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• Friday Hoyden: Trillian

  By Anna on 2014-04-18 • ( 8 )

  

  I’m feeling a bit Life, the Universe and Everything this week, so our Friday Hoyden is the space-hopping astrophysicist heroine of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, Trisha McMillan, aka Trillian.

• Media Circus: Sudden Resignation Edition

  By tigtog on 2014-04-17 • ( 1 )

  

  So farewell to Barry O’Farrell, and hello to a new premier for NSW sometime later today (probably).

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• Today in Anita’s Irony and Lewis’ Law: my threats will show you that harassment is a myth

  By tigtog on 2014-04-15

  

  Sending a woman rape threats to prove that sexual harassment doesn’t exist proves feminism’s point, not yours.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2014-04-12 • ( 13 )

  

  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?

• Quick Hit: Angry = Awesome

  By Mindy on 2014-04-10 • ( 5 )

  

  Some great angry writing from feminists.

• Normalisation of violence against women

  By Jo Tamar on 2014-04-10 • ( 5 )

  What do these two pieces of popular culture have in common?
  (TW: references to violence (including sexual violence) against women)

• Quick Hit: Have you cried today?

  By Mindy on 2014-04-09 • ( 2 )

  

  If not, go and read bluemilk’s latest for Daily Life. Have a tissue or forty handy. TW: involves a snake.  

• Pink science

  By tigtog on 2014-04-08 • ( 4 )

  

  To add to your bookmarks, here’s Cordelia Fine in New Scientist running through some more of the scientific evidence that gendered toys are a product of socialisation rather than genetics.

• Congratulations to Australia’s Southern Stars

  By tigtog on 2014-04-07 • ( 4 )

  

  Our Southern Stars women’s cricket team won their third straight World T20 title on Sunday, beating England by six wickets in the final.

• Femmostroppo Reader 7th April 2014

  By tigtog on 2014-04-07 • ( 3 )

  

  Those who follow me on Twitter may have already seen a fair few of these links. What have you found worth reading/hatereading lately?

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