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  • Media Circus: asylum seeker impasse

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    Everything about the way that our pundits are demonising boat-arriving asylum seekers while pumping out crocodile tears over drowned families is disingenuous,the way that most of our politicians are pandering to them is despicable, and the debate this week is framed around not even asking the right questions. Please share your bouquets and brickbats for particular items in the mass media, or highlight cogent analysis elsewhere, on any current sociopolitical issue.

  • F F F F*

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    Oh FFS.

  • Appreciation or Appropriation?

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    Appreciation or appropriation? You decide.

  • Thursday Internet Tradition: Soon! Soon? Soon…

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    Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, something awaits…

  • Blogkeeping

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    The parent theme which powers the Hoyden theme was just updated, so a few things might look mildly different. Please let me know if you find anything important missing or malfunctioning.

  • 6 Books: Dava Sobel

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    Her list of six books that ignited her passion for space, scientific exploration and adventure from Radio National’s Top Shelf segment. What books were ignition points for you? Most of mine had something to do with histories.

  • Vale Nora Ephron

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    screenwriter and film director Nora Ephron

    A warm and moving tribute from Melissa Silverstein at Women & Hollywood. I’m sitting here reeling from the news that Nora Ephron has died. No one even knew she was sick and now she is gone.

  • “Abigail’s age has been raised.”

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    A young woman of mixed race, in Puritan costume, clasps her hands and looks up.

    Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has meant so much to so many people. As a parable about state control, or without its political dimension, as an examination of the power dynamics within a closed society, or of an individual working through guilt to find something valuable in themselves. In fictionalising the lives of the real people involved, however, Miller raised Abigail’s age from eleven to seventeen. It may be time to think about his motives and the implications of the changes he made.

  • Utopia Girls: I’m disappointed

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    Guest Blogger Alex “Skud” Bayley reviews a documentary aired on the ABC about women’s suffrage in Australia, Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote.

  • Quick Hit: this is definitely the droid you are looking for

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    For the sheer delight of it (and a bit especially for Chally) – Yarn R2-D2 | The Mary Sue.