2011 – Page 34 – Hoyden About Town

Black and white photograph of a rock festival audience crowd

Signal boost: help Skud preserve and disseminate knowledge of Australian music

By Mary on 2011-07-06 • ( 1 )

Skud is launching a project to preserve the history of Australian music in as open a manner as possible. Can you help?

Signal Boost: postcard against victim-blaming

By tigtog on 2011-07-04 • ( 4 )

This is a terrific campaign against rape myths, and Rape Crisis Scotland have made this downloadable as a print-quality PDF:

Femmostroppo Reader July 3, 2011

By tigtog on 2011-07-03 • ( 8 )

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!

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2011-07-02 • ( 33 )

Today’s otter was snapped in Nebraska by flickr user Shanna Mae. 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?

Photograph of Carolyn DeWaegeneire by Simon Alekna (source: Sydney Morning Herald)

Graeme Reeves received 2 to 3.5 year sentence

By Mary on 2011-07-01 • ( 9 )

Trigger warning for medical and sexual violence.

Graeme Reeves has been convicted of indecent assault of two patients and maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on another, and sentenced. Survivor Carolyn DeWaegeneire condemns his sentence.

BTW: “invasion”

By tigtog on 2011-06-30 • ( 7 )

I put up a post on LP about it yesterday. The discussion is mostly better than I feared.

QOTD: Louis CK on his HBO nudity

By tigtog on 2011-06-30 • ( 2 )

When I hired Pam, I didn’t tell her she was going to be doing anything like that. It wasn’t supposed to be that kind of show. So I said, “You know what, I’ll do it.”