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• Friday Hoydens: Margaret MacDonald and Marion Mahony

  By Anna on 2013-02-08 • ( 3 )

  

  Two of the most influential figures in modern aesthetics spent decades as footnotes to the biographies of their husbands. Margaret MacDonald, wife of Charles Rennie Macintosh, and Marion Mahony, wife of Walter Burley Griffin, have in recent times begun to be acknowledged as the great artists they were.

• Femmostroppo Reader 2013-02-08

  By tigtog on 2013-02-08

  

  Items of interest encountered recently. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• February Whimsy: Shenanigans edition

  By Mindy on 2013-02-07 • ( 13 )

  

  Sometimes we all need to see teh awesome. Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you!

• Quick Hit: FU Fit n Fast

  By Mindy on 2013-02-07 • ( 4 )

  

  I don’t feel fat. I am fat. So what?

• Quicklink: Language, as a tool, is never neutral

  By tigtog on 2013-02-06

  Language is a weapon used to make ‘others’ of people in poverty.

• Femmostroppo Reader 2013-02-04

  By tigtog on 2013-02-04 • ( 4 )

  

  Items of interest encountered recently. What did I miss? (I missed a lot this week again – still very busy with family stuff) Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By lauredhel on 2013-02-02 • ( 25 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• So yeah, kid’s movies.

  By Mindy on 2013-01-31 • ( 14 )

  

  Reviews of four of the latest release kids movies: Wreck it Ralph, Rise of the Guardians, ParaNorman and Hotel Transylvania. Contains spoilers.

• Nugget of Awesome: You Need To Get Off My Foot

  By tigtog on 2013-01-30 • ( 18 )

  

  If you step on my foot, you need to get off my foot.

  If you step on my foot without meaning to, you need to get off my foot.

  If you step on my foot without realizing it, you need to get off my foot.

• Media Circus: Election Announcement Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-01-30 • ( 32 )

  

  A Federal election in September, violence in Egypt and Syria, Obama proposes immigration reforms and appoints John Kerry his new Secretary of State, deaths and damage are being tallied in Tasmanian/Victorian fires and Queensland floods. What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

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