These dead petals
DaisyDeadHead has a guest spot at Feministe this week, and has written an absolutely bitchin post on the cultural weirdness and invisibility surrounding older women and how it ties into our even greater weirdness and duck-and-covering related to the thought that we might actually get old one day. She’s linked a lot of kick-arse blogs there too, so go have a read.
As an example, thanks to Daisy linking JJ, I’ve just discovered that the Canadian government has kicked out a badly written bill called the Unborn Victims of Crime Act which threatened to reopen the abortion debate and play into the hands of pro life groups, pledging to redraft and return with a law that increases penalties for attacks against pregnant women as they initially intended. Go Canadian Activists and go Canada! We can always use more good news; it helps make the world look brighter.
In less bright news, the US legal system has yet again affirmed the disposability of Trans people by convicting Terron Oates of Voluntary Manslaughter for his killing of Alexis King because as we’ve all learned, Trans Panic trumps blatant evidence of premeditation. Get ready for there to be no comment about this case when he goes out and kills someone the courts think actually matters.
Mildly more positively, Helen G passes on a report from the Croydon Advertiser that police are reviewing the case against the killer of Kellie Telsford to see if they can take any further action – hopefully something will come of this.
Less politically, I had a fantastic weekend, finished a very good book that I’m going to try and post a review of later and stumbled across a very exciting opportunity while I was out at the airfield on Sunday. I’ll post more about it later; for now I’ll leave you with this picture as a teaser ...
Thank you so much for your wonderful comments and linkage! Blogging for any readership but my own is scary stuff, so you make me feel so much better.
Can't wait to read about your piloting (or whatever it is!) experiences.
DaisyDeadheads last blog post..I am guest blogging at Feministe this week...