2011 – Page 60 – Hoyden About Town

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By hatbluemilk on 2011-02-23 • ( 2 )

From the photographic series, The Girl Who Loves to Levitate by Natsumi Hayashi. “We are all surrounded by social stress as we are bound by the forces of earth’s gravity,” Natsumi says when asked why she took on the series…. Read More ›

Whoydensday: Vale Nicholas Courtney (1929-2011)

By Beppie on 2011-02-23 • ( 9 )

Raise a glass tonight for Nicholas Courtney, who played UNIT’s Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge Stewart in Doctor Who, appearing with the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctors, and also in a 2008 episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. He… Read More ›

Gorgeous BAFTA artwork

By tigtog on 2011-02-23 • ( 1 )

BAFTA apparently commission a different graphic artist every year to come up with 5 posters in their own style for each of the Best Picture nominees, and they use these 5 images as covers for these brochures that they hand out to all attendees.

Femmostroppo Reader February 23, 2011

By tigtog on 2011-02-23

Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

Joshua's height is measured (Life at 3, ABC)

Life at 3: obesity

By Mary on 2011-02-22 • ( 2 )

Life at 3: Fighting Fat. Ooo boy. It probably wasn’t ever going to be good, was it? Good food, bad food, headless fatties and children in marginalised families reduced to obesity risks.

Open Thread – Christchurch Earthquake

By Mindy on 2011-02-22 • ( 18 )

Today Christchurch was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. This is an open thread for discussions of the Christchurch Earthquake. Any NZ feminists/ commenters who want to check in and let us know they are okay, please do.

Finding people, helping out, donations: please see Sarah Robot’s extensive links.

WA and QLD brace for more severe weather

By tigtog on 2011-02-22 • ( 2 )

It’s seasons like this that got our ancestors started with the thunder god worship.

Life at 1: breastfeeding

By Mary on 2011-02-20 • ( 13 )

The longitudinal television program Life at 5, following from Life at 1 and Life at 3, is now showing. The whole thing has my Hoyden antenna up a bit, so I am going to post a few discussions of some of the aspects of the show I was less impressed by. Today: breastfeeding.