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Media Circus: Lost Dog Finally Found Edition

By tigtog on 2015-01-21 • ( 7 )

I wish there were more feel-good stories like this dominating the news.

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

Black silhouette of an apparently female figure in a top hat on a green background (with some faint writing in the top and bottom thirds), with the words in white: 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review – Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-18 • ( 2 )

My review of Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge Review – Maralinga: The Anangu Story

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-14

My review of Maralinga: The Anangu Story

Alan Rickman photoshopped with an H on his forehead like the holograms in Red Dwarf

Today in Mind Blown, IMDB Division

By tigtog on 2015-01-14 • ( 7 )

[Alan Rickman] auditioned for Chris Barrie’s character Rimmer in Red Dwarf (1988).

1988 was the same year that Die Hard, where Rickman played the villainous Hans Gruber, came out.

My books for the 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-09 • ( 9 )

Annnnd here are the books I plan to read for #AWW2015

Je Suis Charlie graphic from Charlie Hebdo website

Media Circus: #JeSuisCharlie Edition

By tigtog on 2015-01-08 • ( 8 )

I want to be stalwart in solidarity with the French as they resolutely stand against terrorism aimed at the heart of their multicultural democracy, and by extension, our multicultural democracy as well. How to best do that in this swirl of emotion following these murders while refusing to fall into the polarising trap that the terrorists have set for us? I don’t have any easy answers.

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

2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge

By Jo Tamar on 2015-01-08

Getting back on the reading challenge horse 3 years after the Australian Women Writers challenge started!

Sydney’s All About Women festival + Hoyden meetup

By Mary on 2015-01-05 • ( 3 )

The All About Women festival will be held at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 8th March 2015, with speakers including Anita Sarkeesian and Rosie Batty. I suggest we also have a Hoyden meetup that day.