I played a little bit with this New York Times article. Do the changes work for you? How does the article come off in general? Honey, Don’t Bother Daddy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand. On a brisk Saturday morning… Read More ›
gender & feminism
Crazy Bromains 2: This Time It’s Personal.
[cross-posted to Shakesville] Hey everyone, I’m Napalmnacey. I’ve blogged for years informally at my LJ, logansrogue, and now I’m contributing at Hoyden! I’m an artist, musician and singer, and I’m working on my first novel. I write and draw comics… Read More ›
Oscars!
Oscar spoilers below, for those waiting for the delayed telecast!
International Women’s Day Open Thread
What, if anything, does IWD mean to you?
What one thing would you like to see different for women by next year’s IWD?
Snippets of awesome
Despite February being a short month, Fuckpoliteness has a huge and FABULOUS Down Under Feminists Carnival up! This is our 22nd carnival and still going strong. Go and check out what local feminists have had to say about Tony Abbott,… Read More ›
“One-time bad decisions” that rapists keep on repeating
So what do you do if you decide that this person in your social circle is, on the balance of probabilities, a likely undetected serial sexual predator?
WA Government to apologise for abusive, illegal adoption system
The West Australian today reports that the WA government may become the first State government to publicly acknowledge and fully apologise to all mothers and children forced into adoptions, and harmed by illegal adoption practices. For decades in the mid… Read More ›
Louis Nowra? He has no idea what makes sexists tick
The irony within his own essay, which instead of simply engaging with Greer’s ideas includes gratuitous slams at her personal appearance, slams based on Greer eschewing these allegedly essential feminine fripperies, eludes him. Why, how could people like him mocking women who fail to delight his eye with fripperies possibly have anything to do with women’s “inherent” desire for fripperies?
Breastfeeding children and women a “low priority” – Western Australian parliament
Remember the protests in Perth last year about Premier Barnett’s party failing to bring WA into line with the rest of Australia with laws protecting breastfeeding families from harassment? In which Barnett insisted that there would be no need for… Read More ›
Not your punchline, Amanda Palmer.
If you missed this week’s Good News Week, or couldn’t see it because you’re not in Australia, here are the “disabled feminists” sledges aimed at FWD/Forward from Amanda Palmer, Des Bishop, and Paul McDermott. The ones we’ve been talking about… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 