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arts & entertainment
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BFTP: This is what we use it for
The SF authors of the past might well have been surprised by the essential triviality of the way most of us use this amazing worldwide communication system we enjoy, but should they have been?
Quicklink: Ashley Judd’s call to action on The Conversation about women’s looks
Great analysis from actor Ashley Judd in the Daily Beast regarding media speculation about her “puffy face” last month.
Sunday Singalong: Salt n Pepa
Salt n Pepa’s hip hop songs were filled to the brim with feminist messages about self-respect and sexual autonomy from “Let’s Talk About Sex” to “Ain’t Nuthin But A She Thing” and their songs were sooo catchy.
Actually, fairytales weren’t always so sexist
What modern mother hasn’t cringed at the pink and passive fairy tale princesses served up to her impressionable girl? The Disney versions of Snow White and Cinderella, Belle and Rapunzel are heroines of such vapid foolishness one wonders how they… Read More ›
Back from MICF tomorrow
Here are just some of the shows I’ve seen in the last week at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. I got a good day’s rest yesterday (most performers don’t do Monday shows, so it’s a chance for everybody to catch… Read More ›
Sunday Poet: Adrienne Rich
These are the words that made me love Adrienne Rich’s work: This is what living with children could be – without school hours, fixed routines, naps, the conflict of being both mother and wife with no room for being simply,… Read More ›
GoT – Why so young?
Why so young?
Sunday Poet: Maya Angelou
Dr Maya Angelou has changed autobiographical writing forever for all women, but especially for black women. I cannot tell you how much I love Dr Angelou’s poem, Still I Rise and there is something so special about hearing her recite… Read More ›
Quick Hit: Project Unbreakable [Trigger Warning]
This post and the link it takes you to comes with a big trigger warning for use of the words of sexual attackers.
Late last year, Grace Brown started an art project called Project Unbreakable. It involves photographing men and women holding posters which contain something that their attacker/s said to them immediately before, during, or after their attack.
Hoyden About Town 