[Image credit: NT Labor Party] Via Aboriginal Art & Culture, the full text of Marion Scrymgour’s Charles Perkins Oration from last week. Scrymgour is the first female Aboriginal Minister in an Australian parliament. Whose national emergency?“¨Caboolture and Kirribili? or Milikapiti… Read More ›
Year: 2007
International Day of Action on the NT Invasion, November 17
From Fire Fly (at She Who Stumbles), the WOC blog, Vox ex Machina, Critical Bloggers, Automatic Preference, and Ubuntu: Call for Solidarity with Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory Stop the Invasion! International Day of Action, November 17th In June… Read More ›
The gendered language of snark: help a Hoyden out
“Drama queen”. “Attention whore”. “Pearl clutching”. “Flounce”. “Hysterical”. These are all insults based on the assigned femininity of the target (or on campness, a flavour of femininity). And that femininity is assumed to be an inherently negative characteristic. Our language… Read More ›
Friday Hoydens: Peggy A. Whitson and Pamela A. Melroy
[Image source: OC Register] This is the first time in history that two female mission commanders have been in orbit simultaneously – and they’ve now met in space. The New York Times reports : A hug today between the commanders… Read More ›
Busy day yesterday
Lots of things going on, panicking clients and minor domestic urgencies not least of all, but at least I got a walk in Centennial Park and some photos even if I didn’t get any writing done. He didn’t want to… Read More ›
Scorn as Art
I posted recently about the art of crafting political invective, in finding just the right term to throw at a political adversary to sink them in the public estimation, and how it’s an art that’s largely gone down hill in… Read More ›
And we think we’ve got healthcare problems?
Read La Lubu’s fabulous post at Feministe on her experiences navigating the healthcare maze in the US.
So that’s why it’s annoyed me so much
I’m not the only person to be annoyed over the years by the egregious overuse of the term “paradigm shift”. I knew people were misusing the term, but not having actually read Kuhn’s seminal work wherein he coined the term,… Read More ›
Legal changes to sexual assault trials in NSW?
Peter Kemp, a legal practitioner in NSW, sent me this link, noting that it has significant implications on the right to a fair trial and that there are many points of view to be considered. BARRISTERS will be refused permission… Read More ›
Pond’s White Beauty.
More from Unilever, makers of the Dove range and pushers of smoothified, hairless, almost-average-sized, cellulite-free “self-esteem” alongside Slim-fast and Axe/Lynx: Did you know that Pond’s “White Beauty” cream, pushed in India, Korea and Malaysia, is part of Unilever’s “international stable… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 