The Fifty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Welcome to the fifty-sixth month of Down Under Feminists Carnival goodness. I am your host, Chally, and I am glad …
Tag Archives: identity
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 …
Refining the defining of womanhood
As per Jo, I’m thinking about how we define womanhood. Ideal womanhood is something you can’t catch up to, no …
Assuming identities
I have a great unwillingness to assign people identities without their say so. (See We can do better than this, …
The Forty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Hello and welcome to the forty-sixth edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival! I last hosted DUFC #12, so I’m …
Never forget where you came from
Identity and vulnerable social positioning aren’t necessarily constant things. You move. You grow up. Maybe your gender or sexual orientation …
Why I Post Pictures of Myself on the Internet
I post pictures of myself on the Internet because it is part and parcel of blogging about my life, but …
Writing Race
As a trend, there’s a stark difference between fiction written by authors identifying as white or otherwise. In the former, …
Are we really going to do this? Part 2
Part 1 I was particularly disappointed to see this critique of SlutWalk in the Australian context – hi Crikey post …
Are we really going to do this? Part 1
Personally, SlutWalk is not something that appeals to me. That is, I absolutely respect and support other people who are …
Here and gone
It occurred to me that the fact that I have a lot of trouble spelling aloud would be a suitably …
We can do better than this, surely?
This post, while not strictly speaking about Doctor Who, contains a spoiler for the second episode in the current (sixth) …
Okay.
Okay. As we’re probably all aware at this stage, I have a problem around being misracialised, which is why I’ve …
On identifying identities
I’ve noticed that a big theme on this blog is identity, which makes sense as I write on, well, social …
Disgusting.
I can’t quite bear to add much commentary to this. Everything you need to know is in The name’s the …
