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• Performing female sexuality

  By Mindy on 2013-08-26 • ( 16 )

  

  Was Miley’s VMA performance problematic or have I just missed the point?

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2013-08-24 • ( 20 )

  

  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?

• Signal Boost: I Am A Girl

  By Anna on 2013-08-23 • ( 1 )

  

  The new documentary I Am A Girl is about to screen, briefly, in Sydney and Melbourne. The film gives six teenage girls, each in a different country, the space to speak of their lives.

• Media Circus: Wikileaks Party Implodes Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-08-22 • ( 20 )

  

  Resignations everywhere. Whee!

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

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2013-08-17 • ( 15 )

  

  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?

• Friday Hoyden: Hellena in Aphra Behn’s “The Rover”

  By Anna on 2013-08-16 • ( 4 )

  

  The Rover is one of the all-time great Restoration comedies. One of the greatest silly romps of any era of playwriting, in fact, because it has everything: disguises, sword fights, carnival, a girl dressed as a boy, thwarted lovers, drunken shenanigans, sex, danger and a jilted courtesan. And its heroine, Hellena, is the ultimate witty wench.

• Storify CEO enables a stalker and thinks it’s no big deal

  By tigtog on 2013-08-16 • ( 3 )

  

  “There is no plausible way that Xavier Damman doesn’t know that he alerted a stalker to a conversation [taking] place about him. There is no plausible way that Xavier Damman doesn’t know that he sent a list of people who care about online stalking to a known online stalker.”

• Abbott Watch: they’re coming thick and fast

  By Anna on 2013-08-15 • ( 12 )

  

  In the interests of sound record-keeping, here is a collation of some of the awful, awful things Tony Abbott has been saying since the federal election date was set. Get ready to be set reeling by the way he is capable of being offensive in so many directions at once, but also remind yourself that this is just in the past week.

• Sydney Femmosphere Meetup: Sunday August 18 in Enmore, come one, come all

  By Mindy on 2013-08-14 • ( 8 )

  

  There will be a Hoyden and Femmosphere meetup in Enmore on Sunday August 18 at 12 noon. See you there!

• Solidarity is for White Women Storified

  By Mindy on 2013-08-13 • ( 18 )

  

  #solidarityisforwhitewomen time for us white women to sit down, shut up and listen

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