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Normalising the Language of the Sex Industry
Have you noticed the language of the sex industry had filtered down to everyday life. Anything now can be described as hardcore. Sport. Music.And now this. ABC3 has a game for children called 'Pimp...
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Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012
Have you seen the list of events for this year's Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House.There are some I'm interested in going to, and if you'd like to come with me, let me know so we...
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TV. Woe is me
If you were studying gender as portrayed by tv you’d be kept very busy.In about 10 minutes of tv viewing yesterday morning I saw that a children’s morning show is being divided into girls shows and...
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Jessie Street - what year is this?
As part of my study I've been looking at Jessie Street's speech she made on radio in 1944. Her speech was made near the end of the war, about the place of women. It is entitled "Is it to be Back to the...
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Women are Heroes
I'd read about this book in The Guardian Weekly. An urban activist called JR has collected stories from women in developing countries about their lives, and taken close up photographs of their faces -...
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Dorothy Hewett - mother poem
At the moment for uni I'm looking at Australian Theatre and doing an assignment on Dorothy Hewett's The Chapel Perilous. We have a number of plays to choose from (the ones prescribed for HSC Drama) and...
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Doing more, having more, except more space.
I need help sorting out my stuff.I have too many books and Matilda wants me to get rid of some. I have collections of books about maternal feminism, books about literature, novels I've read, novels...
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Dorothy Porter - mother poem
Lets have a few Dorothys this week (it's Dorothy Parker's birthday on Wednesday). I was tempted to call my first born Dorothy. I then considered a diminutive, my grandmother's name, then settled on...
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Dororthy Parker
Dorothy Parker and I shared a birthday yesterday, as we do very year. She and I are both Leo Snakes. Sometimes I think, if I hadn't had children, I would have ended up like her, drinking lots,...
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Screening of Miss Representation in Sydney
Paula, from the blog Questions For Women, has organised a screening of Miss Representation at Dendy Cinema at the Opera House. Mon 2 Sept at 6.30. $20.I know lots of local feminists have been looking...
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Welcome to my week
This week is a big one, the last for third term.I have two assignments due. The children have two evening concerts. Matilda has debating and public speaking. Oh, and a cake stall, just to round out the...
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Words on the way out
I’ve already said I’m not using the words ‘sexy’ or ‘hot’ anymore (not that I did use them anyway), because they are so overused they are emptied of meaning. There are lots of other words that could...
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wcc
I was going to post a few weeks ago saying that my body has been coming up with new and interesting ways to tell me to rest. I had no idea how true that statement would have been.I’ve been feeling...
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Another day, another plan.
It turns out my disease is more progressed than we first thought. The bone marrow biopsy results show elements of the next phases, accelerated and blasts. Also, my white cell count has increased over...
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Changing Direction
At last post my wcc was 124 and I started on the chemo drugs. On Saturday my wcc was 120. Not great, but a change in direction, and a significant one. I was instructed to increase the meds. Today, my...
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Bones
As a child my nickname was Bones, because I was so skinny it was painful for adults when I sat on their lap. Yesterday my white cell count was 22. That's a freaking miracle - down from 124 last week....
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Reasons to be grateful
Last night I puked up my meds. Not uncommon, apparently, but not good. I rang the hospital and they said to just try again tonight, but if the meds don't stay down, I need to come in.Today I'll be...
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Adventures in CML
I spoke too soon about not needing to pack a hospital bag. I’d better post an update before anything else happens.I've spent two nights in hospital. My wcc was 2.6 and my haemoglobin too low at 73...
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Nearly Normal
Today my bloods are closer to normal than they have been since this whole thing started. They’ve been up. They’ve been down. There was nowhere else to go. My wcc today is 17 (a little high). My HB 94...
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More information
Today I discussed with my doctor what I might be planning for. I asked if I should book our Christmas holiday now. She told me to wait a week.My wcc is down to 2.8. That means I need to keep away from...
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