Image Source: davide mio by marcuzzo Nearly One-third Of US Parents Don’t Know What To Expect Of Infants ScienceDaily (May 4, 2008) — Almost one-third of U.S. parents have a surprisingly low-level knowledge of typical infant development and unrealistic expectations… Read More ›
Life
I nearly forgot: today is International Star Wars Day
May the 4th be with you. I know, I know. ‘Tis a mightily horrendous pun. Blame silkworm.
Weekend Links: A Day In The Life
For anyone who is trying to fool themselves that the next generation is inheriting a ‘postfeminist’ world, read Hell On Hairy Legs’ summary of a day in the life of a feminist highschooler. This is what my schedule looks like… Read More ›
Blogging Against Disablism: Mental Illness, Stigmatisation, Coming Out
This is going to be short because if I try and make it a grand narrative I might chicken out of coming out. I am disabled. My disability is invisible. I have a mental illness. I have a disorder of… Read More ›
Ask Auntie Hoyden
Don’t you just love How-people-found-us search term posts? As usual, I’ve ignored all the searches about rape, paedophilia, and pictures of fat naked women, which doesn’t leave a lot. Here are a few things people have googled this week to… Read More ›
New to the blogroll or other bits of the blog
Here, Have A Kitty Amnesty Internationals Irrepressible Info campaign That new widget in the sidebar allows us to help “undermine censorship by publishing fragments of censored material” from some of the many websites around the world which have been censored… Read More ›
Then and now: on acuteness and chronicity.
I used to wait until I was sick enough to go to the doctor. Now I wait till I’m well enough to go to the doctor. I used to not mind a long wait, so long as I had plenty… Read More ›
Various topics I’d like to blog on if I had more time
So I’ll link you to other ozbloggers who’ve done it already! Edited to add: if there’s something you were intending to blog but haven’t got around to, or wish you had blogged but somebody else said it superbly first so… Read More ›
Fat is a macronutrient, not a sin: Act Three
52 Acts of Political Correctness: Act Three [original post here, 52something meme here] Yesterday the lad came home from seeing the Wizard of Oz show, and started excitedly telling me about the characters. “And the Tin Man”, he said with… Read More ›
i made u a LOLswan
but he sez iz not fud moar funny pictures Edit: Because I’m an ICHC n00b, I fubared the submission of this image for consideration for the front page. The link on the image above now takes one to an official… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 