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Music company funded Roxanne Shante’s PhD

Posted in awesome, teaspoons, tagged , , , , , on 28 August 2009 | 1 Comment »

ETA: Or maybe not!
Via
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This post really warmed my heart.
Roxanne Shante – a teen rapper in the 1980s – had a contract with Warner Music. It included a clause that the company would pay for Shante’s education for the rest of her life.
She made them pay up. Including for her PhD.
That’s pretty fucking awesome.
h/t PostBourgie (the [...]

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A little activism against the Intervention

Posted in Indigenous Australians, Indigenous rights, Reconciliation Week, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 27 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Fire Fly has more detail.
Basically: Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin, has announced that there will be a compulsory acquisition of Alice Springs town camps.
She has wonderful [that's sarcasm] timing, today being the start of National Reconcilation Week and all.
Fire Fly has a good roundup of information, including the text of a statement put together by [...]

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Close the Gap day – sign the petition

Posted in Indigenous rights, health, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 2 April 2009 | 1 Comment »

Today is Close the Gap day.
What gap? The 17 year gap in average life expectancy between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
That’s 17 years.
Amnesty has a petition.
At the time of writing, there were only about 550 signatures. That’s horrendously low. I encourage you to go and add yours.
(I found out about this from hexy.)

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Calling all academic mothers!

Posted in parenting, teaspoons, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 16 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Are you, or have you ever been, a mother academic?
There’s a call for papers out for a collection of both narratives & articles about academic motherhood. (That takes you to a pdf, so if you don’t like those, try the general page here – the “Being a Mother Academic” link takes you to the same [...]

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Whingeing as a feminist act

Posted in feminism, teaspoons, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on 24 February 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’m feeling a little bit proud of myself. In the past 24 hours, I’ve made two complaints to supervisors about the marginally (ie socially) acceptable behaviour of young men, and been taken seriously. (Incidentally, both of the supervisors I spoke to were named Rachel. So: kudos to Rachels!)
There are descriptions of the complaints I [...]

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Help put an end to mandatory detention for asylum seekers

Posted in asylum seekers, tagged , , , , on 21 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I don’t usually post GetUp links, because most of them are about current issues and I generally assume that most people who want to hear about them, will.
However, something that is not so much of a current issue is the mandatory detention of asylum seekers.
According to GetUp, the Federal Government has established an inquiry into [...]

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