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• IWD Event: Dame Carol Kidu to give the 2012 Pamela Denoon lecture

  By Anna on 2012-02-28

  

  For Hoydens within travelling distance of Canberra, this year’s Pamela Denoon lecture will be given on International Women’s Day (Thursday 8 March), at the ANU, on on “Sex, Women and the 21st Century in Papua New Guinea”.

• Being an Asexual Ally

  By Guest Poster on 2012-02-28 • ( 44 )

  

  Being an ally means talking to people about asexuality and accepting their identity as they describe it. It means asking questions only when you’re genuinely interested in hearing the answer. If your mindset is already fixed at “I don’t quite understand x, therefore asexuality cannot be valid,” then do everyone a favour and just walk away.

• Sydney Hoydenizen/femmoblog meetup March: planning thread

  By Mary on 2012-02-27 • ( 4 )

  

  I propose a meetup for March. It will likely be south of the harbour this time. If you’d like to come along, please indicate your preferred date at this Doodle poll.

• The rise of fetal personhood notions in WA politics

  By lauredhel on 2012-02-27 • ( 24 )

  Things are not looking great in Western Australia for the rights of pregnant people at the moment. Yesterday we had this: Unborn babies given recognition in new laws Causing the death of an unborn child will be viewed similar to… Read More ›

• What do I want from #respill today? Another hung parliament, please

  By tigtog on 2012-02-27 • ( 10 )

  

  For the last two decades of Federal and State elections, I have been voting strategically for a hung parliament (in both Houses) every time. In 2010, enough of my fellow citizens did the same that a hung Federal parliament was finally what we got.

• Sunday Singalong: Hole

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-02-26 • ( 8 )

  

  Image credit. I have been dying to do Hole for a Sunday Singalong because they’re easily my favourite ‘angry young women’ (and one man) band of all time. Courtney Love, who loves word play and drilling into the sexism of… Read More ›

• About #ditchthewitch

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-02-26 • ( 11 )

  

  Image credit. Last night on Twitter, amongst the heated debate about Julia Gillard versus Kevin Rudd for Labor Prime Minister of Australia emerged the hashtag #ditchthewitch. It is a belittling, sexist slogan borrowed from the far right of Australia, who… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-02-25 • ( 22 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Friday Hoyden: Dora Chance

  By Anna on 2012-02-24 • ( 1 )

  

  Dora and Nora Chance (the “Lucky Chances”, naturally) are twins born into post- war London, on the wrong side of the theatrical tracks. Bastard children of a grand Shakespearean actor, Dora and Nora learn to dance to work their passage through a world that makes a great fuss of legitimacy, but likes to have less licit elements on call as well. Dora narrates, and you accompany her giddy passions, frantic hopes and pragmatic compromises.

• Labor leadership spill thread #respill #kevenge

  By tigtog on 2012-02-23 • ( 15 )

  

  I just wish Labor as a party could put more people into Parliament who know how to tell their arse from their elbow.

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