Where’s the White Lady brigade when you need em?

Chrissie Swan is in the news again, and the White Lady brigade is out in force to defend her. And so they should. Being hammered for being fat (last year) and for smoking while preggers (this year), is pretty crap and wrong, double-standard, body policing, sexist etc etc. Continue reading Where’s the White Lady brigade when you need em?

Random racist imagery

I really do loathe this racist propaganda. We can’t just let the floods be what they are, we have to somehow use it as an opportunity to remind the world that underneath all the flood water, there still is a racist undercurrent. Can’t just be human, and be in need from other people and communities. You just had to didn’t you….

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The start of the decline?

This morning Son2 was watching a doco about World War 2 on the History Channel. As we were about to leave, there was an interview with an older woman (it was historical footage, probably filmed in the 1970s) about her experience of the rise of Hitler and the early steps to what later become The Holocaust. Continue reading The start of the decline?