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• Sunday Singalong: Chicks on Speed

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-12-18 • ( 2 )

  

  Here is Chicks on Speed with the ultimate anti-cock rock song; joyfully poking fun at the hyper-masculinity of the rock music scene and the way in which DIY punk-electronica is perceived as less than ‘real music’. “We Don’t Play Guitars”,… Read More ›

• On having to feel embarrassed for what you love

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-12-17 • ( 1 )

  

  Shed a tear for all the 6 year old girls who struggle to be able to love what they love regardless of stupid gender binary stereotypes: Look, I’m an optimist. I prefer to dwell on the positive rather than the… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2011-12-17 • ( 31 )

  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? […] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Weekend Womenscraft: Wrapping your presents

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-12-17 • ( 7 )

  

  Hoydens are apparently going to be showing you some crafty goodness as a regular weekly feature around here so stand back. If you follow my personal blog then you know I’m a goddamn craft-cynic so it doesn’t really make sense… Read More ›

• Quick Hit – 15 Interesting things about vaginas

  By Mindy on 2011-12-16 • ( 9 )

  

  15 interesting things.

• Quicklink: Harmful Communication Series

  By tigtog on 2011-12-15 • ( 3 )

  

  Much of this ties in with discussions here over the years; this time I recommend that you do read the comments. It’s some very useful reading to do just before those festive family gatherings.

• Thursday Internet Tradition: Cultural Appropriation Cat

  By Mindy on 2011-12-15 • ( 1 )

  

  Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of the Cultural Appropriation Cat.

• Whoydensday: TARDIG (not a typo)

  By tigtog on 2011-12-14 • ( 3 )

  

  That’s Time And Relative Dimensions In Gingerbread.

• The Australian Women Writers Challenge

  By lauredhel on 2011-12-13 • ( 9 )

  After hearing about it on Galactic Suburbia, I’m joining the Australian Women Writers Challenge next year! In 2012 I pledge to read… oh, what the heck, I’ll go for the biggie, the Franklin-fantastic: Ten books by Australian women writers, and I’ll review four…

• Astrolink: old rocks and old skies

  By tigtog on 2011-12-12

  

  It’s too long since I’ve put up a spectaculat starry time lapse video, and I needed some astronomical comforting after cloudy skies meant that I missed the lunar eclipse on Saturday. Via Bad Astronomy, this spectacular effort has pre-Incan petroglyphs… Read More ›

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