Hello and welcome to round 5. Stephanie certainly did not get mocked for referring to a match as a bout on Friday evening and Liz is resigning herself to crowds.
[book] The Sea is Ours: Tales From Steampunk Southeast Asia
Today we have a guest review from Friend of No Award Rivqa, who is reviewing The Sea is Ours: Tales From Steampunk Southeast Asia, eds Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng. Rosarium Publishing, 2015.
Stephanie was approached by Rosarium Publishing to review The Sea is Ours, then after she said yes palmed it off on Rivqa on the grounds that Steph is friends with both Jaymee and Joyce and it’s probably not super appropriate.
Some editorial comments from Steph remain, cos she’s Southeast Asian and Rivqa isn’t.
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those great whites, they have big links
For once, we had this week’s song chosen more than five minutes before the post went live … and then Lorde released her new song, and it’s about sharks.
(It mentions sharks once.)
(The shark is a metaphor.)
exorcising the ghosts (of colonies past)
Stephanie would like to talk to you about ghosts. Beneath the fold she uses words like ‘decolonise’, ‘ritual’, and ‘read the Koran to keep the ghosts away in a video game’.
Activism for Aussies: penalty rates
Last Thursday, the Fair Work Commission announced a cut to Sunday penalty rates for the retail, pharmacy and hospitality industries. Casual workers are unaffected, but full- and part-time employees in those areas will see their Sunday and public holiday pay drop.
News.com.au has an outline of who is affected and how.
Below the cut: more information, and action points.
aflw round four
In AFLW round four, Liz keeps lamenting about having to learn what loss feels like, Stephanie complains again about the Dockers travelling every week, and we offer you some more reading.
I like your old links better than your new links
Have we done this song before? Doesn’t matter, it’s a classic.
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Activism for Aussies: Homeless in Melbourne
This week, we’re talking about the Homeless Ban in the City of Melbourne, where a proposal has been put forward to basically ban people from sleeping in the CBD. It’s an ongoing part of Melbourne’s campaign against homeless people (rather than homelessness). Beneath the fold we’ve got further reading and some action points.
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aflw round three
This weekend, Liz and Steph stayed home due to finances and weather. This means that for the first time, they tackled (GET IT) the AFL live stream.
No Award goes to the movies: Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures tells the story of how African-American women helped put the United States in space. Margot Lee Shetterly’s book was optioned for film before it had even been published, so clearly I’m not the only person who was very excited by this concept. (Things I’m into: the space program; feminist history; the corners of history which are overlooked or obscured.)
I loved the book a lot, and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie when I saw it on Friday. It was a lovely portrayal of excellence in the face of oppression, of female friendship, and of some of the nuances of racism as expressed by middle class white women. And, of course, SPACE.
But the second I saw a Tumblr review promising it had no white saviours, I knew it would have a white saviour. And I was right.
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