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Mila Kunis on Ellen
While I was sitting in an empty hospital room, waiting for my husband’s return from his surgery – I turned on the TV and I stumbled upon Ellen. I have to say, that although I don’t really watch the...
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Question #147: Why do even bother with the magic of Christmas?
I’ll be brief. This petition has come up and it’s important you sign it. It’s to the Advertising Standards Board: Stop Sex Industry Billboards Outside Schools This is the billboard: So – not only did...
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The fine line. A chat with teens.
In my Drama class recently – boys and girls aged approx. 16 – we were discussing Absurd Theatre. This type of theatre looks at the existentialist view that we are born from nothing; live a fairly...
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Such a rewarding day. Totally chuffed.
On Friday, the last day of term, my colleague and I ran a workshop with our Yr 10 and 11 girl students (aged 15-17 yrs old). We looked at the objectification of girls and women through the media and...
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Respect #2
I stumbled upon this video. A girl auditioning on one of the X Factor shows late last year. In light of what I discussed in my previous post, I thought I’d share it. I feel that the girl in this clip...
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Women are the supply; Men are the demand.
Here in Australia we have a t-shirt company named Nena & Pasadena. The t-shirts they sell show degrading images of women – generally with their faces cut out of the image so that their value only...
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First game: Two unjust casualties.
In the play, Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, a corrupt character named Peachum starts his first stint on stage by looking directly at the audience and declaring the lines: “Awake, you sinners,...
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Facebook is evil
*** Warning – pornographic images from Facebook are used in this post. I know – we all know – that Facebook is evil, but I feel a line has been crossed with their ‘Community Standards’ practices and...
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I’m shouting out a: Cooo-eeeee !!
For those who aren’t Aussie, ‘Cooee’ is a loud call which is used when one is lost – generally in The Bush; nature (although my husband and I did use it with our girls when we were overseas, as our...
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One need only to look into a mirror.
Today a good friend of mine ripped out the article from her local Inner West newspaper and sent it to me. It echoes an article I shared last night on social media, about the fact that Wicked Campers is...
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