It’s hard to dislike the charming Otter Story website. The UK illustrator responsible says he’s working on a book, so keep your eyes peeled. ~~~ Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is… Read More ›
Month: November 2009
2 Melbourne Labradors need a good home
I received this as a forwarded email, so I’m keeping personal details unpublished but will pass the email details of anyone genuinely interested along to the original author, who has to move overseas and cannot take them along. Cookie and Coco are just 3 years old and deeply attached to each other, so they desperately want to place them together. They are also accustomed to small children.
Friday Hoyden: Sister Donna Quinn
Sister Donna Quinn, a Dominican nun, has been involved in pro-choice activism in the United States for many years. From escorting women into clinics and protesting anti-choice legislation to fighting for women’s access to all levels of the religious hierarchy,… Read More ›
Dream Home?
This isn’t my dream home. I’m not sure what I’d do with six kitchens and twelve toilets, apart from endless cleaning [can you imagine the mess the kids could make?]. I know for certain that I’d feel weird sending guests… Read More ›
Thursday Cheezburger: Magic Kittehs
Today’s kitty theme is: Magic! Runner-up: Post your own favourite Magic LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only… Read More ›
When Emma Thompson follows through on this promise…
(to remove her name from the petition supporting Roman Polanski) then I’m adding her picture to the sidebar Hoydens collection.
Quickhit: “defining moments of the noughties”?
This Top 100 is a British list, and it’s from the UK Daily Telegraph (“that fascist rag” is always appended to any mention of it by my Welsh DB), but it’s still an interesting idea. What do you agree with,… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Reader – November 4, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Let's Get a Few Things Straight, Shall We? – “Don’t get me wrong: I do not,… Read More ›
Public Transport Authority takes crip-blaming to a new level
Last week, we discussed the effective curfew for people with mobility disabilities effected by the nighttime closure of lifts to pedestrian bridges over busy roads. Today, this story appeared in a Perth community newspaper: Station Frustration Victoria Park councillor Claire… Read More ›
Reclamation
I finally finished another long post for FWD/Forward (Feminists with Disabilities), a rewrite of a Hoyden post about linguistic reclamation that I made long ago. Reclamation: thoughts from a fat hairy uppity lame bitch And just for fun, I made… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 