Hoyden About Town

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• How To Deny Men’s Sexism

  By lauredhel on 2015-09-16 • ( 7 )

  

  Inspired by a conversation elsewhere… Image description: A rectangle roughly the shape of a book cover, with a sepia background. It is covered with red and black text in the style of the text of the cover of Joanna Russ’s… Read More ›

• Abbott-Watch #libspill, get your popcorn

  By tigtog on 2015-09-14 • ( 37 )

  

  A thread to share anything especially entertaining or infuriating regarding tonight’s Liberal party leadership ballot.

• Media Circus: Politicians Of Conviction edition

  By tigtog on 2015-09-13 • ( 7 )

  

  Veteran left-wing MP Jeremy Corbyn, a strong anti-austerity activist, has been elected leader of the Labour Party by a landslide.

  Meanwhile, the Australian Labor Party is still led by Bill Shorten.

  What’s piqued your media interests lately?

• 10 years ago today…

  By Mary on 2015-09-10 • ( 10 )

  

  … there was a wee baby blogpost blog, on which a certain tigtog asked so why blog now? Happy 10th birthday, Hoyden About Town!

• The 88th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

  By Chally on 2015-09-07

  At The Conversationalist, Ju presents DUFC #88! Go have a read. The next edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is planned for 5 October, 2015, and will be hosted by Rebecca at Opinions @ bluebec.com. Submissions to rebecca [dot] dominguez [at] gmail… Read More ›

• Letters to Tiptree: what does it mean to “write like a man”?

  By lauredhel on 2015-08-26 • ( 4 )

  

  In Letters to Tiptree, forty writers, editors, critics, and fans address questions of gender, of sexuality, of the impossibility and joy of knowing someone only through their fiction and biography. They reminisce about the impact of Tiptree’s work, about teaching her stories, and about what it means that a woman can write “like a man”.

• Brainstorming session: Shakespeare 400

  By Anna on 2015-08-17 • ( 4 )

  

  Here’s a little bit of Australian history trivia: the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death coincided with the first celebration of ANZAC day. Sydney’s Shakespeare memorialists had spent four years planning major events, including booking the fanciest theatre in town for… Read More ›

• Otter Day! And Open Thread

  By Mindy on 2015-08-15 • ( 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 great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Media Circus: The Mysteries of Brewing edition

  By tigtog on 2015-08-11 • ( 4 )

  

  So this week most of the mass media is purporting to believe that it is possible to produce alchohol from brewers yeast extract.

  What’s piqued your media interests lately?

• The 87th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

  By Chally on 2015-08-05

  

  See all the details on the latest carnival and how to submit to the next one.

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