That Robyn Loau didn’t go on to a long, successful career is one of the great injustices of Australian music.
Month: April 2017
on forgetting
I’ve spent more years of my life than not going to the Anzac Day Dawn Service.
White foodie bingo
Stephanie discovered an amazing cafe in my area the other day, and when I googled it, one of the first results was A Certain Local Food Blog I Sometimes Like To Hateread.
And so this bingo card was born: things white foodies say about ~ethnic~ restaurants and cafes.
(We didn’t set out for this to be a week of food politics. We just really enjoy food, and also food politics.)
food, culture, and the personal instead of the political
On Friday, Steph went to a symposium on the urban politics of food. How on brand! Today she’s talking about some of the main themes (food as diversity, labelling as tool of racism, urban planning) and her feelings about them.
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Shark in the loo
This week’s Doctor Who episode (Liz liked it a lot! Especially Bill “greatest companion since the last one you really loved” Potts!) has a beat where the Doctor clears out a Sydney cafe by emerging from the toilets and shouting, “Shark attack!” For plot reasons, obviously.
But it’s frankly ridiculous that this ploy would work, so here are a couple of short listicles.
Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies is a bestselling 2014 novel by Australian author Liane Moriarty. It’s also a 2017 HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, which has sparked some interesting conversations about the value of women’s stories.
Commercial fiction isn’t a genre I usually read, but I was intrigued by the buzz around the TV show, so I bought the book, inhaled it and adored it, and then watched the TV series, about which I had/am having very mixed feelings.
[book] around india in 80 trains
As you know, I’m reading a bunch of travelogues by non-white travelers because travel is for brown people too. Today’s book review is of Around India in 80 Trains, by Monisha Rajesh. It’s exactly what it sounds like, by a member of the Indian diaspora.
Media We’re Excited To Consume A/W Edition
Some media we want to put into our brains.
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EOI: Occasional Modern Fiction Correspondent
Hello, Quokkas! Liz and I have identified a deficiency in our site that we’d like to rectify.
We are looking for an occasional modern and/or romance fiction correspondent. Please apply within.
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