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Sydney Hoydenizens Do Karaoke!
see more Lolcats and funny pictures So, the details for the much-anticipated karaoke evening, filled to the brim with Hoydenizen renditions of the Hottest 100 Women as well as some trashy favourites,...
View Article‘Avatar’ Indignation Thread
By popular request (and my need for a place to vent, still), this is the thread in which to point out plot holes, the rampant racism, (hetero)sexism and ableism, and general all-round problems with...
View ArticleSexting and Slut-Shaming
The Minister for Home Affairs recently launched the ThinkUKnow campaign. This campaign is directed at teens, and is designed, apparently, to “help… the guardians of young people understand the safety...
View ArticleRally for Abortion Rights
On October the 9th this year, there is a National Day of Action being held in support of the Cairns couple who face legal action over sourcing RU486 from overseas, and in solidarity with Queensland...
View ArticleTackling Misogyny: Procedures or Social Sanctions?
I’m sure that at least some of you have seen the blog run by Jender amongst others, called What is it like to be a woman in philosophy? filled with hair-raising and heart-breaking stories of women who...
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Quick Hit: Today in ‘equality’
I happened across this description of a cheerleader who had been thrown off a cheerleading squad for refusing to cheer for her (they’ll want to stick ‘alleged’ in here, you watch!) rapist. He had pled...
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Neoliberal welfare and gender inequality
I suppose that by now, everyone in Australia has probably come across some version of the latest iteration of the hatin’-on-teen-mums discourse, which comes up with frightening regularity. This version...
View ArticleQuick Hit: The Hidden World of Girls
A special radio show (or is it just a podcast now?) With Tina Fey! And the Kitchen Sisters! And stories about alien girls from Venus, the girl who shot a buck , the first women race-car drivers in...
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Housing and Dreaming Community
“So many of our problems would be alleviated if we had 3 or 4 exceptional friends living within a 2 minute radius.” Alain de Botton (h/t shonias/Ariane). Over the past little while, I’ve been thinking...
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Quick Hit: Project Unbreakable [Trigger Warning]
This post and the link it takes you to comes with a big trigger warning for use of the words of sexual attackers. Late last year, Grace Brown started an art project called Project Unbreakable. It...
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