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Friday Hoyden: Sady Doyle

By tigtog on 2012-05-11 • ( 10 )

Sady Doyle from the fantastic Tiger Beatdown blog gave Hoyden About Town a shout-out in a piece she wrote for In These Times – Blogging Sisterhood: How feminist blogs saved my life. So here’s a shout-out back, to one of my favourite writers!

Obama interview: “I think same sex couples should be able to get married”

By tigtog on 2012-05-10 • ( 15 )

Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and, frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!

By tigtog on 2012-05-03 • ( 1 )

The iconic writer scolds the superrich (including himself—and Mitt Romney) for not giving back, and warns of a Kingsian apocalyptic scenario if inequality is not addressed in America.

Quick Hit: Links I’m loving today

By Mindy on 2012-05-01 • ( 2 )

Links I am loving today.

Friday Hoyden: Joanna Russ

By Guest Poster on 2012-04-27 • ( 3 )

Guest post from Tansy Rayner Roberts: Joanna Russ is one of the mighty legends of the science fiction field that everyone needs to know about. As well as writing many important novels and short stories, she was a brutal literary critic, a brilliant academic, an unflinching feminist, and a devastatingly articulate commentator on gender, not only in science fiction but in the history of culture.

Friday Hoyden: Kathrine Switzer

By Mindy on 2012-04-20 • ( 4 )

In 1967 an angry race official tried to stop Kathrine Switzer from running the Boston Marathon. He failed, she changed her society.

Roseanne Barr wants the US presidential debate back on topic #righteousrant

By tigtog on 2012-04-18 • ( 4 )

Roseanne Barr on Ann and Mitt Romney and the Mommy Wars: “why bring out this fake issue again now? Could it be to divert the conversation from the continued restrictions being placed on women’s reproductive rights and make us forget that both parties are socialists for their own causes…?” – and Daily Beast puts this righteous rant from a woman who is running for POTUS in the Entertainment section.