It’s artistic Sunday and this time we bring you artist, Sarah Maple. She is the bomb.
Feminist. Muslim. Young. Smart. Funny.
arts & entertainment
music, stage, writing, comedy, cinema, telly, arts, sport, crafts, photography – all this and more!
Mamapalooza is coming to Sydney
The hugely popular Mamapalooza: Artists Celebrating Motherhood is coming to Australia – Sydney, at Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst for the week of 7-13 May 2012, and right now they’re looking for performers who are mothers – singers/poets/dancers/songwriters/actors/performance artists/stand-up etc, as… Read More ›
Whoydensday: Adventures with a Knitted TARDIS
Woolly adventures in time and space!
There really is a tumblr for everything
OMSFSM totally NSFW. Link in clear text because I don’t want anybody to say that they weren’t warned.
Sunday Singalong: Remembering Etta James
Lots of folks have been playing her ballads or her blues songs of lost love, which are classic Etta, but I especially loved her when she got playful. This is one of my favourite versions of You Can Leave Your Hat On.
Weekend womenscraft: Eat your art
I didn’t make these so I can’t give you any baking or food preparation tips, I think they look kinda self-explanatory. I’m just putting the idea out there and lettin’ you know that with a little bit of effort you… Read More ›
The Hairpin – Are women people?
Article on The Hairpin – Are women people?
And now, fatherhood as the path to feminism
This is brand new father and mega-famous rapper, Jay-Z: Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/ I didn’t think hard about using the word bitch/I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it/Now… Read More ›
2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge in summary
Jo Tamar’s summary post for the 2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge.
The reading iceberg: promoting ‘serious’ male narratives over ‘trivial’ female narratives starts at school
It took me years to realise that I had been educated to privilege men’s writing over women’s. Like a lot of girls educated in the ’70s and ’80s, I grew up reading a canon of ‘great literature’ written by men (and, primarily, for men) … At school we read almost exclusively male writers … our one woman author was Jane Austen.
Hoyden About Town 