After hearing about it on Galactic Suburbia, I’m joining the Australian Women Writers Challenge next year! In 2012 I pledge to read… oh, what the heck, I’ll go for the biggie, the Franklin-fantastic: Ten books by Australian women writers, and I’ll review four…
gender & feminism
The Humbling of a Pretty Girl
To say that the outlets reporting on this think of it as a shock or a misfortune, feel really bad for Ms Scruggs, and are inappropriately sexing it up, misses the main point. There are loads of bigger stories to care about, on economies, wars, and disease. The point is that they are latching on to the most popular plot in the world: the humbling of the pretty girl.
Interested in women in open tech and culture? AdaCamp Melbourne wants you!
My non-profit organisation, the Ada Initiative, wants to go full steam ahead into 2012, and we’re holding an AdaCamp event in Melbourne to kick off the year!
AdaCamp will be a one day “unconference” (that is, it will have free-form sessions scheduled by participants) focussed on furthering women’s work in open technology and culture. It will be held on Saturday January 14 in Melbourne, some travel funding is available.
Queen Victoria and now
Have social attitudes to female criminals changed since Queen Victoria’s time?
Come one! Come all! The 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival heading for Hoyden!
As foretold in the prophecy! I am hosting the 44th Down Under Feminists Carnival at Hoyden.
Submissions must be of posts of feminist interest by writers from Australia and New Zealand that were published in December. Submissions are due on 2 January at the latest, but the earlier the better!
Click over to the 43rd Down Under Feminists Carnival!
Deborah of A Bee of a Certain Age has once more supplied us with the Down Under Feminists Carnival, with DUFC edition number 43. It is a rather lovely one, so please go on over and click some links to… Read More ›
Quicklink: China and fashion spending
Chinese men spend more on fashion clothing than women. More than twice as much ($1.1 billion to $439 million).
Am I the punchline?
I admit to finding this blog parody, Seriously So Blessed quite funny but also rather mean-spirited, because poking fun at mummy blogs? Well, it’s a pretty soft target.
Economists with crying babies on aeroplanes
Using persuasion on crying children is something that non-parents are convinced will work — until the moment they become parents themselves and realize their own utter stupidity.
G’day, Bingo Viewers!
There’s been an uptick over the last few weeks in site visitors clicking on links to Anti-Feminist Bingo and Anti-Feminist Bingo #2 – since comments on those posts have been long closed, I invite you to comment here instead, should you feel so inclined.
Hoyden About Town 