February 2013 – Page 3 – Hoyden About Town

Grumpy Cat does Valentines Day

By Mindy on 2013-02-14 • ( 8 )

I love Grumpy Cat. I love Grumpy Cat memes. So in defiance of the commercialisation of Valentines Day because I am a tight arse because I like Grumpy Cat here is an Open Thread to get it all off your… Read More ›

5 years since the Apology

By Mindy on 2013-02-13 • ( 4 )

Link round up for the 5th Anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generation [edited ~M]

a silver monkey bares its fangs aggressively

Proving the point: harassers attempt to hijack #TellAFeministThankyou hashtag

By tigtog on 2013-02-13 • ( 12 )

I started #tellafeministthankyou b/c of feminists harassed on Twitter. Now ppl are using the tag to harass feminists. Prove the point more! — Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) February 12, 2013

Happy Darwin Day, fellow mutants

By tigtog on 2013-02-12 • ( 2 )

Charles Darwin was born 204 years ago today, and the International Darwin Day Foundation uses February 12th each year to celebrate Darwin, Science and Humanity. In November it will be 154 years since the publication of his paradigm-shattering work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Media Circus: Pope resigns edition

By tigtog on 2013-02-12 • ( 29 )

Well, all sorts of things are going to fly under the media’s radar this week, aren’t they? What else has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

An assortment of pumpkins in different colours. One has been halved and a cleaver is stuck deeply into its flesh.

Cleaver time!

By tigtog on 2013-02-11 • ( 4 )

Because pumpkin soup.

The 57th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

By Chally on 2013-02-11

All the details on the latest edition, and how to submit to the next one!

Adventures of a novice* Nook owner

By Mindy on 2013-02-10 • ( 12 )

Fun and games with a Nook.

Otterday! And Open Thread

By lauredhel on 2013-02-09 • ( 23 )

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?

Sepia photo portrait of Marion Mahony, in her 30s, seated, wearing an artist's smock.

Friday Hoydens: Margaret MacDonald and Marion Mahony

By Anna on 2013-02-08 • ( 3 )

Two of the most influential figures in modern aesthetics spent decades as footnotes to the biographies of their husbands. Margaret MacDonald, wife of Charles Rennie Macintosh, and Marion Mahony, wife of Walter Burley Griffin, have in recent times begun to be acknowledged as the great artists they were.