What’s Your Opinion?
Hello all, I am writing about the arts industry in australia for the next issue of lip. *Fingers crossed* I’m also doing a vox pop, and wanted to get the lip staff’s opinion too. So the question is: What’s your opinion of the arts industry, in Australia? Do you think it gets enough funding, or [...]
young women of the year
The Pantene Young Women of the Year Awards are now open for nominations. These are an initiative of Yen mag. It’s all such a touchy-feely idea to honour inspiring young women, but get a load of the website: http://www.pywya.net. The logo is driving me crazy. It says to me these awards aren’t for the hard-working [...]
reading
Have you ever finished reading a book that was so moving you had trouble knowing what to do directly after finishing it? You hold it a little bit longer and contemplate the fact that you can’t start another one right away because it seems like some kind of betrayal and you can’t really listen to [...]
my response (see previous blog)
Hi Nicole, Yep, your phone conversation was a spark. >We think Ms. USA has accomplished less than say a >similarly aged woman who has a PhD. Even though I can >make the argument that Ms. USA has probably spent as>much time and effort into looking like she does as the doctor has in studying and [...]
raunch
My sister and I have been debating about beauty as a means to power. She emailed me after reading the raunch culture article I wrote in the mag. I thought I’d post our first two emails here as a way to continue the discussion. First email from Nicole: R, I am slowly making my way [...]

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