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A blogger who rarely updates what is supposed to be a blog about building a house. If you want to ask me about owner-building a Harkaway house email johnsonhere@bigpond.com.

• Maybe if we all went barefoot?

  By Mindy on 2013-10-04 • ( 26 )

  

  Are your shoes stopping you from buying a house?

• Quick Hit: What would it look like…

  By Mindy on 2013-09-20 • ( 2 )

  

  Policymic asks what would it look like if we turned the Daily Mail’s sexism around on men?

• Quick Hit: WTF Wikipedia

  By Mindy on 2013-09-01 • ( 8 )

  

  Warning: the following fuckwittery may make you very angry. Trigger warning for trans-misogyny. Wikipedia has decided that misgendering Chelsea Manning is more important than respecting her wishes. Although Manning’s entry acknowledges her name change and refers to her using female… Read More ›

• Why is this Gen Y’s fault?

  By Mindy on 2013-08-31 • ( 14 )

  

  Is Gen Y really responsible for these things or is this just a lazy article?

• Performing female sexuality

  By Mindy on 2013-08-26 • ( 16 )

  

  Was Miley’s VMA performance problematic or have I just missed the point?

• Sydney Femmosphere Meetup: Sunday August 18 in Enmore, come one, come all

  By Mindy on 2013-08-14 • ( 8 )

  

  There will be a Hoyden and Femmosphere meetup in Enmore on Sunday August 18 at 12 noon. See you there!

• Solidarity is for White Women Storified

  By Mindy on 2013-08-13 • ( 18 )

  

  #solidarityisforwhitewomen time for us white women to sit down, shut up and listen

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By Mindy on 2013-08-03 • ( 30 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Quick Hit – The Modesty Experiment

  By Mindy on 2013-07-18 • ( 20 )

  

  Does setting out to dress modestly for nine months give you any special insights into someone else’s culture?

• Gillard departs graciously

  By Mindy on 2013-06-27 • ( 14 )

  Julia Gillard is incredibly brave, astoundingly resilient, one of the toughest people we have seen in The Lodge. Through all the difficulties of her prime ministership she was stoic, dignified, composed, resilient. She departed in that style on Wednesday night…. Read More ›