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Best Stuff Of 2015
BEST MOVIES I watched a lot of movies this year because: Netflix. What Maisie Knew: I showed this to my seven-year-old because she was complaining that her parents always ‘agree with each other’ (and...
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PSA For Ladies In Particular: The heavier you are the stronger your bones.
Scientists at the University of Auckland have been studying bones and calcium supplements, and I think it’s of interest to all women, in particular, not just for bone reasons. Prof Ian Reid talks to...
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In Which I Now Have A Mobile Phone And Nobody Is Confused
My love of online shopping correlates exactly with my hatred of going to the actual shops. Why do I dislike shops so much? I don’t know. It’s crowded. I can never find stuff because shops keep...
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Weird Humans: Not actually the Internet’s fault
If you’re in the habit of second hand shopping for books at the Mitchell Dump you end up with a rather strange collection on your reading pile. One of my finds is a falling-apart Penguin paperback...
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The Wire Ruined Me For Other TV (For A Little While)
The Wire Is NOT Like Dickens from Salon A poster with all the main characters from The Wire on it, from co.Design What Stringer Bell Can Teach Us About Gangs, from The Society Pages An interview on...
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Crap I’ve Been Watching On Netflix
There’s this study where people are asked which movies off a list they want to watch. People pick the movie equivalent of Literature, the good films they think they should watch in order to be...
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Why are those girls even friends?
Helen Garner writes of the real life friendship between Anu Singh and Madhavi Rao in her book Joe Cinque’s Consolation: Perhaps they are most flagrant in adolescence: one girl is wild, bossy, selfish,...
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Diary of a Goth Girl (free iBook)
If you have an iPad and/or a Mac and an offbeat sense of humour you may be interested in downloading Diary of a Goth Girl, an illustrated short story for YA. I wrote it in 2009, it was published in...
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Helpful Unhelpful Tips For Women
A guy walks into a bar, slips a pill into a woman’s drink. But it’s okay you see, because he’s set up cameras. Surprise! This is a public service announcement. “I wouldn’t drink that if I were you,” he...
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References to New Zealand in Fiction
Now, I am not generally given over to excitement, but Neutral Milk Hotel sort of changed my life. They released this absolutely fantastic album called In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in 1998 and haven’t...
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Feminist Film Review: Interstellar (2014)
HOW DOES this film RATE FOR INCLUSIVENESS? As I was watching my thoughts were more about race. This story is set in the near future, when current children are about 60 years old. In that real world...
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Women and Sport
I have recently found myself in the most unlikely position: On the board of a local sports association. Anyone who knows my former real life glasses-wearing book-reading self would be surprised at the...
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The Inspector Gadget Remake Summarises How Children’s Media Has Changed
In which girl character and dog character have equal billing Interestingly, Esquire calls this ‘the digital era’, under the idea that the use of computers has an integral impact on narrative. The...
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On Little Red Riding Hood
I am currently a bit of an expert on Little Red Riding Hood — self-described — having just done a bunch of reading from the world’s experts, and making my way through Jack Zipes’ anthology of all the...
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The Female Gaze
[Guest Post] Young Avengers #1: Sex and the Female Gaze from Bad Reputation The Bachelor, Shirtless Men, And The Dawn Of The Female Gaze from GMP “Hot Dudes Reading” Instagram Reverses The Male Gaze...
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The Male Gaze
One of the most important essays in contemporary film theory: Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey (1975), which has some weird Freudian stuff in it but is still relevant for the...
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Some Links On Japan
Most news that comes out of Japan is of the ‘quirky’ kind, in which we’re encouraged to view Japan as some bizarre culture we couldn’t possibly understand. (Note that ‘quirky’ is a loaded,...
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Are TV Crime Series Becoming Less Sexist?
I wouldn’t call myself a fan of crime fiction. I have a grim fascination for true crime, so long as it’s done well, and if you curate your true crime well, you can achieve a fascinating insight into...
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No, you are not entitled to your opinion
Huffington Post publishes some crap, sure, but recently published a list of Books Women Think Men Should Read and I happen to have read a lot of them and it’s a pretty good list. It includes Delusions...
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On Cowgirls
Now that my daughter is in Year One, proper homework has started. The kind where a parent has to be involved, because they don’t quite know how to do it themselves. Yesterday it took half an hour to...
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