Life – Page 23 – Hoyden About Town

What this election says about women getting themselves pregnant

By hatbluemilk on 2013-08-30 • ( 14 )

I see that as long as any kind of social transfer is involved rich women are as capable of “getting themselves pregnant” as teenage girls are claimed to be. Because conception is something that women and girls do to themselves,… Read More ›

Ada Lovelace woodcut engraving-style portrait

For my birthday you could, if you like, donate to the Ada Initiative

By tigtog on 2013-08-29 • ( 10 )

This week I turned 50. Various nice people are doing nice things for me, which is nice.

If you too would like to do something that will make me feel warm and fuzzy …

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2013-08-24 • ( 20 )

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?

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2013-08-17 • ( 15 )

Aerial view of Sydney harbour and surrounds from the north

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!

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2013-08-10 • ( 9 )

Rifts getting riftier: naming and shaming the harassers

By tigtog on 2013-08-08 • ( 9 )

Well, this got interesting fast. The floodgates appear to be opening in the atheoskeptosphere with regard to people deciding that keeping names out of the we-need-anti-harassment-policies discussion wasn’t doing much good for effecting change.

While we’re talking about workplace and convention harassment incidents (particularly amongst the groups for which conventions are also workplaces), I’ve been meaning to link to this excellent post from last month about why conventions are harassment hotspots (there’s Science! on this).