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• Open Letter to Melbourne Queer Film Festival attendees

  By Guest Poster on 2011-02-25 • ( 18 )

  This guest post is from Jonathan Williams, a member of the MQFF trans selection panel, a body which did NOT select one particular trans-themed film which has been included in the festival program.

• What gay marriage opponents have in common with gay French philosophers

  By Guest Poster on 2010-12-22 • ( 2 )

  Fear and bigotry exist for a reason, so I looked at their arguments a little more closely. And I amused to discover that, beneath the surface, the view that marriage-is-between-a-man-and-a-woman-and-a-man-and-a-woman-only can probably be made sense of by the work of a famously gay, leftie French philosopher. Michel Foucault.

  In fact, when it came to the political logic underlying their arguments, Foucault and gay marriage opponents had a fair bit in common.

• On Ophelia, Who Never Got to Be a Hoyden

  By Guest Poster on 2010-11-03 • ( 19 )

  The casual use of violence perpetrated on the female body in telling a story about a man’s experience will not be news to most people here, but it might be enlightening to look at it in the context of what is often considered to be one of the great works of humanist literature, one that still carries more cultural weight than possibly any other, and is often claimed to speak to all people, everywhere.

• Guest Hoyden: Remembering The Lost

  By Guest Poster on 2010-10-30 • ( 12 )

  I’m just going to say again what I’ve said lots of times before – we need to construct the rituals and the social rules for talking about and publicly recognising miscarriage, still birth and infant death.

• Friday Hoydens: That’s a pretty big teaspoon

  By Guest Poster on 2010-09-17 • ( 6 )

  Some Israeli women wield the teaspoon of civil disobedience and smuggle Palestinian women out of the West Bank for a day at the beach.

• How to wrangle a new paradigm

  By Guest Poster on 2010-08-27 • ( 5 )

  I’m particularly intrigued by the growing hysteria echoing out of Murdoch’s media outlets. Dealing with independents who aren’t pavlovian in their response to the media’s narratives must come as something of a shock.

• God Does Not Make Good Policy

  By Guest Poster on 2010-08-20 • ( 5 )

  Today’s Guest Hoyden is regular commentor Grendel, who normally blogs about coffee over at Cafe Grendel, and who has just taken up poliblogging at new group blog Distinctly Disgruntled, where this post was originally published. There are a number of… Read More ›

• Bigotry And The Fight For Marriage Equality

  By Guest Poster on 2010-08-16 • ( 5 )

  Today I attended a rally for Marriage Equality in my city.[…] But that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is to discuss August 13th, what has been declared by The Australian Family Association and The National Marriage Coalition as National Marriage Day.

• Tony Abbott Makes Rape Joke, MSM frames it as “sexist gaffe”. Guest Post by Napalmnacey

  By Guest Poster on 2010-08-03 • ( 64 )

  On a day that the Coalition was devoting to winning the women’s vote, Mr Abbott questioned whether when Julia Gillard says no, she really means it.

• Just Say Yay

  By Guest Poster on 2010-06-28 • ( 17 )

  Today’s guest poster is long time blogger ThirdCat, aka Tracy Crisp, a South Australian writer and comedian currently living in Abu Dhabi.