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Life at 5: group shot of parents and children

Life at 1, 3, 5: general discussion

By Mary on 2011-02-27

Now that I’ve done the specific posts, does anyone have thoughts about the Life series in general?

Life at 1, 3, 5: disability

By Mary on 2011-02-26 • ( 6 )

The Life at 1, 3 and 5 treatment of disability could have been worse with either a more tragic air or the Fighting Fat episode’s constant refrain of “risk” but that this is still a particularly problematic area for the show to be keeping its tight focus on the particular impact on the abled child when talking about family members with disabilities.

Open Letter to Melbourne Queer Film Festival attendees

By Guest Poster on 2011-02-25 • ( 18 )

This guest post is from Jonathan Williams, a member of the MQFF trans selection panel, a body which did NOT select one particular trans-themed film which has been included in the festival program.

US High Schools refusing to allow student atheist groups

By tigtog on 2011-02-25 • ( 10 )

The level of bigotry against atheists in the USA frequently appals me; this article by Greta Christina lays out one of the less obvious ways it is expressed.

LIBERATE

By tigtog on 2011-02-24 • ( 14 )

Things are moving so fast around Northern Africa and the Middle East right now. History in the making.

Update: I’m designating this as an open thread on the uprisings and the attempts to suppress them.

Hover

By hatbluemilk on 2011-02-23 • ( 2 )

From the photographic series, The Girl Who Loves to Levitate by Natsumi Hayashi. “We are all surrounded by social stress as we are bound by the forces of earth’s gravity,” Natsumi says when asked why she took on the series…. Read More ›

Whoydensday: Vale Nicholas Courtney (1929-2011)

By Beppie on 2011-02-23 • ( 9 )

Raise a glass tonight for Nicholas Courtney, who played UNIT’s Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge Stewart in Doctor Who, appearing with the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctors, and also in a 2008 episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. He… Read More ›

Gorgeous BAFTA artwork

By tigtog on 2011-02-23 • ( 1 )

BAFTA apparently commission a different graphic artist every year to come up with 5 posters in their own style for each of the Best Picture nominees, and they use these 5 images as covers for these brochures that they hand out to all attendees.

Joshua's height is measured (Life at 3, ABC)

Life at 3: obesity

By Mary on 2011-02-22 • ( 2 )

Life at 3: Fighting Fat. Ooo boy. It probably wasn’t ever going to be good, was it? Good food, bad food, headless fatties and children in marginalised families reduced to obesity risks.