Conroy backs down on internet filter
It’s good to see Stephen Conroy finally face the facts: his filter proposal was about as clever as equipping a blue whale to pursue a vulture.
Life at 7: discussion thread
The fourth pair of Life documentaries about Australian children is here: Life at 7. What do you think?
Book Week: Looking For Alibrandi
In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how I read Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi when I was in high school.
Book Week: Playing Beatie Bow
In response to Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Blog Book Week challenge, I remember how Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow affected me as a young teenage reader.
London Olympics 2012: “Sexy” women’s volleyball and basketball uniforms updated at last
Some of you oldie Hoydens might remember my 2008 post on Australian Olympics uniforms, Women still the sex class in international elite sports. I thought I’d do a bit of an update on gender and our Aussie uniforms for the 2012 Olympics. And – how often does this happen? – things have actually changed for the better, at least in two sports!
Most notably, the regulations dictating that all women playing beach volleyball must wear teeny-tiny bikinis has changed. Female beach volleyball players will now have the choice of wearing shorts or bikini bottoms. This change ostensibly took place to enable the participation of more women from countries and cultures which restrict the amount of skin women may show, which is great; it also allows women from other cultures the opportunity to cover up a little more should they so desire.
Marking twenty years since the Mabo decision
Today, it is twenty years since since native title was first recognised in Australia and the doctrine of terra nullius was rejected by the High Court.
Go help same-sex marriage become a reality in Australia
It’s a super quick House of Representatives survey!
The 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival
This is the 44th monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together December 2011 feminist posts from writers living in Australia and New Zealand.
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.
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.
Reminder: submit now for the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival!
Reminder: submit now (by Jan 2 at the latest) for the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival!
Submissions must be of posts of feminist interest by writers from Australia and New Zealand that were published in December. Submissions are due on 2 January at the latest, but the earlier the better!
Interested in women in open tech and culture? AdaCamp Melbourne wants you!
My non-profit organisation, the Ada Initiative, wants to go full steam ahead into 2012, and we’re holding an AdaCamp event in Melbourne to kick off the year!
AdaCamp will be a one day “unconference” (that is, it will have free-form sessions scheduled by participants) focussed on furthering women’s work in open technology and culture. It will be held on Saturday January 14 in Melbourne, some travel funding is available.
Homophobia and racism: the Australian media prove they can do two things at once
There was a bit of a controversy on Sunday when The Daily Telegraph, which is apparently still passing for a newspaper, put up a story called “PM Julia Gillard and Senator Pansy Wong – a reluctant embrace of an emotive issue; gay marriage”. Here’s the story in question. Let’s be very kind and move past [...]
Come one! Come all! The 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival heading for Hoyden!
As foretold in the prophecy! I am hosting the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival at Hoyden.
Submissions must be of posts of feminist interest by writers from Australia and New Zealand that were published in December. Submissions are due on 2 January at the latest, but the earlier the better!
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