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Racebending on Star Trek Into Darkness

By tigtog on May 15, 2013

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m a big fan of the Cumberbatch, and I thoroughly enjoyed his performance as the villain in the latest Star Trek movie so long as I could forget his character’s name:

SPOILERS!

Posted in arts & entertainment, ethics & philosophy, social justice | Tagged erasure, films, race & racism, WTF were they thinking? | 19 Responses

Because we fail to notice that we fail to notice

Because we fail to notice that we fail to notice

By tigtog on September 5, 2012

A poem by R.D. Laing

Posted in arts & entertainment, ethics & philosophy, social justice | Tagged erasure, marginalisation, poetry, the examined life

Utopia Girls: I'm disappointed

Utopia Girls: I’m disappointed

By Guest Hoyden on June 26, 2012

Guest Blogger Alex “Skud” Bayley reviews a documentary aired on the ABC about women’s suffrage in Australia, Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote.

Posted in arts & entertainment, history, social justice | Tagged classism, documentaries, erasure, race & racism, reviews, suffragists | 5 Responses

Femmostroppo Reader – November 20, 2009

By tigtog on November 20, 2009

Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Meet The Predators: But Which Ones? – Trigger Warning for discussions of sexual violence Not The Man I Know – “But the statement also purports to know a man better than [...]

Posted in linkfest | Tagged blogging, erasure, fail, race & racism, rape, Read-ems

Hack – “Is your taste in music sexist?” A transcript.

By Lauredhel on July 15, 2009

I’ve finished transcribing Triple J’s Hack programme on the “Hottest 100 of All Time”. For the background on this, see these previous posts: “Was the Hottest 100 Of All Time sexist? asks Triple J’s Hack” “Alternative Youth Music Station Thinks There’s No Alternative to Being a Bloke” [Please note that this is a quick 'n' [...]

Posted in arts & entertainment, Culture, gender & feminism, media | Tagged australia, erasure, female, hack, hottest 100 of all time, music, voting, women | 17 Responses

Was the Hottest 100 Of All Time sexist? asks Triple J’s Hack

By Lauredhel on July 13, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, guest Hoyden Orlando asked why Triple J’s first draft of a “potted history of music” failed to showcase significant numbers of women. (The history has since been edited.) The “Hottest 100 Of All Time” has since aired, and audiences have been shocked to find that only two songs in the [...]

Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism | Tagged australia, democracy, erasure, female, feminists, hottest 100 of all time, music, radio, sexism, sexist, voting, women | 13 Responses

Alternative Youth Music Station Thinks There’s No Alternative to Being a Bloke

By Guest Hoyden on June 30, 2009

Today’s Guest Hoyden is regular commentor orlando, who returned to Sydney last year after a time living in the UK. Over at Triple J right now it’s “Male Week”. The ABC’s Australia-wide, government funded youth music radio station has dedicated this week to examining what it is to be a man in Australia. Which would [...]

Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism, media | Tagged australia, erasure, hack, music, orlando, radio, sexism, sexist, voting, women | 64 Responses

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