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• Ricky Writes Letters: Advocacy is Inaccessible for Some People With Disabilities

  By Guest Poster on 2008-07-11 • ( 5 )

  [Shirt reads: “I don’t mind the able-bodied, so long as they act disabled in public.” Shirt is from NoPity] Today’s Guest Hoyden is Ricky Buchanan of Not Done Living. Ricky’s Livejournal is here. She also runs ATMac, an information site… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Peg Bracken

  By Guest Poster on 2008-07-11 • ( 4 )

  Guest post by Helen on the Cast Iron Balcony. Most people know Hillary Knight’s wonderful illustrations from Eloise, the little hotel-dwelling spoiled-rotten urban girl. For me, his line drawings take me back to my childhood in Adelaide, where my mother,… Read More ›

• Women’s Mags and Rubber Bands

  By Guest Poster on 2008-07-10 • ( 6 )

  We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. ~~~ Ok – ENOUGH! The other day I went to a doctors surgery and I read through a copy of a “womens” magazine. You… Read More ›

• Two Posts on The Gruen Transfer

  By Guest Poster on 2008-07-09 • ( 3 )

  We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. ~~~ Look, I should say up front I am a little grouchy of late over feeling like as a woman I am being ‘locked… Read More ›

• How to Have a Succesful Mainstream Newspaper Blog

  By Guest Poster on 2008-07-08 • ( 18 )

  We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. Fuckpoliteness is a blog born out of frustration over society’s obsessive commitment to formal/semantic politeness – to the empty vision of ‘manners’ in which… Read More ›

• The Last Train out of Sydney

  By Guest Poster on 2008-07-07 • ( 13 )

  We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. Fuckpoliteness is a blog born out of frustration over society’s obsessive commitment to formal/semantic politeness – to the empty vision of ‘manners’ in which… Read More ›

• Ladies Products and The Gruen Transfer

  By Guest Poster on 2008-07-03 • ( 17 )

  This guest post is from Mindy, a regular commentor here and a contributor to the For Battle! group blog. The Gruen Transfer last night revealed that men in advertising still don’t understand ‘lady bits’. Jane Caro did her best to… Read More ›

• Photo-correspondence from a Hoyden Abroad

  By Guest Poster on 2008-06-09 • ( 11 )

  Hoydenizen Orlando had occasion to wander around the London Borough of Islington recently, and saw something that made her think of us.

• Follow up on NSW RSPCA Campaign: In which the NSW RSPCA continues to see Violated Women as a means to an end

  By Guest Poster on 2008-05-11 • ( 7 )

  Our Guest Hoyden author is regular commentor Su. In April Lauredhel blogged the NSW RSPCA Community Service Announcement that contained scenes of a man beating and kicking a woman, overdubbed with audio of a yelping dog. The justification for the… Read More ›

• Friday Hoydens: The Suffragettes In Court [Guest post by baroquestar]

  By Guest Poster on 2008-05-02 • ( 5 )

  Today’s guest post is swiped, with permission, 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… Read More ›