On a personal note
I’ve long maintained that I have the best, kindest readers in the multiverse. I’ll sometimes get emails from people asking …
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Queerness and deception
I’m thinking about the idea that queer people, before they come out or are outed, are deceptive. It’s the idea …
It’s almost the end of July…
This is your regular reminder to submit to DUFC. The next edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is planned …
Working towards the positive
Feminism has, reasonably obviously, been useful to me in developing my thinking about the issues: reproductive freedom, gender essentialism, and …
Linksplosion! July edition
Sticking to recent links for once! Peeling Back The Labels: ‘Femme’ By Default by Becca Dickerson at Racialicious: Discovering hard …
Which kinds of bodies are respected?
In the West, you express deference by distance. You simply cannot touch Elizabeth II. In business situations, you shake hands …
Negating Nushu: Through Imposition
This is part of a series on the supposed death of nushu, considered to be the only language in the …
Quite a lot of books
Here are my favourites of what I’ve been reading since my last readerly update, which was in May! I’ve the …
Acknowledging difference without othering
I find that people often treat the line between othering and acknowledging difference as a fine one. It’s not. I’ve …
Negating Nushu: Nushu Users
This is part of a series on the supposed death of nushu, considered to be the only language in the …
Down Under Feminists Carnival time again
I am, and I am sorry to say I am, sick, so excuse the light postage, and also that this …
Negating Nushu: Through Governmental Means
This is part of a series on the supposed death of nushu, considered to be the only language in the …
Specifying whiteness, undoing violence
This is going to sound strange, perhaps, but I feel bad for white people. Racism, of course, relies on a …
Negating Nushu: Through Journalism
This is part of a series on the supposed death of nushu, considered to be the only language in the …
It’s almost the end of June…
This is your regular reminder that the next edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is planned for 5 July, …
