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  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    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?

  • RocKwiz and other seasonal delights

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    Sydney has moved into my favourite season for this city – autumn. Bright blue skies, crisp mornings and balmy days: and in the evenings, some better TV…

  • Bye Mum

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    black and white photo of a young woman with pale skin and short dark curly hair. She is hanging upside down by her knees from playground "jungle bars", laughing at the camera.

    Mum was the first hoyden I ever knew.

  • Reminder: Cherchez La Femme comes to Sydney this Sunday night (April 21)

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    Cherchez la Femme comes to Sydney for the first time! It’s 5pm to 8pm, Sun April 21 at the Vanguard, 42 King Street, Newtown. If you’re in Canberra, Cherchez La Femme will be held tomorrow night, Tue April 16, from 7pm at The Front Gallery & Cafe 2012 , 1 Wattle Place, Lyneham, $15 at the door.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Today’s Open Thread is hosted by two wee otters. The first, from Chester Zoo, was shared on flickr by Steven Feather. The second is this sleepy, cuddly pair of Oriental Short-Clawed otters, shared by yasa_. Please feel free to use… Read More ›

  • The words people cling to

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    The important point here is that we shouldn’t accept superficially casual dismissals of ‘vocabulary wars,’ ‘fetishization,’ or ‘language policing.’ We should look closely at the words people cling to with the most tenacity, even as they try to sound blas? about it..

  • Media Circus: Thatcher Dies edition

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    I despised everything Margaret Thatcher stood for and used her power to achieve, but I’m finding some of the gleefully vindictive misogynistic epithets being chucked around by purported progressives is acting exactly as such micro-agressions are meant to act –… Read More ›

  • Otter Day! And Open Thread

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    Welcome to Otterday. First up we have an adorable baby otter in a gumboot. This river otter at Little Pend Oreille Wildlife Refuge looks like it is having a tough day. Please feel free to use this thread to natter… Read More ›

  • Friday Hoyden: Bernadina van Tiel

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    I was watching a repeat of Schools Spectacular 2012 the other day, and folks, this girl. This girl. Her name is Bernadina, she was eighteen when she performed this, and she is about to blow your socks off.

  • 59th edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is up now!

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    The 59th Down Under Feminist Carnival is up!