Our #auscore aesthetic just got that much more meta.
Sisters sacked by Channel Seven after lodging sexual harassment complaint
Pokémon GO, Ingress and Niantic: A Tale of Developer Apathy Ruining Massive Potential
Steph flipped her shit at this: Urban Camo: Bus & Train Fabrics Turned into Wearable Textiles
Steph super loves seeing how gendered languages deal with stuff: A camp tries to reinvent the Hebrew language, so transgender kids can fit in
Elizabeth Fitzgerald offers up a list of 50 Australian women writing SFF.
Some USA Olympic athlete claimed he was robbed at gunpoint in Rio, but security footage shows him kicking in the doors at places. Anyway, about that: Ryan Lochte Is One of Many Privileged First-World Tourists—and Brazilians Are Fed Up
while people in Brazil are very quick to criticize the Olympics, they frankly don’t want to hear it from people whose main complaints are not about that displacement, corruption, or militarization but instead are about the tourist experience.
[Liz notes: but Tumblr assured me that Brazil’s opening ceremony was the most progressive and inclusive ever, and that means it’s a utopian paradise!]
Modern China is so crazy it needs a new literary genre
By Cate: Kitchen Table Activism: How to Host a Letter-Writing Party