September 2012 – Page 2 – Hoyden About Town

a winged monkey sculpture crouched against a chimney stack

Feminism 101 Blog: Cyberbullies 101 Part 1

By tigtog on 2012-09-23 • ( 6 )

I’d appreciate some feedback and especially additional tips and tricks that I have overlooked in my latest #FF101 post | Cyberbullies 101: Part 1 – muffling their megaphones

ObEquinox Photo: Happy Spring, fellow Southrons!

By tigtog on 2012-09-23 • ( 6 )

Scheduled for the exact minute of the September Equinox BECAUSE I CAN.

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2012-09-22 • ( 39 )

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

A black woman crouches to speak to a kneeling white man, both in late Victorian costume..

Friday Hoyden: Paulina in The Winter’s Tale

By Anna on 2012-09-21 • ( 4 )

Paulina is one of Shakespeare’s lesser known, but most vibrant and admirable mouthy women.

Moral panic stifles useful dialogue on social media “trolling”

By Guest Poster on 2012-09-21 • ( 7 )

From work I’ve been doing for a forthcoming book on new media and Australian politics, I have some useful data that may partially inform this discussion in the form of Facebook wallposts from 600 Australians collected before this recent debate took off (late 2011). In recent days I’ve reanalysed this dataset to shed some light on the treatment of women in the social media space.

Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

Media Circus: out of step

By tigtog on 2012-09-21 • ( 7 )

Our leaders are cynically dodging behind parliamentary procedure to avoid properly representing their electorates, while another damning Aboriginal death in custody report raises scarcely a blip on the national radar. As usual for media circus threads, please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.

Femmostroppo Reader, September 21st 2012

By tigtog on 2012-09-21 • ( 1 )

Marriage equality, the working poor, mental illness, gender roles and more. Sadly missing is discussion of Australia’s ongoing disregard of black deaths in custody. items of interest encountered recently in my feed-reader or via twitter. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.