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Galactic Suburbia is an Australia feminist speculative fiction podcast, hosted by three switched-on, outspoken, insightful women:
hoydens
celebrating boisterous, carefree, breakout women
Friday Hoydens: Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women
Saffire was an acoustic trio of uppity blues women who performed together for 25 years from 1984-2009.
Friday Hoyden: Roseanne Barr
Before we realised this ‘yummy mummy’ thing was engulfing us; before a whole host of experts came out and made a theory of the intensification and idealisation of motherhood and the damage it is doing to us; before smart women… Read More ›
Will make you feel happy
Featuring the Bad News of the Bronx. From here. (Update: whoops, wrong video. This is the one to make you feel happy. Money back guarantee).
Friday Hoyden: Jean Marsh
Our guest hoyden today is Tasmanian author Tansy Rayner Roberts, who has the second book of her fantasy trilogy released today! woot!
I can’t remember not knowing who Jean Marsh was.
Diana Wynne-Jones, 1934-2011
Chally has a memorial post up on Feministe. Wynne-Jones’ own bio is on her Chrestomanci Castle website …
Friday Hoyden: Vale, Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011
I’m sure you’ve all seen the many tributes over the last 24 hours. Elizabeth Taylor was one of those screen legends everybody knew about, but we didn’t really know much about what she was like in person.
Friday Hoyden: Kim Clijsters made of awesome
What if, every time a woman was called fat, she laughed?
So tweeted Margot Magowan to sum up the awesomeness that was Kim Clijsters this week.
BFTP – Friday Hoyden: Pippi Longstocking
Pippi is everything I wanted to be as a child but didn’t know how – outrageous, loud, anti-authoritarian, strong, free-spirited, messy, generous, powerful, and brutally honest. She is self-sufficient, thinks “ladylike” is a loud of hooey, and is an efficient dispenser of justice to bullies. Her shoes are too big, her clothes are a mess, she can lift a horse over her head, and nobody knows what to do with her. What’s not to like?
BFTP: Friday Hoyden – Eleanor of Aquitaine
Another Summer Slowdown blast from the past post from the archives.. A long time e-friend in 2006 welcomed the arrival of his second daughter, to be known as Eleanor.
I love that name, as Eleanor of Aquitaine (at various times Prince of Aquitaine as ruling Duchess, Queen of France, Queen of England, Queen Mother and Regent of England) is my favourite historical hoyden. EofA is, indeed, how I judge the quality of any encyclopaedia I encounter.
Hoyden About Town 