Friday 24 February 2012

Featured Opinion

men who hate women : can men be feminists too?

lip magazine

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I teach Year 11 and Year 12 English at a state school in Canberra and towards the end of last year a student of mine delivered a presentation about the book, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I haven’t read the the Steig Larsson trilogy but my ears pricked up when my student informed us…
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Wednesday 8 February 2012

Featured Film

bechdel taser: down the trigger-hole of sexual abuse on screen

Sarina Murray

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TRIGGER WARNING! The catch-cry of this column is ‘finding the fun in fail’, but there’s one kind of film-fail (and life-fail) which is never fun. Rape. Not funny when people misappropriate the term to say their facebook was ‘fraped’, not funny when it’s the (bizarrely) critically acclaimed American remake of The Girl With the Dragon…
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