I was a judo player through my university years. Judo was an essential ingredient in my personal realisation of my bodily strength and mental power. I learned that I could jump, fall, roll, lift, and throw; and I learned that… Read More ›
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Friday Hoyden: Pippi Longstocking
[image credit: kiddie matinee] I loved Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking as a kid, and I’m just rediscovering her now at bedtime read-aloud with my four-year-old. Pippi is a quintessential hoyden, the obvious choice for my first Friday Hoyden piece. As… Read More ›
Friday Fun: Which feminist icon are you?
Well, I try and kick arse, but I don’t really think I kick an Angela Davis level of arse. (Updated to Add: see, although Crikey! has just described Hoyden About Town as “dispens[ing] its femmobolsho views loudly, proudly and with… Read More ›
“Well, fancy that!” Of The Day
Australia’s own Annette Kellerman, swimming champion and inventor of the women’s one-piece bathing suit, starred in the first ever million-dollar Hollywood film (which of course means that the title of the Esther William’s biopic “Million Dollar Mermaid” now makes so… Read More ›
Friday Fun – “Museum” edition
aka When is a museum actually a theme park? Here it is: the Ken Ham’s Creation “Museum” post that Hoyden had to have, made much easier by the recent spate of LOLCreationists online. Image Credit: Dancing Spring PZ Myers put… Read More ›
Ad hoc hoyden
This time around: Suzi Q. On A Mailing List I frequent of which most members are USAns, we were having a long discussion of names and nicknames. Susan and its derivatives came up, which led to the discussion of Susie… Read More ›
Return of the Friday Furry (with bonus ad hoc hoyden!)
I believe some of you have been suffering withdrawals (that’s my excuse to justify how I’ve been missing playing around with my image collection anyway). Stabled (1990) William Wegman Wegman is the Weimaraner photographer, who’s taken umpty-zillion shots of his… Read More ›
Any search string that leads to Molly Ivins is a good search string
Sometimes following links that turn up in sitemeter is a joy rather than the usual ennui of seeing how many pervs are finding a link to this blog in a search engine. I like to think the pervs get a… Read More ›
In honour of Eleanor
A long time e-friend has just welcomed the arrival of his second daughter, to be known as Eleanor. Congratulations! I love that name, as Eleanor of Aquitaine (at various times Prince of Aquitaine as ruling Duchess, Queen of France, Queen… Read More ›
Ad hoc hoyden
When I was putting the banners for this blog together, I trudged through the intertubes in search of pics of my favourite hoydens and found heaps, but obviously I couldn’t put all the pics in, or I would have had… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 