lip lit: gil scott-heron, the last holiday
In theory, The Last Holiday is an autobiographical account of the concert tour which resulted in legislation to make Martin Luther King’s birthday a public holiday. Author Gil Scott-Heron did a huge 41-city tour, supporting Stevie Wonder throughout America. The tour promoted Wonder’s Hotter than July album, which included the song “Happy Birthday” – a [...]
Books for budding feminists: Caitlin Moran, How to be a woman
Finding something that makes you laugh hysterically, clutch your chest at a shared painful memory and then reminisce fondly on the way you fumbled through it is really quite difficult. It’s pretty hard to write something that one person, let alone thousands, can relate to like this, but Caitlin Moran has done just that in [...]
Books for budding feminists: Slut! Growing up female with a bad reputation
This book by Leora Tanenbaum is all about growing up female with a bad reputation. It is novel about slut bashing, sexual encounters and the horrors of group mentality. Primarily it all comes down to sexual inequality and the problems it is causing. My favourite part about this book is the afterword because it includes [...]
melbourne: a quick guide to the cbd
Although I haven’t lived there for over four years now, I do like to think of myself as a Melbourne local. This guide includes some of the places in the CBD and its surrounds that I like to take visiting non-Melbournians; the others have been shown to me by people who have a bigger claim [...]
welcome to lip’s bookshop!
Avid Facebook followers may have noticed that Lip has “opened” a bookshop! Basically, I keep moving house and having to lug books around the place, and so I suggested to the Lip ladies that we sell our pre-loved books to you, our much-loved readers! Don’t you find it’s that much easier to part with books [...]
thoughts on ‘full frontal feminism’ and changing your last name
Right now, I’m reading Full Frontal Feminism, by Jessica Valenti, the founder of Feministing. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it – on the one hand, I find it a very accessible read, especially for younger feminists or for people who are first starting to get into feminism and who find a lot [...]
is it okay: to read certain books in public?
There are things it is definitely not okay to do in public. Such as: be naked for no good reason, have overly emotive and loud conversations, stare at strangers for prolonged periods of time, and vigorously use dental floss. I have only ever been guilty of one of these things. However a recent encounter involving [...]
plastic ain’t so fantastic
Over the course of the weekend, I strayed from my traditional toilet-time reading pile (which usually consists of Lawrence’s works or Donne poetry) for reasons that are still unbeknownst to me, and found myself instead reading what can only be described as ‘chick lit’. The toilet seemed to me to indeed be the only appropriate [...]
Books for budding feminists, Eve Ensler, the vagina monologues
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler is a book I honestly believe every man, woman and young adult should read – excuse the cliché. It is unlike anything I have ever read before and was so gripping that I read it in one very emotional sitting. The book was first written in 1966 after Ensler [...]
books for budding feminists: natasha walter, living dolls: the return of sexism
The main thing I learnt by reading this book is that the sexism that existed pre-1950s is definitely sneaking back into society. While today it is mostly swept under the rug and hidden away, there remain aspects that are right out in the open just begging us, as women, to make a move to change [...]
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