hoydens

celebrating boisterous, carefree, breakout women

Friday Hoyden: Bernadina van Tiel

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I was watching a repeat of Schools Spectacular 2012 the other day, and folks, this girl. This girl. Her name is Bernadina, she was eighteen when she performed this, and she is about to blow your socks off.

Headshot of Zerlina Maxwell, wearing a black and white scarf

Friday Hoyden: Zerlina Maxwell

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I think that the entire conversation is wrong. I don’t want anybody to be telling women anything. I don’t want men to be telling me what to wear and how to act, not to drink. And I don’t, honestly, want you to tell me that I needed a gun in order to prevent my rape. In my case, don’tt tell me if I’d only had a gun, I wouldn’t have been raped. Don’t put it on me to prevent the rape.
Content note: discussion of rape, violence and threatening behaviour.

Friday Hoyden: Ela Bhatt (recovered)

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International Women’s Day could not have a better Friday Hoyden than Ela Bhatt. A member of the international social activist organisation The Elders, Bhatt comes from India, where she received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development in 2011.

Kathryn Bigelow behind a move camera

Friday Hoyden Quick Hit: Women Who Direct Films

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With the Oscars mired in their annual refusal to see directing talent in anyone who doesn’t remind the Academy members of themselves, resulting in another disgraceful exclusion of any female directors from the Best Director nominations for yet one more predictable, narrow-minded year (I see no reason to hold back on this topic), here are some links to discussions, links and clips of movies made in 2012 that were directed by women.

Still from the movie showing Coraline and the black cat peering into a small, lighted doorway.

Friday Hoydens: Chihiro, Ofelia and Coraline

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Last night my family sat down together to watch Coraline, and I found myself instinctively grouping it with two other films centred on little girls navigating dark and strange fantasy lands, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.

Sepia photo portrait of Marion Mahony, in her 30s, seated, wearing an artist's smock.

Friday Hoydens: Margaret MacDonald and Marion Mahony

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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.