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• Open Father’s Day thread

  By tigtog on 2009-09-06 • ( 11 )

  How did your father help or hinder your feminist consciousness developing as you were growing up? Do they accept your feminist convictions now?

• New Hoyden authors! and new Down Under Feminist Carnival!

  By tigtog on 2009-09-06 • ( 5 )

  Not all of our new authors will be posting here often, seeing as some have theses and dissertations that they are (meant to be) prioritising in their writing time. We eagerly await their forays into bloggerly procrastination here whenever the mood strikes them.

• Welcome to the new Hoyden habitat

  By tigtog on 2009-09-05 • ( 10 )

  Enjoy! I did originally have a new look ready to go, but I accidentally overwrote those files, didn’t I? It will appear soon though.

• Batten down the hatches, database port ahead

  By tigtog on 2009-09-05 • ( 6 )

  OK, the lovely and talented Mary is helping me port the Hoyden database to a new net home. It will have a new domain name and everything! But I need to close off commenting now in order to make that… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 5, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-05

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• And now for your regular slug of GOP WTF: how they hell do they sleep at night?

  By tigtog on 2009-09-04 • ( 3 )

  Apparently, POTUS telling kids to work hard in school is part of Obama’s ‘socialist agenda’ – I shit you not.

• The McCafferys want others to use their story about vaccination

  By tigtog on 2009-09-03 • ( 16 )

  In February this year, the McCafferys welcomed a daughter to their family. Shortly afterwards, she contracted whooping cough and died in agony. Whooping cough used to be very rare when nearly everybody followed the recommended vaccination schedule.

• Quickhit: Kathryn Joyce on Shotgun Adoptions

  By tigtog on 2009-09-03 • ( 6 )

  You may remember Kathryn Joyce as the author of a powerful piece on the Quiverfull religious movement – in this article she looks at the collusion between Crisis Pregnancy Centres and adoption services, and how they coerce mothers into relinquishing… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – September 2, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-09-02 • ( 4 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. As a parent, where does your story end and theirs begin? – “so, who owns the… Read More ›

• Virtual traveling: more faves

  By tigtog on 2009-09-01 • ( 3 )

  A mosaic of the latest photos I have “favourited” in Flickr – I seem to have been in a largely monochromatic mood lately.