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• February Sydney Hoyden Meet Up

  By Chally on 2016-01-27 • ( 5 )

  

  All the details on our 7 February Coogee Beach meet up.

• Otterday! And Open Thread

  By Mindy on 2016-01-23 • ( 2 )

  

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• The 92nd Down Under Feminists Carnival

  By Mary on 2016-01-15 • ( 3 )

  

  This is the 92nd monthly Down Under Feminists Carnival. This edition of the carnival gathers together December 2015 writing of feminist interest by writers living in Australia and New Zealand.

• Perth Bipedal Writers Festival

  By lauredhel on 2016-01-14 • ( 4 )

  There are things I hear a lot, when I’m trying to figure out whether I should bother trying to go to a place or an event. “Just ring and ask!” “Why don’t you just call?” “If there’s a problem when… Read More ›

• Vale David Bowie

  By Mindy on 2016-01-11 • ( 9 )

  

  What’s your favourite David Bowie song/movie/thing?

• Media Circus: Sets The Bar For Ministerial Conduct Impossibly High edition

  By tigtog on 2016-01-06 • ( 3 )

  

  Today’s news links are of highly paid professionals in positions with above-average levels of public interaction who have somehow failed to hurdle extremely low bars for standards of conduct.

  What’s piqued your media interests lately? (the theme of each edition is merely for discussion-starter purposes – all current news items are on topic!)

• Here’s 200 things to keep me busy for the rest of this year

  By tigtog on 2016-01-06 • ( 11 )

  

  One of my 2016 New Year resolutions has been daily decluttering. Nothing too intensive on any one day, just picking a corner/box/drawer/cupboard/shelf and committing a Neatness Of The Day. Some Daily Neatnesses will no doubt be more impressive undertakings than others.

• New Year’s Open Thread

  By Mindy on 2016-01-01 • ( 2 )

  

  The first open thread of 2016. What’s new Hoydens?

• Reminder: submit now for the 92nd Down Under Feminists Carnival!

  By Mary on 2015-12-30

  

  Reminder: submit now for the 92nd Down Under Feminists Carnival! Email submissions to mary-carnival [at] puzzling [dot] org. Submissions must be of posts of feminist interest by writers from Australia and New Zealand that were published in December 2015.

• King Lear and Family Dramas

  By Anna on 2015-12-22 • ( 1 )

  

  I have a piece up at The Conversation on how King Lear is a great primer in common dysfunctional emotional/behavioural patterns between an ageing parent and adult children. It’s a seasonal special! King Lear and Family Gatherings There are plot summary… Read More ›

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