lip lit interview: kathy lette
Every Australian girl remembers the moment she read the classic Puberty Blues by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey. My mother gave it to me when I was 13 – I think in a sneaky effort to warn me about the unromantic side of sex – and I remember being scandalised, intrigued and mystified all at [...]
(sex)uality: the united states’ “war on women”
At the moment in the United States, there are things happening to challenge women’s reproductive rights. It is being referred to as the “War on Women”. States all across America are passing legislation in record numbers to dissuade, delay or stop women from making choices about their own reproductive health. It has become so overwhelmingly [...]
live below the line
I like to think myself a thrifty person. In true accordance with the student stereotype, my dinners usually consist of either vegemite toast or cheap Vietnamese takeaway, and yet my financial standing still has a tendency to stray into the red. So to curb this worrying trend, I have joined the thousands partaking in Living [...]
Polish & Prime: So what are serums, anyway?
In the past year or so, I’ve noticed what seems to be a new beauty product on the market – facial serums. I know they’ve been around for awhile, but it only seems recently that they are being pushed to be an everyday part of our skincare regime. I was curious to do some research [...]
feminist news round-up 06.05.12
mali: women’s rights set back 50 years Mali is a strongly patriarchal society where women need to ask permission from their husbands just to leave the house. Feminist groups have been campaigning to change the laws of Mali to enable women to get basic rights and make educating all girls an attainable goal. The [...]
fantasy man: one woman’s experience working with noel fielding
For Bella Gray, working with Noel Fielding, flamboyant co-creator of The Mighty Boosh, still seems like a surreal dream. Employed as a buyer and costume assistant for Fielding’s latest television show, Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, Gray dashed around London, collecting aluminium foil, glitter and neon coloured fabric – anything to support Fielding’s absurdist visual humour. [...]
the vintage trend: feminist weddings, altar your thinking!
Old = patriarchal wedding traditions New = consumerist ‘bridezillas’ Borrowed = societal pressures from bygone days Blue = feminists!!! For those who have decided that a “married feminist” is not an oxymoron, it’s time to reconsider the meaning behind those wedding trappings and discard some of the traditions from an act that is so, well [...]
culture valkyrie: one direction where?
So, it has come to this. We are sour, elderly curmudgeons, squinting at our television screens and muttering into our handkerchiefs, “Which is this ‘One Direction’ of which you speak?” The good news is, it’s not some creepy cult the kids have all joined. (Or is it? Surely, there are subliminal forces at work here, [...]
science stuff : peak phosphorus, food for thought
If you’re anything like me, you like to eat. In fact, if you’re anything like any human being on the planet, you like to eat. Without food we end up dying. So it figures that anything to do with ‘food security’ should be on our proverbial plate. It scared me somewhat that ‘peak phosphorus’ had [...]
honour this sistagirl: stop transphobic and racist deaths in custody
Aboriginal woman, Veronica Baxter, was born in Cunnamulla country in outback Queensland and died in Silverwater Metropolitan Reception and Remand Centre, NSW. On 16 March 2009, she was found dead in her prison cell hanging from a bed sheet. She was just 34 years old. Veronica, a Sistagirl, had lived as woman since she was [...]
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