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• Sunday writer: Jennifer Egan

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-06-04 • ( 6 )

  

  I have chosen the Pulitzer-prize winning writer, Jennifer Egan for this Sunday because she has just published a short story/poem on Twitter and the writing is brilliant and the medium is perfect. As others have noted, it is kind of… Read More ›

• Tell me again how women are their own worst enemy

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-06-02 • ( 2 )

  

  Here at BBC News is that typical ‘women are their own worst enemy’ article. It is conveniently titled, “Are women their own worst enemy when it comes to the top job?” Research compiled by BBC News shows women are under-represented… Read More ›

• Sunday Singalong: Patti Smith

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-27 • ( 2 )

  

  Patti Smith is amazing. She’s pretty much written the path for women singer-songwriters, artists and poets and she has done it so well that men even want to be her. Because who doesn’t want to be Patti Smith, she’s humble… Read More ›

• A poster appearing around Brisbane

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-23 • ( 3 )

  

    Text from the spoof newspaper article poster that has started anonymously appearing around Brisbane, Queensland: DEMOLITION WILL HONOUR SIR JOH BEJELKE-PETERSEN An unnamed source within the Brisbane electorate today accused Queensland Premier Campbell Newman’s LNP government of secretly planning… Read More ›

• Sunday Singalong: Donna Summer

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-20 • ( 8 )

  

  So sad to hear she died this week, reportedly of cancer at the age of 63. Her biggest hits were the disco anthems of “Love to Love You Baby”, “Hot Stuff”, “Bad Girls”, “No More Tears”, “MacArthur Park”, and my very favourite, “I Feel Love”. She had an incredible mezzo-soprano voice.

• That frickin’ ‘mummy homework’ thing

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-05-19 • ( 55 )

  

  More of the invisible work of motherhood. From here at the Huffington Post. For the uninitiated, Mommy Homework is the bane of many mothers’ lives. While perhaps intended to be an opportunity for bonding between parent and student, it instead… Read More ›

• Sunday Singalong: The Breeders

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-22 • ( 2 )

  

  Once upon a time there was this perfect punk rock band and it was The Pixies. Then The Pixies broke up, partly because Kim Deal kept getting side-lined in the band and partly because Frank Black had ‘temperamental genius’ staked… Read More ›

• Naomi Wolf on the problems with Western feminism

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-15 • ( 8 )

  

  This is a very interesting article from Naomi Wolf about the future of global feminism and where she sees Western feminism as having gone wrong. It’s very optimistic about global feminism but not so much about Western feminism. To be… Read More ›

• Sunday Singalong: M.I.A.

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-15 • ( 1 )

  

  To prove that I am not just about the 90’s, here’s M.I.A. for Sunday Singalong. M.I.A. is the thrillingly clever Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam: a British musician, painter, and director of Sri Lankan descent. She readily incorporates politics into her music… Read More ›

• Sunday Singalong: Salt n Pepa

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-04-08 • ( 2 )

  

  Salt n Pepa’s hip hop songs were filled to the brim with feminist messages about self-respect and sexual autonomy from “Let’s Talk About Sex” to “Ain’t Nuthin But A She Thing” and their songs were sooo catchy.