What’s the deal with feminist art?
“Feminism, as an art movement is over. All the issues of feminism have been solved”, said a classmate in one of my lectures once.
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The sisterhood of the racist travelling jacket
By Walter Plinge This week Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei played the race card, accusing Corrections Minister Anne Tolley of a thinly veiled racist attack against her for mentioning the cost of her designer jacket.
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A letter to Minister Anne Tolley and Ray Smith, CEO of the Dept of Corrections
In light of news I found in today’s Unheralded Stuff concerning Serco, I have emailed the following to the Minister for Corrections and the CEO of the Dept of Corrections.
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Unheralded Stuff: 31 January 2014
So if you’re all done reading the myriad articles on Lorde, including our own Jonny Potts’ thinkpiece then you must be thirsting for something of actual news-value. Well we have just the death, destruction and disaster for you. It’s time for Unheralded Stuff.
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Thinkpiece about Lorde
By Jonny Potts Hi, I saw all the debate about Kiwi songstress Lorde, and I thought I’d wade in.
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How’s yer nation?
So we’ve had three states of the nation in the last week. Three. And really they weren’t states of the nation were they?
Read MoreUnheralded Stuff: 27 January 2014
As New Zealanders have their eyes on either Lorde’s state of the nation speech or David Cunliffe’s performance at the grammys we take a look around the rest of the world and see what’s going on.
Read MoreUnheralded Stuff: 23 January 2014
Once more the world sections of Stuff.co.nz and the Herald have been fairly comprehensive. Good job guys. This has also been a learning curve for me, I’ve learned a lot of things that are going on in the world. And they’re quite shit for the most part. Lucky I am able to laugh at the worst we have to offer.
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The terrible, terrible future of consumer tech
We, the consumer class, are about to enter the most self-absorbed period yet. Which is really saying something considering the late 1990s era of reality TV where ‘everyone can to be famous and should want to be’ and the social media/blog generation of the 2000s where ‘everyone wants to know what I’m thinking at all times’ (a somewhat self-defeating phenomenon to blog about).
Read MoreUnheralded Stuff: 21 January 2014
I’ve noticed an improvement in the calibre of the world news on both Stuff.co.nz and the Herald. So well done. Long may it continue.
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How soon is too soon?
Comedy is tragedy plus time they say. Who is they? People. Don’t ask awkward questions.*
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Sexy times at CES
The largest nerd fest in the world, the Consumer Electronics Expo has wrapped in Vegas for 2014 and Tim Batt has chosen four key popular tech areas and the stand out product/service from each category to look out for this year.
Read MoreUnheralded stuff: 15 January 2014
So there’s been some pretty massive news overnight about the war on drugs. And I’ve done a site search on both Stuff.co.nz and nzherald.co.nz and neither outfit is covering it.
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It’s an OK world after all
The other night I was watching a discussion between sage-like knicker machinists Sean and Julie of Coronation Street. Julie, who is pregnant, was concerned about the world she was bringing her unborn baby into. This is said often. “What kind of world am I bringing my children into?”
Read MoreUnheralded stuff: 14 January
A day after Hollywood started its annual circle-jerk season, and Tina Fey casually got super racist (was no-one else uncomfortable with her ‘blacklist’ gag?) we’re back to other things that I’ve found.
Read MoreUnheralded stuff: 13 January
As New Zealand news media salivate over the wedding of David Bain and the convicted killer in his bridal party, other things happened in the world. Here’s a snapshot of the things I’ve noticed.
Read MoreUnheralded stuff: 8 January 2014
Here’s a collection of links to stories I haven’t noticed on Stuff or the Herald. Most of it is depressing because hey, we live in a depressing world. But there we go.
Read MoreUnHeralded Stuff: 7 January 2014
Here’s a collection of links to stories I haven’t noticed on Stuff or the Herald. Most of it is depressing because hey, we live in a depressing world. But there we go.
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