Our regular round-up of worth-a-clicks: - littlegemsession writes about her politics and the influence of crafting, and mothering, on their evolution.
- Our own Maia has a post up at Alas, about the odd use of the term 'haka' on some American blogs, resulting in a robust discussion in comments about appropriation, mis-appropriation, racism, and more.
- Kathy Pollitt, writing at The Nation, starts out expressing her outrage at Phyllis Schlafly receiving an honorary doctorate (for services to misogynists I wonder?) and goes on to detail some of the spectacular backlash against feminism underway in the USA. (Thanks to Deborah for suggesting this one).
- Lyn uses the race for the Democratic nomination in the USA to illustrate her point about exemplars encouraging women to break into previous under-womanned* areas of life.
- Ann at Feministing has a few very very pertinent links about natural disasters and how badly women caught up in them suffer.
- Jess reflects on Ladyfest London. Wouldn't it be awesome if we had the numbers to have something like this in Aotearoa?
- kakariki has a cracker of a report on an anti-war demo by the Revolutionary Craft Womyn of Addington, complete with pics!
- Ana marks the 30th anniversary of the re-occupation of Takaparawha, also known as Bastion Point.
As always, feel free to use this thread to shamelessly promote stuff you have written, or plug something by someone else that you think rocks.
* I just made that word up, I'm not sure whether it has legs or not.
3 comments:
actually, aotearoa has had a few ladyfests already! a couple in auckland, and one in wellington.
OOooh really - I'd go to a ladyfest. Right now I am fuming because housewives (that's me) dont' get sick leave and I am fed up with battling on with 3 littlies when I should be in bed. Imagine if there was a scheme that you could call in sick and a "reliever" would appear to take over
That's great brooke! Would love to find out more about them :-) Any links you can share?
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