Otterday! And Open Thread.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
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Friday Hoyden: Marita Cheng, Young Australian of the Year
Marita Cheng is the Young Australian of the Year winner this year. In 2008, early in her undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne, she founded Robogals, which is an engineering and computing outreach group.
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Hating Australia Day from afar
Today is the second Australia Day since I moved to the United States. One of the most surprising things for me to experience out of Australia was people saying–even in the American South!–Australia’s really racist, isn’t it? And personally, I hate that. I hate that there is such a strong implicit idea of who an Australian “is,” and how racist and dependent on assimilation that is. I hate the way that is enforced with violence and ugly rhetoric, and I hate the policies that our country mobilises against Aboriginal communities and refugees.
And yet. For all that I hate what Australia Day represents, I am more homesick than usual today.
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There really is a tumblr for everything
OMSFSM totally NSFW. Link in clear text because I don’t want anybody to say that they weren’t warned.
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Sunday Singalong: Remembering Etta James
Lots of folks have been playing her ballads or her blues songs of lost love, which are classic Etta, but I especially loved her when she got playful. This is one of my favourite versions of You Can Leave Your Hat On.
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On the ethics of ignoring your power: The Feministe controversy
There are some tough questions here, but also, some solid suggestions on what can be done to improve big feminist sites like Feministe for the people outside of mainstream power bases.
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My favourite place in Australia
It’s a question with so many potential answers in such an amazing land, and it’s also a question of which place is the least painful.
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Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s otter video is a tribute to the passing of an online Best Mate who loved his coffee, whisky, urban legends, puns, poker and pointed sarcasm. Vale atque ave, Phil Gustafson – somewhere a JATO car is pacing your passage, and somehow a scuba suit is involved. Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
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Weekend womenscraft: Eat your art
I didn’t make these so I can’t give you any baking or food preparation tips, I think they look kinda self-explanatory. I’m just putting the idea out there and lettin’ you know that with a little bit of effort you could be the type of very interesting person who makes and eats art. Image: Rothko-inspired [...]
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Congratulations to HAT author Mary Gardiner – Rusty Wrench Award winner
A few days ago I caught up with Tigtog, who’d flown to Melbourne from Sydney to attend the AdaCamp unconference. I also had the opportunity to meet other people I’ve “met” in the blogosphere, including Mary Gardiner. Mary is, of course, one of our Hoyden authors, and the co-founder of the Ada Initiative, besides other [...]
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