Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
history
those who do not know are doomed to repeat etc, besides it’s fascinating
Links Post
Link round up.
Shakespeare’s Preoccupations
I thought it would be fun to share my list of things I have noticed Shakespeare does repeatedly, and ask if you have any others.
#AWW 2013 – Challenge completed
Challenge Completed: Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013
#AWW 2013: Mum Shirl book review
Mum Shirl is the autobiography of Shirly Smith an Aboriginal activist and social worker. Just one of the books I am reading for #AWW2013.
Aiming to please everybody won’t work
Feminism that prioritises popularity over its own integrity will necessarily fail, as it is bound to reproduce the very problems it is fighting against.
Those who do not know their internet history are doomed to repeat it, clearly.
Datum the First: On April 8, 2007 Tim O’Reilly wrote a Draft Blogger’s Code Of Conduct …In the nearly seven years since, many similar initiatives have been proposed.
5 years since the Apology
Link round up for the 5th Anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generation [edited ~M]
Happy Darwin Day, fellow mutants
Charles Darwin was born 204 years ago today, and the International Darwin Day Foundation uses February 12th each year to celebrate Darwin, Science and Humanity. In November it will be 154 years since the publication of his paradigm-shattering work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Friday Hoydens: Margaret MacDonald and Marion Mahony
Two of the most influential figures in modern aesthetics spent decades as footnotes to the biographies of their husbands. Margaret MacDonald, wife of Charles Rennie Macintosh, and Marion Mahony, wife of Walter Burley Griffin, have in recent times begun to be acknowledged as the great artists they were.
Hoyden About Town 