2011 – Page 26 – Hoyden About Town

Femmostroppo Reader August 22, 2011

By tigtog on 2011-08-23 • ( 7 )

Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

Viva la Vulva (possibly NSFW)

By hatbluemilk on 2011-08-21 • ( 27 )

Hey, wanna get all ‘1970’s Germain Greer’ feminism and analyse female genital art together? Oh, don’t be such a kill-joy, yes you do. This is an interesting art piece. The sculptor, Jamie McCartney has created a piece called The Great… Read More ›

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2011-08-20 • ( 43 )

tinheap captured this beautiful otter in a Münster zoo, and shared it on flickr.

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? […] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

Is the Genie out of the bottle?

By Mindy on 2011-08-19 • ( 8 )

Have we reached a tipping point in Australian politics? Will the protests end with a change of government?

Thursday Cheezburger – The Eyes

By Mindy on 2011-08-18 • ( 3 )

The Eyes! The Eyes I tell you.

Too sexy for breastfeeding?

By hatbluemilk on 2011-08-17 • ( 20 )

Image credit. (Some Not Suitable For Work links included in this post). Not long after her baby was born, Madison Young, an adult actor – also an artist, film director, gallery director, and activist – put on an art show… Read More ›

Congratulations Sensei Fukuda!

By tigtog on 2011-08-17 • ( 3 )

This news made me squeal like David Tennant being offered cake – last week Sensei Keiko Fukuda became the first ever woman to earn a 10th degree black belt in judo.

Tiny violin/fiddle less than half an inch long "Chen, of Beijing, China, took seven years to craft the tiny instrument from 30 separate parts with strings thinner than a human hair."

When one’s right to dissent is so terribly, terribly suppressed…

By tigtog on 2011-08-16 • ( 3 )

…that one can only manage to get one’s views published in the opinion pages of a national broadsheet, one knows that the nation is in a parlous state of enforced conformity indeed.