gender-Conscious 2012 in Australian Popular Culture
• Reworking classic fairytales and the many ways of enacting the feminine in feminist fiction
• High heels and hairy legs
• The direction of desire
• Guinea pigs: now available with accessories!
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Wishing for normal lives or satisfying ones
• Loss of weight or fellow feeling
• The Forty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
• Vulnerability
• Expanding the conversation on feminists of faith
• Music Monday: Various takes on love edition
• It’s almost the end of February…
• Never forget where you came from
• Unobscuring Marital Rape in Nepal
• Linksplosion!: Creative (writing) edition
• Two kinds of whiteness: reimagining white people in fantasy and science fiction
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Reimagining narratives that centre whiteness
• It’s Down Under Feminists Carnival time again!
• Reclaiming nurturing, creating, and the feminine
• A City of Villages
• ‘One still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed’
• Based on the colour of one’s skin
• Where DUFC armies clash by night
• A cause for celebration in casa de cavy…
• Emotional performance
• Linksplosion!: Writing that got to me edition
• Sexuality, queerness, and children’s knowledge about themselves
• My favourite place in Australia
• Personal space
• You’re never to blame for someone doing wrong to you
• “You shine a light on hidden parts”: the many layers of Garbage’s “Cherry Lips”
• What pieces of writing have been important in your life?
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Race and the Non-White Reader
• On being the first ones there
• A narrow band of relevance
• A property of the clan
• The annual January Sydney femblogger Coogee trip
• The end of Dressember!
• Marking three years
• The end of the 2011 reading list of enormity
• Dressember Days 26-28
• It’s almost the end of December…
• Dressember Days 22-25
• A morning with Cardie and Pepper
• Dressember Days 19-21
• Loving yourself, and the social value of putting yourself down
• Dressember Days 15-18
• The representational politics of hair
• Dressember Days 12-14
• Linksplosion! Inverting thinking edition
• Dressember Days 9-11
• Dressember Days 6-8
• The Humbling of a Pretty Girl
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Dressember Days 3-5
• Swept with DUFC alarms of struggle and flight
• Dressember
• Why I’m not an anthropologist
• On getting dressed
• It’s almost the end of November…
• Menstruating
• On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything
• Mapmaking for internal geographies
• That ever expanding blogroll
• You Have to Keep Remembering
• Music Monday: Deep and dreamy edition
• In whose favour are the rules of politeness made?
• Linksplosion!: Approaching sexuality (again) edition
• The stories we tell about sexuality
• And meta is here as on a darkling DUFC
• Race in “The Women Men Don’t See”
• An Open Letter to White People Who Like to Touch My Hair
• The lion and the parrot
• Who counts in talking about social justice?
• Race on children’s television: Lizzie McGuire and How to be Indie
• It’s almost the end of October…
• Adding some more books to the pile of enormity
• Locating difference
• Life is like a box of meta
• Identity, visibility, and the Internet
• Translating ourselves back to ourselves
• A list of things about me, part ten
• How White Writers Should Address Racism
• ‘A Motive More Human’: The Alice Mitchell Case, Part Five
• Broken spirits
• Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for DUFC
• ‘A Motive More Human’: The Alice Mitchell Case, Part Four
• Cane and decidedly not able
• ‘A Motive More Human’: The Alice Mitchell Case, Part Three
• Lay all your meta on me
• ‘A Motive More Human’: The Alice Mitchell Case, Part Two
• ‘A Motive More Human’: The Alice Mitchell Case, Part One
• So, that’s how I’ve spent my weekend
• Whiteness is no blank slate
• Girls Not Brides, a new campaign against child marriage
• When resistance looks like capitulation
• I’m joining Hoyden About Town
• Linksplosion: other than what we are edition
• People don’t need solutions, be they Pacific, Malaysia, or Nauru
• When food groups go very wrong
• Where some blogs are going and others have gone
• An Education in Racism
• Misogyny, Murdoch, and Julia Gillard
• Tuneful Tuesday: T.V. Carpio
• Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor DUFC
• Linksplosion! Four Aussies and a Canadian edition
• Pigging along
• Unclouding with a wordcloud
• The deficient single woman
• Music Monday: In These Shoes?
• Subtext revisited
• Triple feature
• How to write yourself out of your own life
• Music Monday: Many Hands
• The latest in Chally’s reading adventures!
• Feminist wordplay: your turn
• The kinds of history that go into building identity
• Music Monday: Sachal Orchestra
• Born this way: causation and otherness
• Crossing paths
• Some opening thoughts on religious faith and social justice
• Linksplosion: a bit of everything edition
• What’s to be done?
• There will not be much sleep to be had in Sydney tonight
• Questions I Don’t Like Being Asked
• Women, work, and the conversations we’re having
• A post both requested and requisite
• Not enough is in a name
• It’s almost the end of July…
• Faithful to thee, books! In a fashion
• The extraordinary story of Esther Abrahams
• A list of things about me, part nine
• And have you any dreams you’d like to sell
• Physicality
• Why I Post Pictures of Myself on the Internet
• New theme!
• Linksplosion: Another look at race edition
• And There I Thought Jokes were Supposed to be Funny
• Chally Kacelnik, live and awkward
• Writing Race
• So various, so beautiful, so DUFC
• Review: Bridesmaids
• Freelancing while female
• Touch
• Various things!
• By reader request…!
• Piggie pictures
• The heavy centre
• Community
• Spoilers, sweetie
• Gratitude
• Following up
• Meta incognita
• For the world, which seems / To lie before us like a land of DUFC
• Are we really going to do this? Part 2
• Are we really going to do this? Part 1
• It’s almost the end of May…
• Guess who’s in The Guardian?
• Here and gone
• We can do better than this, surely?
• A list of things about me, part eight
• Breasts? Did someone mention breasts?
• Linksplosion! Haven’t done one of these in a while edition
• Representing representations of feminism
• Meet Cardamom and Pepper
• Ah, love, let us be true to DUFC!
• Who is “we”?
• Winners & Losers has definitely lost
• Location, location, location
• Learning how to take a compliment
• More and (again) varied announcements
• Updates of various natures
• An open thread on this magnificent Monday
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• The slings and arrows of outrageous DUFC
• (Dis)connected
• A list of things about me, part seven
• Winners & Losers winning and losing
• NSW Votes 2011, so help us all
• It’s almost the end of March…
• On representing one’s race
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Some opening thoughts on race in (and as) science fiction dystopia(s)
• Justice
• Being practical about the whole thing
• The best thing a woman can hope for
• Do you know what today is? And elsewhere I’ve been
• Review: Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room
• Those hours, that with gentle work did frame DUFC
• Love and Pain and Knitting
• Pent-up Cookery
• There is ever so much in the world left to read!
• It’s almost the end of February…
• DUFC stops for no woman
• We’re all going on a summer holiday
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Confessions of a DUFC Coordinator
• It’s almost the end of January…
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• The 2011 Reading List of Enormity
• Hair, hair, hair
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• A politically confusing moment
• A list of things about me, part six
• Representing
• More on the Sydney Summery Meetup
• It is a new dawn! A dawn of DUFC!
• Getting into the spirit of things
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Blogiversary, or, a 2010 review
• Semi-open thread
• Linksplosion: End of year epic linkage edition
• It’s almost the end of December…
• Blindness in Greek Myth
• Sydney Summery Meetup: the Details
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Colouring Perception
• On the Christmas Island tragedy
• Sydney Summery Meetup
• Constant Vigilance
• Chally and the uterine fistfight
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• I can smell DUFC in the air
• Review: Lasting Treasures by Julie Ellis
• I can’t believe it’s not meta!
• Naming is how you make it real
• Hay u guiz
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Sweet pancakes, everyone, it’s an audio post!
• Congratulations, Larissa Behrendt
• Two DUFC things
• Webcomics Wednesday: Riot Nrrd
• Transgender Day of Remembrance 2010
• It’s my birthday!
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• It’s DUFC time again!
• Open Thread
• Racial Identity Cannot be Determined by Casual Bystanders
• Exciting news!!!!!
• Okay.
• On Muslim women having agency
• It’s almost the end of October…
• Joy
• Elsewhere I’ve been
• Unreality and the politics of experience
• Relative to What? Part Two
• Relative to What? Part One
• Quick question
• DUFC time has rolled around again!
• Linksplosion: to be savoured like the delicious things they are edition
• Taking a sickie
• It’s almost the end of September…
• Elsewhere: One of my favourite bits of cognitive dissonance
• Sometimes social justice is about staying silent
• Making myself again
• It’s DUFC time!
• Following up on the Sydney feminist blogger meet-up
• It’s almost the end of August…
• Sydney feminist blogger meet-up update!
• Two-fold post
• Music Monday: Monday (Almost) Random Ten
• Linksplosion!: And some for the road edition
• On Centring Caregivers in Disability Discourse
• You know, I should stop blogging about social justice…
• Sydney, Australia feminist blogger meet-up on 29 August!
• The 27th Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
• Interview with Scarleteen’s Heather Corinna
• Book Review: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• It’s almost the end of July…
• ‘I’m the Doctor, I’m worse than everyone’s aunt! And that is not how I’m introducing myself.’
• Linksplosion: Cleaning out the reader edition
• Book Review: Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne
• Two posts in one
• Your Guide to Intersectionality and Raptors
• I’m the new coordinator for the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• Melbourne: A trip in pictures!
• Running in before running out
• So much to think about
• Referring you on.
• On being absent
• Memory
• Happy times in Challyville!
• What a time it has been…
• Doctor Who discussion thread
• My life right now, let me show you it.
• Linksplosion! Poetry edition
• Why hello there, readers!
• Blog note
• A small story
• Smarts, books, teens and fairy dust
• Figuratively
• Who what when where why how?
• Following up on the F Conference
• Greetings, readers!
• Relocating while disabled
• And another thing.
• Blog notes and a couple of reminders
• Keeping up appearances
• In Advance of The Eleventh Hour
• Things I’ve Published Elsewhere I Haven’t Cross-Posted or Linked to Here
• What does culture mean to you?
• Aware of what exactly?
• F Conference!
• Small World by David Lodge
• Film Review: The Music In Me
• Thinking about Helen in the Aenid
• Progressive teenage bloggers: a list and some thoughts
• Linksplosion! Allywork edition
• I’d like to thank…
• On standing up, but not for myself
• Without and within, part two
• Books, lots of them!
• Without and within, part one
• Doctor Who discussion thread
• Four years in a world without Octavia Butler.
• Incremental progress sometimes frustrates me more than no progress
• And it’s gold! gold! in the women’s meta event!
• I’m like Jesus, except with more vomit.
• If I might direct your attention…
• Linksplosion! Pick ‘n’ mix edition
• A list of things about me, part five
• How are you?
• On identifying identities
• Music Monday: Young people being amazing edition
• Disgusting.
• Telly!
• The Thirteenth Carnival of Feminists
• Music Monday: Karaoke Edition
• Where in the world is Chally?
• The 250th Post
• Invisible Identities, Part 3: The Privileges and Pains of Passing
• Separation, community, difference
• On writing about disability
• Call for Submissions: The 13th Carnival of Feminists
• The importance of women’s friendships
• Disability is not your analogy
• Linksplosion! Personal stories edition
• Feeling like a nice cool glass of lemonade!
• That’s that, then.
• Music Monday: Natalie Imbruglia
• And she cried sweet tears of meta
• Two things I have lost, three things I have gained
• Film Review: Beyond Words
• Brave
• Blogiversary, or, a 2009 review
• Thoughts on storytelling
• Blogular note
• Linksplosion! Relating edition
• Talking down disability while talking down to young people
• Music Monday: Mamma Mia!
• I. HAVE. RETURNED!
• Have you seen the latest meta? That is some meta, right there.
• Invisible Identities, Part 2: The Default Human
• Me, elsewhere
• Music Monday: Annie Lennox
• Chocolate caramel tartlets!
• Webcomics Wednesday: Ugly Girl by Nanda
• The Maguindanao Massacre
• Important announcement concerning punctuation and milkshakes
• Invisible Identities, Part 1: Invisible to Whom?
• Amusing answers to clueless questions
• A list of things about me, part four
• I’ve been nominated at the 2009 Weblog Awards
• TDOR 2009
• Recollecting and collecting ourselves
• Post-birthday elsewhere-ing
• Happy birthday to me!
• Transforming transport for women
• Linksplosion! Quotage edition
• Limits
• Awarded!
• Duality
• Peeling the sticky tape away from sex ed
• A little gratitude
• Ableism and the Aussie Battler
• The meta! It’s everywhere!
• Three posts in one!
• This is one of those surreal, ‘what the pancake?!’ type posts where I can’t quite believe what I’m typing even as I’m typing it. With very long titles. Probably the longest title yet.
• A bit of disability humour to brighten your day
• ‘Hold on to those mascara horses.’
• Music Monday: Chally celebrates edition
• Answers I love to/hope to one day give
• (Largely) Open thread
• I roam the Internet, claiming my places…
• Thoughtful thoughts on women, blogging, and free speech
• Nowhere near good enough
• Feminism that doesn’t advance women is no feminism at all.
• In which searchers are assisted
• In which much meta postage is accomplished
• The Fifth Carnival of Feminists
• It’s your last chance to submit to the Fifth Carnival of Feminists
• Sarah Haskins times four equals win
• Knitting goodness
• Next on the list of things that really annoy me
• Linksplosion! Parenting edition
• Music Monday: k.d. lang
• Call for submissions: The Fifth Carnival of Feminists
• A meditation on change
• This is what an activist looks like
• I have a new video person
• Bumper blogroll update
• Webcomics Wednesday: Blue by Patricia Grullon
• Representing presentation: process fascination and policing trans identities
• Bookclubbing
• In which I address Indigenous housing issues in the Northern Territory
• Linksplosion! Bodies and body image edition
• Review: “The Women Men Don’t See” by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Music Monday: India Arie
• Oh, my word!
• The name’s the thing
• Healing, forgiveness, letting go
• In which homework is assigned
• Linksplosion! Down under edition
• Cutiepies on Sunday
• Environmentally-friendly sexyfun!
• More for the blogroll; also, diversity of same
• Music Monday: Fiona Apple
• A little meta this, a little meta that…
• They are mine, they are mine, they are mine
• An observation
• Happy birthday, Sarah Haskins!
• Well, look what we have here.
• Waiting, in between
• Chally’s brain is going on holidays
• It’s shiny, it’s super, it’s linkage!
• Racefail continues much as one might expect, but I had been optimistic.
• Feminist science fiction blogging: James, Raccoona and Alice
• A thought on discussion of trans issues by cis people
• A bingo card for fail in the feminist blogosphere?
• Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Obama Arms
• Music?
• Internet quizzes are the answer to all troubles
• Fluffy Youtubery of amusement
• Australia, make at least a minimal effort
• Further to #2
• On conceiving of ourselves
• One word meme
• A double shot of Sarah Haskins!
• There’s something in your hair. I think it’s a piece of meta.
• How I realised I am a feminist
• Dance break!
• The Twelfth Down Under Feminists Carnival
• Last chance to submit to the Down Under Feminists Carnival!
• Talking about it.
• Trees are peaceful
• April feminist blogging #3
• A list of things about me, part three
• Fluffy, fluffy Blackpool blogging
• Interwebs, what have you brought me?
• Various announcements on various carnivals, including a reminder to submit to DUFC!
• An afterword on Not Staying Silent
• Not Staying Silent: Recovery
• Not Staying Silent: Response
• Not Staying Silent: Deference
• Not Staying Silent: Real Problems
• Justice for Angie Zapata at last
• Not Staying Silent: Claiming the Label, or, conceptualising myself as disabled
• Not Staying Silent: I hope you know what you’ve done
• Not Staying Silent: Introduction
• Sarah Haskins is at it again
• April feminist blogging #2
• More blogs in the blogroll
• Happy 38th, David Tennant!
• Reminder to submit to the Down Under Feminists Carnival
• Direction
• Impenetrable Swamps, Loyal Dogs, Short Women
• A meta salad with meta dressing
• More search terms
• On the Bonds ads
• Over to you
• April feminist blogging round-up #1
• About six Sarah Haskins posts in one
• Call for Submissions: The Twelfth Down Under Feminists Carnival
• Not so much with the dancing, no
• Say, we haven’t filled our daily quota of dehumanisation! Let’s go do that then.
• March feminist blogging round-up
• A “this is what’s going on in my life” post
• In… out…
• Thank you, kind searcher, for your wisdom
• The 100th post
• Donna Noble is made of pure and utter win
• Further to a number of previous posts
• Flirty fashion and what they’re not telling you
• Angela Davis and preliminary thoughts on feminist icons
• This ad causes me the headache it is meant to help fix
• Contextual activism
• It’s time for a Racefail update!
• But can a robot lady learn to love?
• I won’t be doing that again
• Look, readers, I have the shiny for you
• “Jungles aren’t racist!”
• ZatB Wordle
• International Women’s Day 2009
• In which I offer helpful answers to searchers’ queries
• A list of things about me, part two
• In which I present my readers with a video of win
• Queer people of colour, colonialism, and the white ownership of queer identities
• Integration
• Buses and silly, silly me
• February feminism round-up
• Tip of the day
• A Left-Handed Commencement Address
• Welcome, new readers!
• Ace
• Octavia E. Butler died three years ago today
• Is it ever appropriate to appropriate language?
• The interview meme
• Giving on many counts
• Dear Planet
• Whovian cool from ’63
• Adding another perspective to the feminist conversation on House
• In which I rant about toilets
• As we sit here and quietly contemplate the universe
• Happy Valentine’s, feminists
• As your Valentine’s gift, readers, I present linkage
• Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Online Dating
• ‘Women the new pimps in human trafficking trade’
• Today is the first anniversary of the apology
• Women, Power and Politics exhibition at the International Museum of Women
• About the FSF fandom explosion over race
• The importance of independent thought: a further note on democracy
• Time and fire
• On the edge of my seat: a note on democracy
• ‘Our darkest day’
• Quick link: violence against trans women in Honduras
• A list of things about me, part one
• Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Chocolate
• Justice Ginsburg is ill and I wish her well
• Go check out the 9th Down Under Feminists Carnival
• Hey, you!
• Well, I completely missed that…
• In which improper capitalisation is employed
• Fancy that, did you know, FYI
• A women’s safe house in Ngukurr and feelings of inadequacy
• To the person who searched ‘i am scared to go to school’
• Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Super Special
• No one should be scared to go to school
• Observe the shiny
• Book review: Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
• Feminist photography and fun
• President Obama has signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
• Johanna Sigurdardottir appointed interim PM in Iceland
• Feminism in unexpected places
• Australia Day 2009
• Hiccups in my schedule
• Observe, dear readers, as I take you into the future…
• A letter to myself
• New Sarah Haskins! Target Women: Ann Curry
• This one’s for the people who come here searching for Emily Dickinson analysis
• Finding one discomfiting idea among many: everything I have to say about Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series
• Blog for Choice post round-up
• Making ZatB more accessible
• The Target Women and Sarah Haskins round-up
• Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day: the optimistic post
• Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day: the sad post
• Nancy Bird Walton’s funeral today
• Presenting a report on female reporters and presenters
• Apparently I find Google News irresistable
• You gotta hear left, your music solids bowls the sound
• How meta of me!
• Wishes, January edition
• Nancy Bird Walton has died at 93
• Today in feminist images
• More by way of confusing and upsetting news
• An astounding confluence of oppressions in forty seconds
• Because I can’t let this lie and it needs to be said year round
• Twittering
• An eclectic mix of news from the beginning of January
• My political compass, current version
• Sunday Snippets
• A dose of Australian politics: ray of hope edition
• A little January blogkeeping
• On heart, strength, endurance and engagement, or, a 2008 review
• And now I’m off again
• An overview of accessible public transport
• Pre-holiday quick post
• My reading list for the next little while
• Partying while feminist
• Start