June 2014 – Page 2 – Hoyden About Town

The 73rd Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

By Chally on 2014-06-10

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

Otterday! And Open Thread

By lauredhel on 2014-06-07 • ( 31 )

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? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

Vale Doc Neeson

By tigtog on 2014-06-06 • ( 4 )

I see an old post of mine about the Angels and their lead singer Doc Neeson and a certain song is getting some traffic over the last few days since his death. Looking at pictures, I can still feel that amazing energy he put into his performance.

Quote Of The Day: Think Of All The Supervillains

By tigtog on 2014-06-06 • ( 1 )

I love the Bad Chart Thursday posts on Skepchick, which mock various exercises in unjustifed extrapolation from datasets compromised by unacknowledged confounding factors or otherwise lacking rigor. This quote comes from the latest:

Quick Hit: Beautiful portraits

By Mindy on 2014-06-05

Huffpost has an article up on a series of portraits done by Chloe Aftel of agender teens. The photography is stunning and the teens themselves are lovely. Chloe has captured that fragility of teens without stripping them of their determination… Read More ›

Signal Boosting: Mass Closure of Women’s Refuges in NSW

By tigtog on 2014-06-03 • ( 3 )

40 years of women’s rights will be undone in June 2014 when many of Sydney’s specialist women’s refuges are forced to close. Under the NSW Government’s new tenders, women-only services were not allowed to tender for women-only services.