Ele Ludemann

Woman of the day Woman of the Day investigative journalist, teacher, and human rights activist Ida B. Wells, born in OTD 1862 in Mississippi, in slavery. A lifelong campaigner for equal rights for black Americans and for women’s suffrage, she co-founded the NAACP. Ten weeks after her birth, Ida… pic.twitter.com/YLeH9QrOxd — Lily Craven (@TheAttagirls) July 16, 2026 This entry was posted on Friday, July 17th, 2026 at 10:00 am and is filed under politics, women, women's rights.

Submissions have closed on the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill. It needs refining but the intent is right and the select committee has the ability to ensure the Bill reflects the intent and makes that clear in law. The law must adhere to science not ideology and it’s not too late to write to, or make an appointment with, MPs to ask them to ensure that happens.

Word of the day Pessimise – to take a pessimistic view of something; to speak of in a negative or pessimistic way; to make a situation as bad as possible; to intentionally degrade the efficiency and performance of a system; to make something worse, less efficient or less functional. This entry was posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2026 at 3:00 pm and is filed under language. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.