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The team behind lip magazine invites you to:

Sweet 16 on Halloween

to celebrate the launch of our 16th issue

Date: Friday 24 October
Time: 8-11pm
Location: The Front Gallery & Café
Entry: $6 and you get a ticket into our raffle prize!

There will be live bands, artist’s exhibition,
a film instillation and
prizes for the best Halloween costume!

Come along and bring your friends
for a night filled with fun and creepy costumes.

This is an all-ages event.

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                Sex and the City: The Movie Sequel - It’s Happening!!

After recent realease that Candace Bushnell is writing the prequels to Sex and the City.

Last week, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, and director/writer Michael Patrick King, who attended the SATC DVD realease party confirmed the Sex and the City: The Movie sequel!

Even the head of West Coast’s HBO programming Michael Lombardo, confessed that the Sequel is already underway.

Want More Information?

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00016971.html

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I thought I’d just share with you something inspiring that I came across today. It reminds me that although smaller publications may have to struggle a bit more than their mainstream rivals, there’s still hope.

US feminist magazine Bitch released a video on YouTube a couple of days ago, asking for help to keep the publication going. As a non-profit indie magazine, they were really struggling with finding funds for another issue and there was a danger that the current issue was going to be the last. So they went to the readers, saying that they needed to earn $40,000 to keep the mag going, and that any donations would be greatly appreciated.

Amazingly, in just three days, they have surpassed that goal and now have $46,000 in the kitty.  It just goes to show, readers can make such a difference in determining the fate of a magazine. So, kudos goes out to all the lip readers. You guys are awesome… keep reading and let your mates know about lip as well.  Same goes for the other alternative publications you read. By spreading the word, you can ensure that young women know that there is reading material out there that offers an alternative to the near-identical, sex and fashion obsessed content filling so many magazines today. Cheers.

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There are bras for 1st graders, g-strings for toddlers… now high heels shoes for babies!!

TWO US mums have launched a firm that sells baby high heels.

They sold their first shoes 14 weeks ago and haven’t looked back.

“Oh yeah, it draws attention,” Jenelle Kulaas said. “People see them and are like, ‘Those are hilarious’.”

Read the full article here

What’s next, fishnets for foetuses? Glamour ultrasound photos?

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hey lip-sters!

we’re looking for a feature article to go into next month’s newsletter. so if you have something to say get writing! your article would be featured in the newsletter and be posted to the lip blog.

articles should be no longer than 2000 words in length and can be on any topic you like. so get cracking and send your article to kimberly@lipmag.com no later than 23rd september.

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boycotting air
by Emma Coaldrake

its 3am and i am not quite certain whether or not i’m on the correct side of the mirror. i do not remember if i am right or left handed. if the moonlight trickling in through my bedroom window is casting peculiar shadows on the wall or if it’s a parlour trick of reflection. i do not remember putting the music on low or lighting these candles or writing lines from hamlet on the back wall of my room, which appears and disappears with the slightest turn of my head, in a direction i cannot ascertain.

i hold my breath.

‘i am boycotting the whole idea of air.’ i whisper to the languid form of the girl lying at my feet. if i turn my head i can see the curve of her hip, her fingertips stretching out over black blankets she reaches for the sharpie at the foot of the bed and crawls to my side

‘black stars,’ i slur, baring the pale skin of my wrists to the wrath of ink. she smiles slightly and instead writes

‘let the things
you love
be your escape’ over faded scars. ‘i want to photograph you,’ i confess.

‘why do you need pictures, when you have scars?’ she mumbles, tracing my lips with her index finger.

i exhale.

‘so much for boycotting the idea of air,’ she chuckles. the notes of her voice making patterns on the folds of my clothing and i hear the break as she inhales again, pressing eyelashes together and moving her lips to words and thoughts i wish she would voice.

‘i think i am lost.’ i say to her serene face.

‘in what?’

‘in you.’

her eyelashes flutter open and she manages once again to embed herself into my veins. she uncaps the sharpie again and reaches for my forearm.

‘my love is messy.’

she scrawls, re-caps the sharpie and throws it behind her.

‘and mine’s too tidy.’ i run my fingers through her hair and i kiss this girl at 3 am, in a room i was not sure that i was even in. and for a moment the whole room disappears, and i do not need to turn my head.

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the teenager’s survival cookbook
jake farriss; pan macmillan

reviewed by Kylie

With the increasing reports from health experts of Australian obesity rates in the media it’s obvious that it’s time to get back to basics. Yes, things are dearer these days: have you ever noticed how much cheaper it is to eat a meal at a fast food outlet than go into a café and have a healthy lunch?

Still, healthy eating can, and should, begin in the home and to help set you up is The Teenager’s Survival Cookbook, and no it’s not about being stuck out on an island in the middle of nowhere and having to fend for yourself.

The Teenager’s Survival Cookbook is actually written by a teenager named Jack Farriss. His recipes make your mouth water, leaving take away meals a thing of the past. Maybe you’ve never picked up a cookbook before, or even stepped into the kitchen to prepare a meal (pouring cereal into a bowl doesn’t count). Each recipe features simple step-by-step instructions which make them perfect for novices.

Some of the recipes in this book include roasted red capsicum soup, vegetarian noodles, chicken fried rice, glazed apple tart, coconut curry and choc chip cookies; I could go on and on. Whether you are cooking for one or a crowd you will find munchies, liquids, savoury and sweet things to eat. Whoever said that teenagers couldn’t cook? There aren’t any accompanying pictures of the recipes but there are snaps every few pages of teenagers smiling and having a fun time together.

This book is recommended for anyone, not just teenagers, who enjoy being in the kitchen. Who knows, you may even give your tastebuds a new insight into the world of cooking. And when you have finished with this book you may even end up more famous than Jamie Oliver, although this may just be in your dreams.

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The team behind lip magazine invites you to:
Sweet 16 on Halloween
to celebrate the launch of our 16th issue

Date: Friday 24 October
Time: 8-11pm
Location: The Front Gallery & Café
Entry: $6 and you get a ticket into our raffle prize!

There will be live bands, artist’s exhibition, a film instillation and prizes for the best Halloween costume! Come along and bring your friends for a night filled with fun and creepy costumes. This is an all-ages event.
Watch this space for more information.

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Log into your Facebook or MySpace account, search briefly and you will find the socially accepted genre for display pictures. Drinking in the streets, passing out, kissing a stranger; these used to be the source of acute embarrassment for one the morning after and now are posted for the whole world to see.

And what makes this worse is that the main offenders are young women. These girls are posting pictures of themselves in a drunken mess, holding a bottle of wine in one hand and pouring vodka with the other. In fact, girls are posting pictures that are much more problematic. These are the photos of themselves in lingerie, kissing their boyfriends, friends and strangers. These are the photos that boys consider an invitation to sex; the posing, the nudity and the sexual gestures. Many are going beyond an expression of individuality.

Today, many girls are peer pressured into exploiting their bodies and changing the way they look to suit their friends. Some of which become exposed to eating disorders, sexual misconduct, binge drinking, drug-use, violence and depression. The list goes on. And who would have thought that our social networking sites have become a domain for this behaviour and the consequences that follow.  

A friend of mine created her first online account at the start of year 10. She became a victim to social peer pressure. Many of her friends had posted pictures of themselves partially naked. It seemed to be the cool thing to do. She wasn’t a size 6, nor was she ever insecure about herself, until now. Her pictures became promiscuous as the months went on. But she still believed she was too big compared to her friends, while others began to criticise her skeleton-like figure. Yes, she became a victim to anorexia and was hospitalised at the end of the year.

Not long ago, a girl from another school had posted indecent exposed pictures of herself online. Some of her peers then printed and posted these pictures around the school, humiliating her. She felt she was psychologically scarred for life and never returned to the school.

These are only two examples of the reality this problem presents.

These girls need to screw their heads back on, think about the consequences of their actions and think about the person they have or will become, or better yet, the person they have the ability to influence.

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