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• Guest post by Emma: Public Space

  By Guest Poster on 2009-02-18 • ( 56 )

  Emma_in_oz has identified as a feminist for fifteen years. (And as an SF fan, and as a medievalist, and as a fan of crafts, and…) Emma_in_oz is a single mother by choice – Pearl is nine months old. ~~~ I… Read More ›

• Stanford Journal Symposium on Parenting, and the Giant Iconic Bottle

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-18 • ( 6 )

  Those who’ve been following some of my recent discussions about breastfeeding and civil liberties might be interested to note this symposium poster. Parenting, Gender, and the Law is a symposium sponsored by the Stanford Journal for Civil Rights and Civil… Read More ›

• All those social networking website widgets may as well remove the Facebook button now

  By tigtog on 2009-02-17 • ( 7 )

  Seeing as Facebook has decided to claim that they own rights to any content on a website that has a “click to share on Facebook” style button, nearly everybody will be removing that particular button ASAP

• Troll-Off! Vote now for your favourite troll.

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-17 • ( 51 )

  Welcome to the Hoyden About Town Inaugural Troll-Off! Inspired by Feministe’s Next Top Troll, in the Hoyden Troll-Off you get to vote for the worst. You’ll need to “click to continue” to see all of the contestants, and the poll…. Read More ›

• What the media isn’t asking about that private hospital birth study (or, Bayes’ Theorem for Dummies)

  By tigtog on 2009-02-17 • ( 26 )

  Have peer review committees just given up on actually including a statistician these days? or do the statisticians need to do more sociology classes?

• “Newsflash: Man kills dozens; woman, naturally, to blame”

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-17 • ( 49 )

  Once, just once, can we have a story about the suspect for a high-profile violent crime without the lede being “OMG JILTED LOVER”? “Victoria fires: Brendan Sokaluk, Gippsland arson accused, fails to appear in court” I guess the Court of… Read More ›

• SUNDAY FEMINIST LINK-AROUND (now with crunchy Monday topping)

  By tigtog on 2009-02-16 • ( 6 )

  OK, a selection from the last week of memorable and topical posts. There’s quite a few links, so I’m putting them behind a cut so as not to clutter up the front page of the blog. Add your own links to posts you recommend in comments:

• Guest post by Ruzawench: “Fat and breastfeeding? The amphetamine script’s in the mail.”

  By Guest Poster on 2009-02-14 • ( 21 )

  This guest post is from Ruzawench, a FOAF of Lauredhel’s. She is posting her experience as a comment on how unexpected weight gain is treated by the medical community, and as a warning to other women. ~~~ I had a… Read More ›

• Otterday, and Open Thread (now Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse discussion)

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-14 • ( 95 )

  An otter juggling pebbles. What more could you want on a Saturday morn? Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires, so long as it’s not the subject of an already active thread. (The… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Jean Hirst

  By lauredhel on 2009-02-13 • ( 4 )

  I was rather taken today by the story of Jean Hirst. This 72-year-old woman was giving three teenage girls a lift after asking them directions to a theatre. One of the girls thought she saw an easy mark, grabbed Hirst’s… Read More ›

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