festivals and work experience
On Saturday lip had a stall at the Canberra Readers and Writers Festival. I didn’t get to see much in the way of panels or workshops, but had a pretty good day nonetheless. Thanks to everyone who bought magazines and buttons – bringing us much closer to our print budget goal for issue 14. And [...]
Canberra Readers and Writers Festival – this weekend
The theme is Icy Worlds: Cool Words and features over 40 International and Australian Authors. It will be held alongside the Lifeline BookFair at Exhibition Park in Canberra from 21-23 September. Highlights include appearances by the 2007 NSW Premier’s Award winning authors Ursula Dubosarsky and Gideon Haigh as well as Canadian mystery writers Louise Penny [...]
phone interviews
I just finished a phone interview with a film director for an article I’m writing for next issue (don’t ask who, or which film, you’ll just have to wait for the mag to come out). Phone interviews are stressful: you don’t know when the batteries in your tape recorder are going to go flat, or [...]
No wonder they treat us as sex objects…
Considering our recent discussions about lad’s mags, I found this article in The Guardian particularly interesting. “…It is no wonder a lot of men now genuinely believe that women want to be treated as sex objects. Who could blame them when so many of us have internalised an exhibitionistic ideal of our own objectification?” – [...]
Lad mags and consent
I commented recently about the issue of consent around the submission and publication of photos of women’s cleavage in Zoo’s competition. It appears lad mags like Zoo and FHM have little regard for this concept, but maybe this will change after courts yesterday found FHM guilty of publishing a photo of a topless 14-year-old without [...]
what do you think of the glossies?
Natasha Hughes at SMH asks: Is it really worth buying the glossies… or are they a bit of a disappointment once you get them home? http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beautybeat/archives/2007/09/bag_the_mag.html?s_rid=smh:top5 From the comments, it seems many readers agree: “I stopped reading fashion and beauty magazines when i was 20 years old and my self esteem rose significantly.” “I work [...]
Outrage and Olive branches
Mens magazine, Zoo Weekly, is at it again. Now they’ve launched a competition to find Australia’s ‘sexiest feminist’. There’s so many things wrong with this I don’t know where to start… Search on for Australia’s ‘sexiest feminist’ By Alyssa Braithwaite September 03, 2007 THE men’s magazine which sparked outrage when it offered a $10,000 boob [...]
if you have never seen a full copy of lipmag…
…now’s your chance. We know copies of lip can sometimes be hard to get hold of, so we’re giving you a sneak peak at one of our back issues: #12 – download the full mag in PDF format – FREE (scroll to the bottom of the page for the download link). If you like what [...]
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