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The late linkspam of August (overseas edition) 12 Aug 2013 | 12:58 pm
So I’m enjoying myself in a bit of summer (thought right now I’m a bit too hot), in Europe, and I completely forgot my linkspam duties. So here is some linkspam, albeit a bit late. Laurie Penny at T...
One of these things is not like the other 8 Aug 2013 | 10:12 pm
When pinpointing one of many causes of mental illness, I think there is a big difference between stating that your mental health was impacted by how you were treated by others, such as bullying, haras...
Europe 2013: Rome 8 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
We arrived in Rome on Sunday, completely wasted and insufficiently prepared for the 38C day ahead of us, and the fact that we had 4 hours between us arriving at our accommodation and being able to che...
Post mid-winter linkspam – the summer is coming (July 2013) 5 Jul 2013 | 05:27 pm
So another month passes, and we’re closer to the warmer weather. It’s funny how I look forward to the cooler weather in summer, and the warmer weather in winter. Anyway, have some amazing links that...
The most persecuted group in the world 21 Jun 2013 | 06:43 pm
So today my sister sent me a link to a article from the West Australian detailing WA Liberal MP Luke Simpkins and his support of anti-halal food, or that all food should be labelled halal if it is, be...
The moral high ground 17 Jun 2013 | 05:18 pm
Recently I was listening to a conversation between my mother and my sister. My mother had given up on convincing me to join her at church that Sunday and was talking to my sister instead, hoping to c...
Let’s talk about polyamory (again) 15 Jun 2013 | 08:18 pm
So, I’m going to get all ranty pants here about polyamory because… just argh. Now I’m totally on board with the fact that there is no “one true way” to do polyamory, I think there are several ways to...
The cold linkspam of our discontent (June 2013) 8 Jun 2013 | 05:35 pm
I’ve found many wonderful things to read in May, so I will share them with you. I’ve also switched over to Newsblur, which has a sharing functionality, now that Google Reader is on it’s way out. It ...
Gay marriage is still an exclusionary term 22 May 2013 | 05:42 pm
I can’t believe I’m still writing articles about this, but here we go again. Recently Murray Lipp, a social justice activist in the US, penned an article for the exclusionary named HuffPost “Gay Voic...
Let’s talk about shame 21 May 2013 | 05:42 pm
I would argue that there are two kinds of shame, the shame of realising that you’ve completely fucked up and done the wrong thing and the shame used to silence people by either making them believe tha...