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• Whose real world?

  By Guest Poster on 2007-07-04 • ( 16 )

  Posted by Helen.     Where I live, our kids have five weeks holidays from just before Christmas to the end of January. They have two weeks off in April, two in July, and two in September/October. I’ve run out… Read More ›

• Are you in on the joke?

  By Guest Poster on 2007-06-30 • ( 4 )

  Guest post by blue milk (who knew there was so much to say on feminist motherhood?) where this is being cross-posted. Spare a thought for advertising executives. Imagine trying to write a TV advertisement for chicken? Actually wait it gets… Read More ›

• Fat a Greater Threat than Drug Abuse, Smoking, or Alcohol

  By Guest Poster on 2007-06-30 • ( 16 )

  Guest post by Kate Harding (and cross-posted a couple places) So say 40.4% of people 18-24, according to The Brogan Survey. Asked to rank obesity, smoking, drugs and alcohol in order of perceived “greatest threat to public health,” most people… Read More ›

• By any other name?

  By Guest Poster on 2007-06-29 • ( 17 )

  Guest post by sajbrfem. Fat acceptance has recently beeped on my radar, despite living the majority of my life one or two dress sizes outside a convenient mainstream shopping experience, I had not been aware of this movement until now…. Read More ›

• In which I judge a book by its cover

  By Guest Poster on 2007-06-29 • ( 2 )

  Guest post by Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony. Thanks to Tigtog for honouring me with an invitation to guest post at Hoyden while she whizzes down mountains. Recently, the folks at IBTP have been bemoaning the pinkification of everything… Read More ›

• It must have been the uniforms

  By Guest Poster on 2007-05-21 • ( 4 )

  Todays guest poster is Ohmykozy, who lives with her family in Sydney’s western suburbs and doesn’t take crap from anybody Picture this: teenage girls out for the day, accused of shoplifting and taken aside by security guards wanting to ask… Read More ›

• It’s not the empty street that causes rape

  By Guest Poster on 2007-05-05 • ( 13 )

  Today’s Guest Post is a crosspost from JoAnne Schmitz of Jupiter9. Edited to add: a link from Pandagon to this particular post was actually meant to link to this other post on passive/active voice by Lauredhel instead. Please do read… Read More ›

• Knowing Your Market

  By Guest Poster on 2007-05-02 • ( 5 )

  Today’s Guest Poster “Little Jim” is a masked IT professional and blogger While the outside perception is that it is still a male domain (and indeed some segments of the industry are very much like a post office), within the… Read More ›