Being an incomplete list of the paper cuts and small indignities the bakers have suffered on the 2016 season of the Great British Bake Off, as documented by Stephanie.
Category: racism
This Again: “Asian Flavours” in SFF
It was a big weekend, and Liz and Steph were pretty distracted by the AFLGF (and also Steph had a busy Singapore weekend), so somehow we managed to miss the theme of Canberra’s SFF con, Conflux, this year with three white guests:
Three white guests, and the theme ‘Red Fire Monkey.’
Liz liveblogs Joe Cinque’s Consolation
Or, Old White Lady Goes To Court For The Very First Time. Being a record of thoughts, quotes, headdesk moments and more as I read Helen Garner’s book.
Previously: Liz goes to the movies: Joe Cinque’s Consolation.
Content warnings: abuse, murder, eating disorders, ableism, sexism, racism.
arts, representation, and you(r local brown peeps)
Put a brown person in there.
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above the links
Did you know that most of our linkspam titles come from Oz music lyrics? Trying out this new thing where we share the source.
Onto the links!
linkspam rock
This is two weeks because Liz didn’t post this last week; she was too busy having fun in the world (legit).
swinging dead cats and the narrative of refugees
Let’s talk about the dead cats that Peter Dutton has been swinging; a form of politics that we as Australians should understand, because it’s how this election will go down.
Also remember you have until 8pm/2000 TODAY, Monday 23 May, to be enrolled or you can’t vote this election! Not sure if this is AEST or AWST, but WHY WAIT?! AEC Website now please and thank you. Then come back here for dead cat swinging.
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white flight, australian schools, everything is terrible
Australian schools are suffering from white flight fed by some racist shit, and it is awful and holding us all back, and also I’m probably a genius based on a Buzzfeed article.
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the unbearable lightness of the racism in our country
The daily reality of living in Australia is the institutional racism that imbues every level of our government provided services. This impacts many of us, but those who are most impacted are Indigenous Australians, and it is some fucking bullshit. Today at No Award: some reading, and a request that you donate to Girl Academy, which empowers young Indigenous mums.
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taking up room in con spaces
Today we’re talking about cons, whiteness, racism in fandom, and that time a white American splained at Steph about colonialism in South East Asia, a place she is actually from.
Contains lots of swears because it’s that kind of topic and day.
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