I’m seeing red. This is downright unconscionable. And in the face of a massive workforce shortage, too? This guy CAME to Australia answering the call for rural doctors in the first place. “Son’s Down syndrome forces doctor out of town”… Read More ›
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Linkfest: from steampunk to flamingos
Check out Sophie’s Steampunk Suffragette costume, now at the Hoydens About! flickr pool. She wore this for the Wasteland Steampunk convention. ~~~~ I’ve a guest post up at Shakesville, reprising the Monica Dux saga and responding to her article which… Read More ›
Mount Franklin Breast Cancer ads. Let’s start a Brown Colon Cancer Awareness campaign.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. The latest in the Mmm, Sexy Pink Breast Cancer! Save The Boobies Awareness sweepstakes comes from Mount Franklin, purveyors of pointless, wasteful, plastic-ridden, environmentally unfriendly bottled water. They’ve been doing the pink lids for a while,… Read More ›
Barriers to justice when rapists attack women with disabilities: new Australian report
“This young woman [“Caroline”] has cerebral palsy, is wheelchair bound, totally dependant on carers for her personal and daily living activities, and non-verbal. Cognitively very aware, she depends on assisted communication to enable her to communicate … Caroline was sexually… Read More ›
Ask the Hoydenizens: How to respond to the bootstrappers?
Sabina wrote: A few days ago I was having a conversation with one of my noob-to-feminism friends about feminism and intersectionality. At one point in the conversation he said something that was pretty much the equivalent of, “In my experience… Read More ›
Linkfest: wheelchair dancing, acafandom, Declare Yourself, and “This ain’t rude”
In “How Do Wheelchairs Work? A Word to Choreographers”, Wheelchair Dancer writes an open letter to non-disabled choreographers on the “replication” of disability, and how not to work with dancers who use wheelchairs. ~~~ For acafans – those interested in… Read More ›
Hoyden Mailbag: Good News and Bad News
Today’s Hoyden Mailbag consists of two articles from the local weekly paper. A while back, I talked about playgrounds that are inaccessible to parents. The problem of playgrounds inaccessible to children is, of course, huge. Today I found that the… Read More ›
Why I Don’t Read Jezebel Any More: The R Word, and Invented Diseases
I used to rather like Jezebel, back in the day. It was a fairly feminist space right in the midst of mainstream online media, with a hoydenish style that appealed. Now it’s just a sewer. The latest? “…there are still… Read More ›
Wednesday Links
Shakesville has this amazing photo of the Olympic torch and the full moon. And from the comments: International Table Tennis Federation vice president Claude Bergeret, miffed with the lack of popularity of his sport, proposes a solution: “We are trying… Read More ›
Amandaw is kicking arse and taking names when it comes to able-bodied privilege
Amandaw has been writing an absolutely white-hot series of guest posts at Feministe about invisible disability and her illness experience. I intensely, wholeheartedly urge you to make an effort to set the time aside to read them all. Start at the bottom, read the comments, and work your way up.
If you had to pick just four, though, try
Hoyden About Town 