Looking for an opportunity to write?
Look no further! Brisbane-based journalist Alana Scott is calling for contributions for a non-fiction project ‘Frangipani in an Ashtray’ – a collection of women’s break-up stories and dating disasters. Submissions can be any length and about any type of dating experience or break-up disaster but must be non-fiction and non-defamatory. Contributers will not be paid [...]
eclipse : more disappointing than twilight?
Now, I know I’m not the most Twilight-sympathetic person. I doubt any feminist could be. With passive female characters, and possessive, blood-sucking boyfriends, Twilight is hardly a tale of female empowerment. However, a recently released clip from the soon-to-be-released third installment in the series, Eclipse, had me almost gagging in disgust, even more so than [...]
album review : yeasayer, odd blood
(Secretly Canadian, 2010) Following live appearances with MGMT and Beck, Canadian arty, falsetto-voices- echoes-and-cymbals in a blender trio, Yeasayer, have released their second album, Odd Blood. Having read the odd article here and there, I was both intrigued and wary of a band that might be too painfully hip for their own good. Did you [...]
The shape of things
Curvy. Voluptuous. Two words that are often used to describe the female form. Recently, I’ve read something by someone (vague enough for you?) making derisive comments about fat women using these describers. They said fat women were deluding themselves. Except … no. No, they’re not. Curvy and voluptuous are body shapes. Fat women can be [...]
book review: bleed for me by Michael Robotham
I really wanted to like this book. No, I really wanted to dive into it and feel it thick and gluggy and totally enveloping. I didn’t, but I wasn’t wholly disappointed either. Michael Robotham is a Sydney-based author with impressive credentials. The Night Ferry and Shatter were shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers Association Steel [...]
films: new this week, 20th may
Harry Brown (Dir. Daniel Barber) Harry Brown, starring two-time Academy Award winner Michael Caine, is a violent, visceral film that pits the moral codes of stiff upper-lipped Old Britainia (represented by Michael Cain’s law-abiding senior citizen) against modern Britain (where the wild youths run rampant). When Brown’s only friend is killed, he becomes obsessed with [...]
film review: jennifer’s body
Needy (Amanda Seyfried) is the dorky long-term best friend of popular Jennifer (Megan Fox). After a mysterious encounter with a visiting rock band Jennifer starts to behave strangely. When boys from their school are found brutally murdered, Needy begins to fear that her gorgeous friend might be responsible. Needy desperately races to discover the truth [...]
film review: new york, i love you
From the producers of Paris J’Taime comes New York, I Love You, which features short films from 11 international directors, but falls short of its predecessor. Unlike the former, the film does not introduce each segment with the director/writers credits which I believe was a much more suitable way to structure such a film. As [...]
Eat my leaf – saying those things you really want to say at moments when you really want to say them
Many of us pretend fight. We see these pretend fights in movies and television shows, to which we can relate. And these are inspiring. I always feel excited to get out there and tell the world my feelings when I see someone else stand up for their rights and fight back. There are plenty of [...]
ethical is fashionable!
I’m not usually interested in the glitz and glamour of Fashion Week – or the painfully underweight models (unless you think of it as an extreme sport, in which case size 6 is errr… extreme) but this year started out a little differently. Ginger & Smart and Lisa Ho opened the show basking in the [...]
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