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• Friday Hoyden: Sister Donna Quinn

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-06 • ( 6 )

  Sister Donna Quinn, a Dominican nun, has been involved in pro-choice activism in the United States for many years. From escorting women into clinics and protesting anti-choice legislation to fighting for women’s access to all levels of the religious hierarchy,… Read More ›

• Dream Home?

  By Mindy on 2009-11-05 • ( 14 )

  This isn’t my dream home. I’m not sure what I’d do with six kitchens and twelve toilets, apart from endless cleaning [can you imagine the mess the kids could make?]. I know for certain that I’d feel weird sending guests… Read More ›

• Thursday Cheezburger: Magic Kittehs

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-05 • ( 7 )

  Today’s kitty theme is: Magic! Runner-up: Post your own favourite Magic LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an image only… Read More ›

• When Emma Thompson follows through on this promise…

  By tigtog on 2009-11-05 • ( 6 )

  (to remove her name from the petition supporting Roman Polanski) then I’m adding her picture to the sidebar Hoydens collection.

• Quickhit: “defining moments of the noughties”?

  By tigtog on 2009-11-05 • ( 8 )

  This Top 100 is a British list, and it’s from the UK Daily Telegraph (“that fascist rag” is always appended to any mention of it by my Welsh DB), but it’s still an interesting idea. What do you agree with,… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader – November 4, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-11-04 • ( 15 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Let's Get a Few Things Straight, Shall We? – “Don’t get me wrong: I do not,… Read More ›

• Public Transport Authority takes crip-blaming to a new level

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-04 • ( 11 )

  Last week, we discussed the effective curfew for people with mobility disabilities effected by the nighttime closure of lifts to pedestrian bridges over busy roads. Today, this story appeared in a Perth community newspaper: Station Frustration Victoria Park councillor Claire… Read More ›

• Reclamation

  By lauredhel on 2009-11-04

  I finally finished another long post for FWD/Forward (Feminists with Disabilities), a rewrite of a Hoyden post about linguistic reclamation that I made long ago. Reclamation: thoughts from a fat hairy uppity lame bitch And just for fun, I made… Read More ›

• Virtual Travelling: Halloween mosaic

  By tigtog on 2009-11-03 • ( 2 )

  OK, this is almost certainly the last Halloween post for the year – not bad for a country where it’s not meant to be that big of a deal! I just really enjoy the creativity that Halloween inspires in some people, particularly the jack-o-lantern carvers (sure, computer-based patterns for carving have simplified the craft, but it’s still a lot of work).

• Femmostroppo Reader – November 2, 2009

  By tigtog on 2009-11-02 • ( 5 )

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Pat Robertson And CBN Friends Are Tripping Again – the annual excursion into halloween hysteria Women… Read More ›

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