In the lead up to its US release, American television was running a curious tout. Apparently, Me Before You was better than The Fault in Their Stars. Um, way to set the bar nice and low. Along with the…
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As a Cinema Studies undergrad, falling asleep during films was a pretty common occurence. In a poorly ventilated Carlton theatre, I’d sleep through a litany of titles deemed, curiously, as classics but…
Why must women’s art be seen as autobiographical when we readily accept the idea of male auteurs spinning fictionalised yarns? In her much analysed video and album Lemonade, Beyoncé may be playing make believe.
This article contains minor spoilers about a film that, admittedly, doesn’t have a great deal of plot twists. For the first half of How to Be Single I assumed I’d write about watching it – and liking it…
A British company has announced it is bringing in menstrual leave, but the notion presents a number of risks for women and equality.
It will be difficult to make headway on gender equality while it is framed as “women’s issues” and no everyone’s problem. The answer? Bring men on board.
Last year, in a very small town with a pretty big university, I wrote a forthcoming book called Internet and Intimacy. A minor point in my book but one with some happily tangential relevance to a slew…
I’d just done a radio interview about The Bachelor. About whether I thought I could watch low-brow television and remain a good feminist. (Whatever that means). I’m an enabler in most areas of life; watch…
There’s visceral reluctance on my part to write anything about Mark Latham’s latest shenanigans. My default policy is to not feed the delusions of egotists who thrive on attention, be it good, be it bad…
A friend - both close and a little odd odd - gave me a novel a few days before I left on a long haul fight. In The Unlikely Event. Judy Blume’s first novel in fifteen years, I like to believe that the…
In recent weeks we’ve been treated to some high-profile cases of inappropriate workplace conduct: the Dutton and Briggs cases which I wrote about last week and more recently the highly misguided cricketer…
Australian politicians have twice reminded us what it feels like for a woman to live in a world where some men don’t actually think very much of us.
Most of my time watching media in 2015 wasn’t particularly pleasurable. The vast majority of the films I saw - and also, in fact, most of the TV episodes - were in preparation for the writing of two books…
That I had both an iPad and iPhone in my bag at the time but rummaged for a pen and wrote quotes straight onto my forearm felt right - felt fitting - while watching Steve Jobs. Biro on bare skin felt like…
Paternalism is a loaded, buttock-clenching, devil of a notion. For feminists, it’s up there with all the worst of the P-words. Like panties and pussy and phlegm. Paternalism was certainly the word on my…
Sandwiched on my Facebook feed between a dancing dinosaurs gif and something tritely motivational involving a watercolour, was a plea from a Brisbane teen urging the new PM to take a $1 salary. The gist…
There was only one blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reason I bothered watching Netflix’s Narcos. Anal sex. A semi-regular delight in my inbox is messages from friends, acquaintances - sometimes people I don’t…
The Bachelor is the perfect screen depiction of the male fantasy of scantily clad women pillow-fighting for his affections.
One of my best friends often talks about the banter. That he and I have great banter. Completely true, of course. Across hours, across time zones, there is a high quality, exuberantly-talking-over-the-top-of-one-another…
I’d ran out lives on whichever extreme candy/maniac/heroes game I’d been playing. And, alas, the in-flight entertainment was the old-school variety where showtimes are fixed and waiting ten minutes feels…
I was about five minutes into the audiobook. Some mummy-mafia/schoolgate nonsense of the kind I diligently dodge. Brow furrowed, I pressed stop and Googled the title. Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies…
8am and my home phone rings. Two months ago now. Landline calls come in only two varieties. Shills or people looking to purchase tents. The latter group are after Paddy Pallin, purveyor of camping consumables…
Among Donald Trump’s recent lunatic splutterings were some notably venomous comments about Fox journalist Megan Kelly. America’s favourite madman accused her of having “blood coming out of her whatever…
As someone who spends a good chunk of time happily consuming, and writing about pop culture, there are occasions – rare, but jarring – when something becomes popular, becomes a juggernaut, and I’m left…
Whenever corpse desecration comes up in conversation - not a totally infrequent occurrence - my Dad’s position is that he doesn’t really care what happens to his body after he dies. That perverse experiments…
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