Heretical is the annual magazine of the Women’s Collective at UQ (University of Queensland). This year it might not appear unless there is some rapid assistance from the broad feminist community. They simply don’t have enough submissions, and time is… Read More ›
books & writing
literature, genre, fan-fic, blogging, graphic novels, web-comics etc etc
Sunday Science links
Image Source: National Geographic: Best Science Images of 2008 Announced (Honorable Mention, Photography: “Squid Suckers: The Little Monsters That Feed the Beast” by Jessica Schiffman) Ig Nobels The Annals of Improbable Research has just had its annual big night out:… Read More ›
Feminist Blogger Project
Jessie is doing a PhD, and needs feminist bloggers to do a survey and maybe later an interview.
Procrastination Aid of the Day
Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Twilight Zone and Sex and the City. The story should use the future as a plot device! Generated by the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction… Read More ›
Book Giveaway: The Great Feminist Denial
I can’t deny, the timing on this has been a little awkward. We had a monster thread nearly two weeks ago about an op-ed written by one of the co-authors of this book, Monica Dux, where the general sense was… Read More ›
“The great army of impure women”
Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series! The initial post is here. This instalment is part three of Chapter IV, “Sex Physiology and Hygiene”. (Part One, Part Two.) This passage is quite dense with meaning, but a few things I… Read More ›
Ur doin it rong no. 15498774
Author: Mindy also blogs at the eclectic group blog For Battle! Just in case you thought it was the man drought that was keeping you single, here is a new book to put you straight. The Re-education of the Female… Read More ›
SF Sunday: I got not much edition
Apart from noting with a thrill that there will be an Aussiecon 4 in 2010, I haven’t been doing much SFing this week. Anybody? Bueller? I have been watching a Bond retrospective on cable the last few weeks. The way… Read More ›
Monica Dux thinks I’m bad for feminism’s image
Monica Dux, one of the co-authors of new book The Great Feminist Denial, has an opinion piece in the Age: Feminist is not a dirty word And it hits one of my oldest pet peeves: rejecting a large part of… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Little My
My fictional Friday Hoyden is Little My. Little My is a character in the Moominland books by Tove Jansson. My is probably considered a bit part by many readers. She is relegated to last place in the Moomin-Gallery of characters…. Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 