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Poster art of beautiful flowering plants in terracotta pots on a balcony with a blue sky background: birds are swooping and a small mouse at the base of a flowerpoint looks at the viewer.

SIgnal Boosting: Surly Amy’s Skeptic and Atheist Do Better Challenge

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As an atheist, I do not get to find solace in the idea that I have an afterlife to plan for. I have to make peace with the idea that this one life is all that I have and that every single solitary moment counts right now. It counts in moments, that are slowly ticking away. And while I also have to realize that while there is no God keeping track of those moments and my actions within them, that none-the-less they matter.

Woman in Wonder Woman costume laughs with child in WW shirt.

Signal Boost: Wonder Women!

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This coming Saturday at the Mitchell Library, in Sydney, there will be a screening of a new American-made documentary about the history and influence of Wonder Woman. Afterwards there will be a panel discussion with some amazing local wonder women: Nicola Scott, Feisty Cuffs, Queenie Chan and Mystic Medusa will be chatting with filmmaker and journalist Daz Chandler.

Head-and-shoulders of Wendy McCarthy, suit jacket.

Signal Boost: Pamela Denoon Lecture

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People who can get to Canberra: this year’s Pamela Denoon lecture is the 25th Anniversary of the event. The speech will be given by Wendy McCarthy AO, and many previous speakers and committee members will be attending for this special occasion.

Staring at men’s crotches

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Vice recently posted a fashion spread today called “Groin Gazing.” It features a series of photos by Claire Milbrath with styling by Mila Franovic, and the photos are framed tight on the clothed junk for your viewing pleasure. The models… Read More ›

I die of love

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I wish so much that I had been able to buy Miriam Elia’s book, We Go to the Art Gallery before it was stomped on by Penguin books. I do love a bit of mothering and nihilism in art galleries,… Read More ›

B&W of Kate Hepburn in very silly costume, with a goat mask on a stick.

Friday Hoyden: Beatrice

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The way women are treated by men in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is awful, but don’t let that fool you into thinking this is an anti-women play. This is a play that exposes everything that is foolish and harmful about fearing female sexuality, or about doubting female capacity for steadfastness.