August 2011
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Help me out with a story I'm working on? →
You know how I hate those baseless news stories about how oversexed (or undersexed) young people are? Well, I’m writing one. Kind of. Except without the baselessness or the sweeping conclusions, and aimed at myth busting rather than myth promoting.
Much of it will be based on research and analysis I’ve already done for my book, but I’d like to flesh out my understanding of the...
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The Musings of an Inappropriate Woman guide to...
As you may have gathered from previous posts on this here blog, I’m getting married in just over two months. Which sounds like a long time away when it comes to most things in this world, but feels like no time at all when you’re said person getting married and you also have double your usual writing load, a book proposal you’d like to finish revising and start shopping around, and need to wrap...
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mytextuality asked: I love your blog and your advice has been invaluable. I have submitted articles to small publications, and although new to all this, I'd love to have a go at larger publications, for practice as much as anything else. But I'm finding it's harder to find contributor's guidelines/contact details the larger the publication. I.e. for the Sydney Morning Herald I can only find a way...
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Men are from bras, women are from penis
”While the feminists and soft men like to kid themselves that they are changing our nature, all they’ve really done is teach men to keep their mouths shut, while our minds still explore exactly the same topics they always have.” – Fairfax reader ”How to explain this to women? There is this thing about men that they cannot completely know. Few people want to believe that...
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depose-deactivated20120930 asked: what was your major in college? in graduate school? :)
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This week’s best reads on gender, art, politics and creativity - chopped up, roasted and served to you on a platter.
‘Invisible man’ Liu Bolin disappears again. (Lost at E Minor)
Camilla Peffer dissects Beyonce’s particular brand of feminism (it falls some place between third wave and post-). (Girls are Made From Pepsi)
The top ten things that piss off...
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How I cope with "fear of writing"
Lately, writing and I have not been getting along well. My freelancing work is going great guns – I’ve become a regular idea machine, stockpiling commissions and invoices to see me through the 4-6 weeks I’ll have to take off in a couple of months to go back to Australia, visit friends and family, get married and go on my honeymoon.
This here blog is going well too, with a flood of new followers...
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If you read one thing this weekend, make it Kate Authur’s profile of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, ‘When Reality TV Fame Runs Dry’:
“We were living each other’s mistakes—everything we were doing, in retrospect, was a mistake. The second we continued on our quest for fame was a mistake.” Spencer said. “This isn’t a business. That was the big thing I didn’t get: Reality TV is not...
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“The young people who took to the streets were making a statement. Denounce this...”
– “A riot is the language of the unheard” | Politics, Poetry and Equality (via congruity)
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“Sometimes it’s easiest to take in a spatter of pimples or ingrown hairs. It’s...”
– Stephanie Georgopulos (via callieefornia)
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“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
– Toni Morrison (via theinterlocutor)
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“You know what you’re saying is important when the power structure brings in...”
– Gloria Steinem: The Future of the Fight for Women’s Rights - The Daily Beast (via saramess)
Worth reading twice.
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“Most of the time, we’re dealing with a moment, a step in a trend. We fail...”
– Seth Godin: History doesn’t always repeat itself… but it usually rhymes.
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To Alexa or not to Alexa...
That is the subject of next week’s mag article.
It’s not just Alexa, though. It’s Olivia Palermo, Daisy Lowe, Lauren Conrad, Whitney Port, Kate and Pippa Middleton, Kim Kardashian, Miranda Kerr, Lara Bingle, Edie Sedgwick and all those women have pushed down on our throats on a daily basis as interesting, aspirational, sparky and fabulous… all by virtue of the fact that...
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“Pop music had often cast women as sweet, bright creatures, but Winehouse’s...”
– Laura Barton on Amy Winehouse
Like every other journalist on the planet, I’m writing a magazine piece this week about Amy Winehouse. But the above quote made me think of another famous British woman: Kate Moss.
When I interviewed Moss last year for Aussie ladymag Cleo, people were eager... 