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admin on December 9th, 2010
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I’m a huge supporter of what WikiLeaks is doing. I’m tired of the duplicity of the world’s governments and feel that something needed to be done to bring this all out into the open. I’m horrified by the attempts to silence WikiLeaks and see the current actions of the affected governments as a clear example [...]

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admin on May 3rd, 2010
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Those that have read my blog for some time will know that I’m one of those scary bisexual people. I really do have a choice about the sort of people I want to have relationships with, unlike people who are more strongly homosexual or heterosexual (not that I actually have any choice about who I [...]

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admin on March 28th, 2010
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Sorry for being late with my contribution to Ada Lovelace Day… For the last few days, sleep and recovery have taken priority over blogging, but I’m feeling a lot more energetic today! I wanted to recognise a woman who most people wouldn’t see as being a scientist, largely because she was a beautiful actress of [...]

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admin on March 19th, 2010
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On 24th March, it’s Ada Lovelace Day 2010 where hopefully 3500 bloggers will be writing a post about a woman in science. Far too many women are erased from history, in science perhaps even more than elsewhere. Ada Lovelace Day is all about bringing these women into the limelight, where they belong, telling their stories [...]

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admin on October 15th, 2009
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I stopped reading Feministing a little while before the whole trans boycott of the site largely because it was clear to me that it isn’t a safe place for trans women. It was already quite clear to me that the site holds a quite narrow view of feminism which did exclude a lot of women [...]

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admin on October 14th, 2009
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If you were ever looking for the ideal way to express to a man why so many women live in fear of men raping them and how they should act when it comes to interacting with women, send them to this blog post: Shapely Prose : Schrödinger’s Rapist Possibly Related Posts: Is Julian Assange a [...]

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admin on September 15th, 2009

MedIndia is reporting that Caster Semenya is on suicide watch thanks to the trauma of discovering she is intersexed. I can’t imagine how horrible this must be for her, first of all having to accept that her body is not as she felt it was, with huge implications for her career and her future life, [...]

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admin on December 20th, 2008

Imagine taking a trip to see your parents in Bangladesh and upon arrival being kidnapped, bundled into a tiny room and then forced to take sleeping tablets. Imagine then being tied up, thrown into a private ambulance and driven to a psychiatric hospital where you’re given a large dose of anti-psychotics. In this state, unable [...]

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admin on December 20th, 2008

In Britain, there’s been quite a bit of news coverage over Lillian Ladele, a registrar in Islington, a bourough of London. Under British law, registrars are responsible for civil marriages, including the civil unions which allow gay and lesbian people some of the rights of a married heterosexual couple. She made the headlines when Islington [...]

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admin on December 13th, 2008

One of the reasons* a lot of radical feminists hate trans people is that we are a wrench in the works of their supposed nirvana of a gender-free world. You see, trans people see very clearly that their physical gender doesn’t match the gender they identify with. We’re mostly very sure about what our true [...]

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