I'm very disturbed that my comments are now googleable. And I guess so is
this one I'm writing right now. There's no context and it's just ery
disturbing. My short has been seen in 25 film festivals around the world
and now it appears that any comment I make is googleable, which will have a
deleterious effect on me in terms of getting a job. Please remove all my
comments. I'm really upset -- I'm afraid of what I say.
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:59:12 +1100
From: Gillian White <whiteghost.ink(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Gendergap] Catherine Hamlin
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
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Dear All,
Since [[Catherine Hamlin]] was invited to lunch by the Queen last week
during her visit here, I thought her article ought to be improved.
(Hamlin's, that is.) It and its companion, the [[Addis Ababa Fistula
Hospital]] were a bit of a mess so I have separated them out and organised
them, linking all the awards and hopefully explaining Hamlin's
contributions better.
I mentioned her before in an earlier email on this list but now I hope that
readers can better see in these two articles why she is such an amazing
person and such a heroine - someone IMHO of whom everyone on this list
ought to be aware. This is a woman who is personally responsible for curing
thousands of women who would otherwise be cast out and without hope. And
she is still operating - still doing surgery in her mid-eighties and
training others to follow on. In the cosmic scheme of things, had we we
been born in a slightly different place or time, we might have been one of
the women who needed help such as she provides. All her patients have an
obstetric problem that we in the developed world do not have to worry about
anymore as we solved it in the middle of the 20th century. It is completely
preventable with good obstetric care and Hamlin has been giving that
selflessly and expertly for 50 years. Here is someone making a real
difference to women's lives and confronting problems far worse than name
calling. My hat goes off to her ...
Gillian