It occurs to me that some lyrics are appro­pri­ate here.I learned this in a forest protest in Goolen­gook in the early 90s.Your idea of health seems to me to be my idea of deathY­our idea of wealth seems to me to be there’ll be noth­ing leftAnd your idea of what’s a…

I didn’t post last week’s topic: it was mil­it­ary sexual slavery and dealt with Japan­ese com­fort women and Bos­nian rape camps and I didn’t really need to dis­cuss what I was doing. I used a tutorial tech­nique called the jigsaw to get dif­fer­ent groups to dis­cuss aspects…

I feel some­what remiss. In all of my busy­n­ess, I have failed to post any­thing mean­ing­ful about Baby­g­ate, the Fair­fax strike or, for that matter, as my mother poin­ted out, the lgeal­isa­tion of abor­tion in Vic­toria (about bloody time).Since I don’t have any­thing more…

The topic for today’s tutorial is based on one of the essay topics: Are fem­in­ist cri­tiques of mil­it­ar­ism essentialist?Many of you who know me will know this is a pet topic. And one I get quite stuck on. My argu­ments are based on social con­struc­tion of gender, but…

I’m not going to recap the argu­ments right this second (in part because I’m still fin­ish­ing the read­ing and don’t have time; in part because I’ve taught domestic viol­ence as part of pre­vi­ous sub­jects and don’t feel I need to). I may do so later… I’m a little annoyed…