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  • Whoydensday: Ace (Guest Post from Chally)

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    I don’t believe you’ve met my young friend Ace, an expert in calorification, incineration, carbonization, and inflammation.
    -The Doctor, The Happiness Patrol

    Dorothy McShane of Perivale, UK, better known as Ace, was the Doctor’s companion in Doctor Who from 1987 until the show’s cancellation in 1989. She was young. She was independent. She was tough. She was smart. She was a glorious feminist character.

  • Guest post by Emma: Public Space

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    Emma_in_oz has identified as a feminist for fifteen years. (And as an SF fan, and as a medievalist, and as a fan of crafts, and…) Emma_in_oz is a single mother by choice – Pearl is nine months old. ~~~ I… Read More ›

  • Guest post by Ruzawench: “Fat and breastfeeding? The amphetamine script’s in the mail.”

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    This guest post is from Ruzawench, a FOAF of Lauredhel’s. She is posting her experience as a comment on how unexpected weight gain is treated by the medical community, and as a warning to other women. ~~~ I had a… Read More ›

  • Damnit, dykes, you’re so good at sport but would it kill you to wear frickin’ heels? (Guest post by bluemilk)

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    This guest post is by blue milk.

    annarawsonImagine the disappointment. You’re a female athlete, who is talented enough to have turned professional a couple of years ago, and you’re also a gorgeous model – you should be everywhere, you should be raking in the dollars, but much as you love your sport it is kinda pulling you down.. its reputation isn’t as sexy as you are.

    You’re Anna Rawson and you play golf and damn it, you expect the sisterhood to understand your dilemma because it isn’t fair, men’s golf gets all the attention and all the money. Why is that?

  • A women’s safe house in Ngukurr and feelings of inadequacy

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    It looks like a move towards safety for women and children in NT…But while domestic violence is increasing, its refuges for women and children receive about one-third of the average funding for other similar services in NSW, the Orana Far West Women’s Safe Houses Project report says….So, particularly with regard to violence, the intervention and safe houses, what am I missing here and what would you like to add?

  • Friday Hoyden: Yoko Ono

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    When Tigtog and Lauredhel asked me to introduce Yoko Ono as a Friday Hoyden, I was thrilled. I’m an avid reader of Hoyden About Town, and if anyone deserves hoyden status, I’ve always thought that it should certainly be Yoko.

    I was asked to write the introduction because of my recent five-part blog series that analyzed Yoko Ono as cultural phenomenon from a feminist perspective.

  • Friday Hoyden: Nancy Bird Walton, by Guest Hoyden Chally

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    Nancy Bird Walton, AO, OBE, DStJ, Dame of the Knights of Malta, was a legendary pilot and about as hoydenish as it gets. At age 19, she became the first Australian female pilot to receive her commercial license. She went on to be instrumental in running early outback air ambulance services in New
    South Wales and commandant of the Women’s Air Training Corps during WWII as well as founder and long-time president of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association. I’m tearing up as I tell you that she died on Tuesday afternoon in her home in Mosman, northern Sydney.

  • Ah, trusty alcoholism

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    Author: fuckpoliteness   So…my dad’s an alcoholic. We’re not supposed to discuss it. Secrets are big in my family. He hides alcohol, and goes for ‘walks’ on weekends (Super Stealthy Secret Code for getting on the sauce) from which he… Read More ›

  • The impossible beauty of Jessica Alba

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    Author: fuckpoliteness, who lives in Sydney and wants the world to make more sense So I saw Jessica Alba’s Campari Calender shots. And wow. They are gorgeous photos and she looks stunning. The next day I saw a similar shot… Read More ›

  • Oh ffs are they serious?

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    Mindy, regular commentor Ralph Magazine planned to give away free inflatable boobs with their next issue. Unfortunately the shipment seems to have been lost at sea. How sad. On another topic, I really shouldn’t have let myself watch the SBS… Read More ›