Feminist, Fat and Fabulous blog: Don’t Tell Me What I Can Wear
You know what I’m sick of? Websites and TV programs masquerading as giving women empowering style tips, when they’re really using body shaming language, rigid style ‘rules’, oh, and, other people’s photos without permission! A plus sized blogger was contacted recently and asked to contribute to this article that was being written on a website. [...]
Interview: Cameron Daddo
I had the pleasure to speak to Australia’s own Cameron Daddo, who talked about his experiences in Hollywood, his new film Passengers, and what he really misses about life in Australia. So let’s talk about your new film Passengers. Do you know when it is due to be released in Australia? There is no release date yet. We [...]
The first rule of zine club is…
Actually, I don’t think there are any rules, just lots of options to get your mitts on lots of great zines in between zine fair seasons. There’s 3 and 6-month subscriptions and mixed-zine grab bags for $20 and $50. Check it out at http://zines.bigcartel.com/product/the-zine-club
Feminist, Fat and Fabulous Blog: The Swap
Our clothes swap took place on the weekend. It was at my friend’s place, and let me tell you — if I hadn’t have gotten a lift there, I would not have been able to cart all my stuff with me. I have a LOT of stuff. To be fair, it wasn’t ALL mine. Some [...]
A State of Ignorance
It scares me how many people living within our society are ignorant of the most simple things. Sometimes the ones who are supposed to be the most switched on are the most brainless of the lot. Case in point. I was sitting down having lunch one day last year at university, a place where I [...]
Film Review: Avatar… still topping the charts
Nominated for nine academy awards including best picture, James Cameron is back with the overly hyped film of the year; the science fiction blockbuster, Avatar. The film, having already overtaken Titanic which previously held the record for the highest grossing film of all time, seems to be pleasing most audiences. Avatar has been a long [...]
Feminist, Fat and Fabulous: Dare
This fat woman has always tried to take up as little space as she could. She has tried not to draw attention to herself, good, bad or indifferent. She dressed in dark colours, she hunched her shoulders, she sucked in her stomach. This might have gone on indefinitely if it wasn’t for this fat woman [...]
Pop-stars are Not Just Pretty Faces
Only a few years ago the words “female pop star” would conjure up images of scantily-clad, pouting sex kittens with a vocabulary limited to ‘ooh’, ‘baby’, and the occasional ‘oh, baby’. True to the ‘Ten Things I Hate About You’ classic deadpan, “I want you, I need you, oh, baby, oh, baby,” many of the [...]
film review : nine
Courtney Dawson is joining the lip team as a film reviewer. Expect regular reviews of both blockbusters and indie features, updated here! not quite Nine out of ten Director Rob Marshall’s second musical feature Nine (released eight years after the success of Chicago) follows the story of a once brilliant, but now somewhat troubled Italian [...]
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