Greetings online lip readers! Ms Lip is a new online advice column conceived and made just for the online community. If you have any questions you would like answered please email [email protected] with your questions and do keep in mind that you will remain completely anonymous. I aim to provide honest and real advice to…
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Saturday 16 May: Young writers will have a chance to discover the secrets of publishing at Getting Published, a free panel held at Civic Library. Have you always wanted to be published, but don’t know where to start? Is your inbox full of polite (and not so polite) rejections? Want to find out how successful…
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I was having a discussion with a co-worker earlier about what kind of man would be considered a gentleman. In Victorian times it was a title associated with nobility (wealth and social position), and “It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.” Nowadays we use the…
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‘The Poetic Revolution’: An exposé of contemporary, underground poetry that explores the current renaissance of poetic expression in Australia, revealing how modern poets measure against the classics. I’m asking why the poetry sections of bookstores are primarily filled with classical poetry and why we tend to reach for the classics first. This comparative anthology aims…
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Because of many so-called “beauty standards”, Tiara Shafiq feels she is. In her home country, Malaysia, where most people have dark skin, fair skin is touted as the ideal of loveliness. An Australian size 12-14 translates to a XXL. And smooth, hair-free legs is also an expected feature of a “beautiful” woman. Yet, I’m sure…
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Some of you will be aware of my feelings about bikinis from a previous lip blog. I wanted to share this quote from Susan Brownmiller, from her book on femininity, the chapter about bodies and fashion. Having described the history of the corset and girdle, and making the point that it is only recently that…
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The University of Sydney is currently conducting a study looking at the effects of genital image and body image on the sexual functioning of women. Within the study they’ll be looking at how physical perception of oneself can impact on one’s sexual self-esteem and whether genital image concerns influence comfort during sexual activity. The ultimate…
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I stumbled across this site late last night and thought it was something that should be shared. If anyone out there uses or has heard of digg.com then you’ll get what this site is about. It’s basically a site of user generated content and the most popular (or most clicked) news links move to the…
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On March 8th, the world celebrates International Women’s Day. On Friday the 13th of March, women all over Australia, including Nicola Parsons, will be shaving their hair off to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. For Nicola, this event represents a rite of passage, a tribute to women past who have defied social customs and…
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A new government initiative – the Body Image National Advisory Board – met for the first time this week and will be working towards combating the prevalence of negative body image amongst girls, and recognising how the media and fashion industries play a huge part in this. Over the next five months the group will…
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Check out this: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/ 2009/03/02/apatow_nude/index.html I posted to the lip blog when the original Vanity Fair cover came out. You can find a picture of it at http://stereogum.com/img/scarlett_johannson_nude.jpg. This also shows how unoriginal women’s sexuality is these days; would you have known that was Scarlett Johansen?
I would like to open a discussion about pole dancing, in light of the article in the current issue. Pole dancing may be a cliched, trite and easy imagining with which to simplisticly infuse post and radical feminist dichotomies, but as a feminist leaning towards the radical, and wary of the significance and acceptance of…
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Just ’cause summer’s almost over, doesn’t signal the end of the festival season. Yeah, the Canberra Show’s on this weekend… but so much much better than that is CORINBANK!!! I can smell the chai and mulled wine already… mmmm! If you haven’t heard of the “Deliberately intimate. Incredibly beautiful. Totally immersive” Corinbank festival, you’ll be…
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Our friends over at Vignette Press are launching the second in their mook series: The Death Mook: how do we die? “In a culture both death-denying and death-obsessed, The Death Mook creates a space for writers and artists to talk about death in creative and unorthodox ways. Thus, this collection of essays, stories, vignettes and…
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