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• Media Circus: Abbott’s Xmas gifts to the nation edition

  By tigtog on 2013-12-18 • ( 3 )

  

  If it looks like us pesky citizens might demand a say in what will happen to our country, the Abbott Government’s response is to simply stop the flow of information.

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• The #NotYourAsianSidekick conversation

  By tigtog on 2013-12-17

  

  Watching the white supremacists try to derail the conversation with the #AsianPrivilege hashtag and by coopting the Shoah has been infuriating.

• Wendy and Peter Pan and the RSC

  By tigtog on 2013-12-16 • ( 4 )

  

  Hands up who knew (or at least now remembers that they once knew) that the original play (and subsequent novelisation) by J.M. Barrie was titled “Peter Pan And Wendy” rather than just the “Peter Pan” that current publications and productions favour?

• Geena Davis’ Two Simple Steps To Make Hollywood Less Sexist

  By tigtog on 2013-12-14 • ( 3 )

  

  We all know Hollywood doesn’t give many leading roles to women, or even speaking roles. What I didn’t know, but what Geena Davis’ Institute On Gender In Media has demonstrated through its data analysis, is that Hollywood persistently doesn’t even give women parity in crowd scenes.

• Crowdsourcing the Shakespeare Authorship Question

  By tigtog on 2013-12-13 • ( 3 )

  

  Yet another book.

• This week in negligence towards the disabled: fake signer at Mandela memorial

  By tigtog on 2013-12-12 • ( 6 )

  

  Apparently the ANC had been alerted to the completely unskilled performance of this “interpreter” as long as 18 months ago, but are pointing fingers elsewhere for his selection for the memorial because it was a “state-organised” event.

• Femmostroppo Reader 2013-12-11

  By tigtog on 2013-12-11 • ( 1 )

  

  What items of interest did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments. Shameless self-promotion entirely welcome!

• Vale Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013

  By tigtog on 2013-12-06 • ( 6 )

  

  No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

• Media Circus: some dinosaurs need a Bex and a lie down edition

  By tigtog on 2013-12-04 • ( 1 )

  

  @bencjenkins on how The Australian Would Like You To Get Off Its Goddamn Lawn: is this the best summary out there of possibly the most whargarrbl broadsheet editorial ever?

  What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

• I’m on #teamwerejectyourfalsedichotomy *and* #teamnotgonnashutup

  By tigtog on 2013-12-03 • ( 8 )

  

  So, the whole #teamelan vs #teamdianne thing that’s been keeping a large segment of the twitterverse, bookface and the blogosphere hatertained this weekend?