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Book giveaway: It’s got hoydens in it!

MUP have generously sent me two copies of The Great Feminist Denial by Monica Dux and Zora Simic, so I’m giving one away to the first commenter to tell us who wrote this and supply the missing words:...

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Holiday Reading

While I’m still too busy doing other things, check out the latest Downunder Feminists’ carnival, brought to you by Stephiepenguin. Oh, and in other news, Exploding boy finds my blog. I’ve been told.

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Writing from the right side of the brain

A friend of mine, who was a jewellery maker and silversmith, decided she needed to brush up on her hand drawing technique and bought a book called Drawing on the right Side of the Brain. As I remember...

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The Clade

Clade: Pronunciation: \ˈklād\ : Function: noun : Etymology: Greek klados : a group of biological taxa (as species) that includes all descendants of one common ancestor. Many of you are familiar with...

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At Home on the Cast Iron Balcony

He who must not be named came home from school complaining that poetry was stupid. He mentioned that he’d had a poem set in class by someone called “Ogden Nash” and that was the quintessence of...

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Lovelace and Babbage

A big hat tip, or a doff rather, with a big Victorian-era hat – something tall and full of mercury— to Nabs, who has sent me a link to the most wonderful thing on the entire Internets. No, not the guy...

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Down Under Feminists Carnival, 24th edition

It’s DUFC’s second birthday and it’s being hosted over at Frankie PhD’s. Well, what are you waiting for?

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Silver Down Under Feminist carnival!

Well, what are you hanging around here for? The Down Under Feminist Carnival is having its 25th anniversary, hosted by Rachel Hills of Musings of an Inappropriate Woman. Next month’s DUFC is hosted by...

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Book review – Bearings by Leah Swann

Bearings is a collection of short stories, published by the Melbourne publisher Affirm Press as part of their Long Story Shorts project “to publish six collections of short fiction from individual...

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At Home with Julia: didn’t fail to disappoint

The AGE must have thought At Home With Julia was a doco, because they had an item about it in the News section today. “Slight it certainly was, but not fundamentally unkind – to the Prime Minister at...

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