Careful you don’t split your sides. [via Shakesville]
Sociology
Girl-Wonder announces the Con Anti-Harassment Project
Remember the Penguicon “Open Source Boob Project” that took place at Penguicon, and the resulting grassroots idea – the “Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Project“? Feminist comics fandom site Girl-Wonder has formalised things a little more, and has… Read More ›
63rd Carnival of the Feminists
I missed this last week! The Mind of Genevieve has published the 63rd Carnival of the Feminists. There is plenty of reading on street harassment, video games, TV, not taking people’s crap, marketing, being queer in Lebanon, teenage parenting, the… Read More ›
Fun with blogs and Christian Kerr, who doesn’t understand them
Christian Kerr was never my favourite Crikey! contributor back in the day, so I wasn’t especially aware of his opinion on many issues due to mostly skipping his byline (basically I avoided anything by him that was not straight political… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Germaine Greer
I found this image on this media release page at the Southern Cross University website, which uses it to illustrate promotional information for “An Evening With Germaine Greer” that took place in early 2008. I chose it because it is… Read More ›
Question OTD: What makes for a blog that excites you?
I’ve totally nabbed this idea from this post at Feministing, although I’m putting a bit of extra spin on it, because I like a bit of analysis alongside my lists of links. For those of you who use feedreaders, which… Read More ›
Wednesday Links
Shakesville has this amazing photo of the Olympic torch and the full moon. And from the comments: International Table Tennis Federation vice president Claude Bergeret, miffed with the lack of popularity of his sport, proposes a solution: “We are trying… Read More ›
Now this is what I call a netroots base
Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner Sean Tevis’ innovative method of raising internet fundraising in his venture to oust and replace his current State Representative (basically equivalent to one of… Read More ›
Peeve OTD: Tolerance versus Acceptance
Why is it, when some poor specimen of a social conservative writes something breathtakingly offensive/stupid/bigoted/hateful, and gets responses of “hey, that was breathtakingly offensive/stupid/bigoted/hateful”, the response is all too often snark along the lines of “this must be the famous… Read More ›
Ksubi topless party
This guest post is from Mindy, a regular commentor here and a contributor to the For Battle! group blog. It’s not often that I applaud the actions of a brewery, but in this case Fosters deserves a mention for taking… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 