It’s Carnival Time! We made it into our second year, yay!
The Eighth Edition of the Down Under Feminists’ Carnival is now up at stephiepenguin’s place.
There is plenty of great holiday reading, from parenting and media representation to beauty, the workplace, language, and Asian women. Check it out. Read more »
Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Because it’s school holidays and tigtog and I are family-focussed right now, I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria - just the posts I found memorable, the ones linked a lot, the ones that attracted lots of comments. Read more »
SMH: “Gay couples to face new era of financial discrimination”
Adele Horin
December 6, 2008 Read more »
Daily Telegraph: Women are safer drivers, but more neurotic behind the wheel
THE age-old dispute between men and women drivers has finally been solved - women are the safest but most neurotic behind the wheel.
Bad weather and unfamiliar roads upset female drivers while heavy traffic can drive men to distraction.
Kids behaving badly and poor road conditions can send tension levels soaring in both sexes.
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Another for-profit childcare corporation, CFK Childcare Centres Limited, has joined Eddy Groves’ ABC Learning in collapse. Read more »
Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Because it’s school holidays and tigtog and I are family-focussed right now, I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria - just the posts I found memorable, the ones linked a lot, the ones that attracted lots of comments. Read more »
Nestle are selling this product in Laos. Read more »
The call is out for Down Under Feminist Carnival submissions at Ideologically Impure, who is hosting this month:
No real theme, but I’m especially on the look-out for sassy posts by sassy people.
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Formula companies are back advertising infant formula direct to the public throughout Asia. Read more »
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