Hoyden About Town

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• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By Mary on 2015-03-14 • ( 13 )

  

  Our Open Thread this weekend is hosted by this otter dreaming into infinity. Photo by Jon Bunting.

• In memoriam: Terry Pratchett, and a Discworld reading history

  By Mary on 2015-03-13 • ( 10 )

  

  A fussy baby woke me at 5am and I found that the news of Terry Pratchett’s death came overnight. Hoyden About Town has had several previous threads on Pratchett’s work: Belated Friday Hoydens: The Witches of Lancre, Gratuitous Pratchett Appreciation thread: Crivens!,… Read More ›

• Welcome to our new home! Open thread! With cake recipes!

  By Mary on 2015-03-09 • ( 19 )

  

  If you can see this post, migration is complete, comments are open, and it is time to resume usual Hoyden business! This is a bonus open thread for commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations! Also links to cake and treat recipies,… Read More ›

• Migration open thread (from Hoyden in Exile)

  By tigtog on 2015-03-09 • ( 5 )

  

  So I’m about to go and disable commenting on posts over at Hoyden About Town so that we can ‘port posts over to the new server without losing anything. In the meantime, please comment here instead!

• We’re migrating the blog

  By tigtog on 2015-03-08

  

  Over the next couple of days HaT’s datafiles will be shifted to a new server. In order to streamline the porting process, we may need to place the site into Maintenance Mode for short periods. So we’ve disabled comments from the front-end and asked our bloggers to not log into the back-end for the next couple of days.

• ‘It’s my right to get hellish’…Orly?

  By Mindy on 2015-03-06 • ( 4 )

  

  Sometimes songs on high rotation are really, really annoying. Here are three of them. Add yours in the comments.

• The 82nd Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

  By Chally on 2015-03-06 • ( 3 )

  

  All the details on the latest edition and how to submit to the next one!

• Please don’t liken yourselves to Rosa Parks

  By Mindy on 2015-03-05 • ( 4 )

  

  Please don’t say that having lunch at a male membership only club makes you like Rosa Parks.

• Reminder: Hoyden meetup, Sydney, Sunday March 8

  By Mary on 2015-03-03 • ( 10 )

  

  Reminder: Hoyden meetup at the Guylian Belgian Chocolate Cafe, Opera Quays, East Circular Quay this Sunday (8th March) at 12:00 noon!

• Our Unconsciousness regarding Privilege and Bias

  By tigtog on 2015-02-28

  

  This is stuff regular readers likely already know, but it’s nice to have links to stuff for others. Two recent op-eds from the NYT discuss how decision makers in a wide range of gatekeeper roles are more likely to make discretionary accommodations for some people than others while not noticing that this is what they’re doing:

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