Parenting expert, Steve Biddulph, who I am not a fan of for various reasons, is best known for his book, Raising Boys. Now Biddulph has begun calling attention to the plight of girls with the launch of his new book,… Read More ›
Sociology
À chacun son goût
One person’s adorable quirk is the next person’s pet peeve.
International Women’s Day Concert To Benefit IWDA
A heads up from the organisers. Links to tickets sales etc at the end.
International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) will celebrate International Women’s Day 2013 with a concert, “Half the Sky”, at the Melbourne Recital Centre on March 7th.
A couple of things to bear in mind with the ‘slacker mum’ movement
Jane Caro has just written a rather charming article, “Over-mothered? No, over mothering” for the Sydney Morning Herald. For birthdays, I bought two packs of 12 lamington fingers and stuck a candle in each one. They served a whole class…. Read More ›
Friday Hoydens: Chihiro, Ofelia and Coraline
Last night my family sat down together to watch Coraline, and I found myself instinctively grouping it with two other films centred on little girls navigating dark and strange fantasy lands, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.
Those who do not know their internet history are doomed to repeat it, clearly.
Datum the First: On April 8, 2007 Tim O’Reilly wrote a Draft Blogger’s Code Of Conduct …In the nearly seven years since, many similar initiatives have been proposed.
Proving the point: harassers attempt to hijack #TellAFeministThankyou hashtag
I started #tellafeministthankyou b/c of feminists harassed on Twitter. Now ppl are using the tag to harass feminists. Prove the point more! — Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) February 12, 2013
Media Circus: Pope resigns edition
Well, all sorts of things are going to fly under the media’s radar this week, aren’t they? What else has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.
The 57th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!
All the details on the latest edition, and how to submit to the next one!
Friday Hoydens: Margaret MacDonald and Marion Mahony
Two of the most influential figures in modern aesthetics spent decades as footnotes to the biographies of their husbands. Margaret MacDonald, wife of Charles Rennie Macintosh, and Marion Mahony, wife of Walter Burley Griffin, have in recent times begun to be acknowledged as the great artists they were.
Hoyden About Town 