When word came through of Carrie Fisher’s heart attack, and then of her death, and almost immediately after that of the death of her mother, Debbie Reynolds many of us felt we had been dealt a particularly harsh blow. No… Read More ›
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celebrating boisterous, carefree, breakout women
QOTD: Daphne du Maurier
“There’s nothing so dangerous as a headstrong girl who knows her own mind.”
BFTP Friday Hoyden: Ching Shih
Feminist Frequency in its new series, #OrdinaryWomen: Daring to Defy History, is continuing its run of making awesome little profiles of awesome women who we’ve already profiled here at some time in the distant past. This time it’s nineteenth century… Read More ›
BFTP Friday Hoyden: Emma Goldman
Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency have launched a terrific new series called #OrdinaryWomen: Daring to Defy History. The first episode is just up, and it’s about legendary political activist Emma Goldman. This makes it seem like a good time to… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Margaret of Anjou
In the fifteenth century England was governed by a loose association of noble families, led by a King who may or may not have gained his crown as the most direct male descendant of the previous King. The two ways… Read More ›
Friday Hoydens: Women in Theatre
The Irish theatre scene is currently in an uproar of the best kind. In 1904 the Abbey Theatre in Dublin was co-founded, with W.B. Yeats and Edward Martyn, by Augusta, Lady Gregory to give the voice of the Irish nation… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
“Taxation without representation is a tyranny… I am unable to pay money to the state, as I am not allowed to exercise any control over its expenditure.” – Princess Sophia’s response in court, on charges of refusing to pay licence… Read More ›
Talk like a pirate day Friday Hoyden: Sayyida al Hurra
It be that time o’ the year once more when we don our arrghs and polish up our mateys for tomorrow’s Talk Like a Pirate Day (19th September). It’s a great time to remind ourselves that women could be just… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: The Matildas
The Matildas, the Australian women’s football team are currently on strike for a better pay deal. The wage gap between male and female players is staggering.
Friday Hoyden: Bree Newsome
After the murder of nine people at a Bible study group in a church in South Carolina, USA, in a white supremacist terrorist massacre specifically targeting black Americans, many people’s patience has run out with the display of racist symbols… Read More ›
