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Breastfeeding people protected in WA at last
I’ve blogged before about the fight to get breastfeeding included in Western Australia’s anti-discrimination legislation. That fight is logged below – now, for purely historical reasons! Because today,...
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Reading the policies: the Coalition’s parental leave consultation document
My attitude to the vast bulk of elections, including the 2010 Federal election, is “I don’t like any of this, please get me out of here”. I usually intend to make an informed decision based on policies...
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Ask Auntie Hoyden: get your dog outlines here, and other search engine queries
auntie hoyden Why, I enjoyed those posts (1, 2, 3) in which Lauredhel tried to answer search queries as questions too! So much so that I show up in this site’s logs looking for them. So today, I too...
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BFTP: Parenting While Female: “It’s Not About You”
This is part of our December slowdown Blast From The Past reposting program. This post was originally published May 2nd, 2007. I’ve been contemplating this post: The Male Gaze… falls upon a Nursing...
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Life at 1: breastfeeding
The longitudinal television program Life at 5, following from Life at 1 and Life at 3, is now showing. This is a series of programs following the development of eleven children, returning to them at...
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Breastfeeding anti-discrimination changes passed at the Federal level
Via the Australian Breastfeeding Association on Twitter, this press release from the Federal Attorney-General: Attorney-General Robert McClelland and Minister for the Status of Women Kate Ellis today...
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Too sexy for breastfeeding?
Image credit. (Some Not Suitable For Work links included in this post). Not long after her baby was born, Madison Young, an adult actor – also an artist, film director, gallery director, and activist...
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Madison Young on that whole breastfeeding controversy
Image credit. Remember this? A breastfeeding portrait of pornographer and feminist performance artist, Madison Young that led another pornographer to accuse her of exploiting and sexualising her baby?...
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Quickhit: World Breastfeeding Week and the Astroturfed “Mommy Wars”
This is the strong finish to a thought-provoking post by Susan Burger: “World Breastfeeding Week Sucks According to this Lactation Consultant”: “[…] I’ve really had it with sensationalist attempts to...
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Media Circus: Inauguration edition
Discussion starters for this media circus edition: 4 years ago we were excited enough to have an inauguration live-blogging widget: this time meh. Obama gives good speeches though. Some subeditor took...
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