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• Friday Hoyden: Zoe Bell

  By Guest Poster on 2008-04-04 • ( 4 )

  Guest post from Helen – thanks! Uma Thurman chats with Zoe Bell on the set of Kill Bill What hoyden wouldn’t thrill to the scene in Kill Bill 1 where Beatrix Kiddo, fighting off a hundred or so gangsters, flies… Read More ›

• Being single…stinks?

  By Guest Poster on 2008-01-05 • ( 13 )

  Today’s guest post is from baroquestar. Baroquestar is a 28 year old singing, studying, Australian museum geek with eclectic tastes in reading material. She is a solo mama to one beautiful daughter who likes dogs too, the bigger the better…. Read More ›

• Censoring the Internet: Conroy plays King Canute

  By Guest Poster on 2008-01-04 • ( 1 )

  [This is a guest post by strangedave, yoinked with permission from a comment here. David is a board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and many other things besides. Here, he addresses the current plan for mandatory, national, opt-out ISP-based internet… Read More ›

• Smug married guy, you don’t know anything about single mothers

  By Guest Poster on 2007-11-11 • ( 12 )

  I’m chuffed to welcome bluemilk back to Hoyden About Town for this guest post. Bluemilk is an Australian feminist mother, posting about life, love and mummy-myths over at bluemilk.wordpress.com ~ Lauredhel. ~~~ I was so frustrated by this discussion over… Read More ›

• Fetish Clothing for the Preschool Set: Made Of Ick

  By Guest Poster on 2007-11-10 • ( 2 )

  Many thanks to Baroquestar for this guest post, while I’m in the throes of domestic relocation. Baroquestar is a 28 year old singing, studying, Australian museum geek who likes to make trouble in her spare time. She is a solo… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Krista Scott-Dixon

  By Guest Poster on 2007-09-21 • ( 2 )

  Today’s Hoyden is courtesy of guest poster “Dita”, who is otherwise A. Lurker (and who occasionally sneaks up on me in Facebook). “Dita” lives and studies on the west coast of the USA. (~ tigtog) ____________________________________________________________ Now you’re probably scratching… Read More ›

• Lame jokes

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-08

  I’m looking at you, Pavlov… Once there was a boy who had no arms, legs, or torso. In other words – he was a head. He used to roll to school, and roll home again. He was teased unmercifully, and… Read More ›

• Stunning News

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-07 • ( 5 )

  Guest posted by Kate Harding Item: School childhood obesity programs are failing, experts say Any person looking at the published literature about these programs would have to conclude that they are generally not working, said Tom Baranowski, a pediatrics professor… Read More ›

• It’s not just the moustache

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-06 • ( 7 )

  This guest post is by Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony. Aaaaaaargh! It’s (gag) happened! Elizabeth and the dweeby, creepy, moustached Anthony have finally realised that each other is their Only Trew Love, and they’re going at it like… well,… Read More ›

• Grrrl’s own adventure

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-04 • ( 9 )

  Guest post by blue milk (who knew there was so much to say on feminist motherhood?). I don’t usually read Janet Albrechtsen because I don’t find her relevant, but today I did and now I’m inflicting her on you. Sorry…. Read More ›